Georgia pulled off an impressive eighth inning rally to take a 1-0 lead in the College World Series final.

The Hurricanes were the latest team eliminated in Omaha, leaving North Carolina as the lone ACC team still alive.

Both were taken in the 9th round of the MLB draft

Jacob Thompson could hear his younger brother scream from inside their Dry Fork house. From that point, the weight was off his shoulders. 

The Flames got a huge boost from former Tunstall High School standout Jeff Jefferson, who went 4-for-5 with three RBIs and two runs scored

When American Legion Post 325 finished playing last summer, Reggie Keen figured he’d likely never play again at Dan Daniel Park, a field where he participated countless legion and high school games.  Keen, however, added a few more at his hometown field as his Radford Highlanders beat Charleston Southern 6-1 in the opening round of the Big South Conference tournament.

David Stokes has gone from serviceable starter to dominant staff ace.

“We are doing a little push for the postseason thing,” explained Virginia pitcher Pat McAnaney. “We are just trying something to get everybody fired up.”

It was Virginia’s second straight rally and helped the program avoid back-to-back losses against VMI (26-23) for the first time in 47 years

DCC, which lost to Patrick Henry on the first day of the tournament and clawed its way back through the losers’ bracket to face Rappahannock (27-4), would have needed to defeat the Gulls twice to claim the title

Ronnie LaBrie has spent the spring crushing Old Dominion Athletic Conference pitchers. Thursday, he spent part of the first inning destroying an aluminum bat. 

“We really needed that win,” said Virginia coach Brian O’Connor. “There were guys that didn’t get the job done at times, but there were guys there to pick them up in this game.”

The slurve broke low Sunday against VMI, and the Keydets spent most of the afternoon flailing helplessly at it. Page threw his first complete game since the shutout in 2005, scattering seven hits and striking out eight as the Flames beat VMI 6-1 to win the rubber match of the three-game series.

Jake Loye drove in both Averett (14-21) runs with a home run in the fourth inning.  Averett now falls into the losers bracket.

Miami is ranked No. 1 in the USA Today/ESPN poll, FSU No. 2. The Seminoles are No. 1 in the Collegiate Baseball poll, followed by Miami. 

Wednesday, of course, wasn’t just another day as far as the Virginia Tech community was concerned. Or the Liberty community, for that matter. LU students and Lynchburg residents came out in force to support the Hokies on the one-year anniversary of the worst campus shooting in American history. Many of the 1,763 in attendance donned Tech’s colors in a show of support for the school’s athletes. 

VMI blames too much rain over the past few days making the field unplayable

Thanks to stellar middle-relief pitching from sophomore Neal Davis and Patrick Wingfield’s first RBI and later his third run scored of the season, Virginia used a rally to upend Towson, 9-8, just six days after an ugly non-conference loss to George Washington.

Brian O’Connor has 200 and counting.  O’Connor wrapped up his 200th victory at Virginia when the Cavaliers wrapped up a three-game series sweep of Virginia Tech Sunday afternoon with a 2-1 victory over the Hokies.

Wytheville Community College has begun the process of developing an athletic program, highlighted so far by the burgeoning baseball team.

The Hokies battled the Yankees today in what amounts to any baseball players dream, but it certainly was a trip that had more meaning than your average diamond contest.

Facing the likes of perennial all-stars Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez would phase just about anyone.  So it’s no surprise that the Hokies didn’t score a run against the Bronx bombers.  But in the end, the score didn’t really matter.

The Bronx Bombers are coming to Blacksburg tomorrow. They’ll use baseball to help the Hokie Nation heal, and continue to pledge their support.

Ferrum’s three-run third inning helped the Panthers swat Averett 9-2 on Sunday.

Virginia finished off a four-game sweep of Lehigh yesterday with a 6-1 win in Game 2 of a doubleheader.

Friday nights mean star right-hander Jacob Thompson is toeing the rubber, and there’s no more reassuring notion than that

After yet another clutch play by the indomitable Sean Singletary, Virginia desperately needed to foul last night. Alas, there wasn’t a Tar Heel around.