ACC Baseball Tournament 2023: Tuesday Scores, Updated Bracket and Schedule
The 2023 ACC baseball tournament got underway on Tuesday with a tripleheader at Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, North Carolina.
While most conference tournaments use a double-elimination format, the ACC divides its teams into four groups of three for round-robin pool play. The winners of each pool advance to Saturday's semifinals.
Top-seeded Wake Forest, ranked No. 1 in the D1Baseball.com Top 25, isn't in action until Thursday, but Tuesday's slate still provided some exciting action.
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Here's a look at the results and upcoming schedule:
2023 ACC Tournament Pools
Pool A: No. 1 Wake Forest, No. 8 Notre Dame, No. 12 Pitt
Pool B: No. 2 Virginia, No. 7 North Carolina, No. 11 Georgia Tech
Pool C: No. 3 Clemson, No. 6 Boston College, No. 10 Virginia Tech
Pool D: No. 4 Miami, No. 5 Duke, No. 9 NC State
2023 ACC Tournament Results - Tuesday, May 23
No. 6 Boston College 11, No. 10 Virginia Tech 7
No. 7 North Carolina 11, No. 11 Georgia Tech 5
No. 9 NC State 8, No. 5 Duke 7
Wednesday, May 24
No. 12 Pitt vs. No. 8 Notre Dame, 11 a.m. ET
No. 2 Virginia vs. No. 11 Georgia Tech, 3 p.m. ET
No. 3 Clemson vs. No. 10 Virginia Tech, 7 p.m. ET
NC State 8, Duke 7
It took 11 innings, but NC State opened its ACC tournament with a win.
Cannon Peebles' RBI single in the top of the 11th led the Wolfpack to an 8-7 win on Tuesday night, ending a marathon contest in the process.
It looked like NC State might cruise in this one, building a 7-1 lead by the top of the third led by LuJames Groover III's first-inning blast.
But Duke rallied, chipping away at the lead until MJ Metz's dramatic, two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth tied the game and gave fans some free baseball.
But Logan Whitaker shut the door on Duke in extra innings, pitching two scoreless and hitless frames while giving up just one walk and striking out four.
That earned him the win after Peebles' clutch RBI and got the Wolfpack's ACC tournament off to a memorable start.
Boston College 11, Virginia Tech 7
The Eagles outlasted the Hokies in a back-and-forth battle to get the day started. Boston College fought back from multiple deficits to secure the win.
After Virginia Tech took a 3-0 lead, Joe Vetrano and Nick Wang each had two-run doubles in the third inning. The Hokies refused to go down easily, scoring three runs in the very next frame to retake the lead
In the sixth inning, Barry Walsh got the rally started with a solo home run, and Wang followed with a bases-clearing double to put the Eagles ahead for good. Walsh also made some great plays in center field, most notably robbing a potential home run in the third.
The Hokies managed to cut the deficit to one in the seventh, but Vetrano added some insurance runs with a two-run single. Cohl Mercado added an RBI double in the eighth to cap the scoring.
Virginia Tech will be back in action on Wednesday against Clemson, while Boston College will have a couple days off before taking on the Tigers on Friday.
North Carolina 11, Georgia Tech 5
The Tar Heels got the scoring going early against the Yellow Jackets and never looked back on their way to an easy win.
Tomas Frick got things started with an RBI single, and Patrick Alvarez followed with a two-run single to take a 3-0 lead in the first inning. When Georgia Tech cut the lead to 4-2, North Carolina posted three runs in the sixth inning to pull away.
A four-run eighth inning, sparked by Mac Horvath's solo home run, put the game away for the Tar Heels.
Georgia Tech will look to bounce back against Virginia on Wednesday, while North Carolina will wait until Thursday to play the Cavaliers.
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