No. 3 Virginia won its second game in as many days, defeating No. 2 North Carolina 1-0 last night in the second matchup of the ACC field hockey semifinals.

During the longest and most productive half-inning of the season, the Cavaliers sent 15 batters to the plate, terrorized a future client of super-agent Scott Boras and watched every player in the batting order cross the plate.

With a 10-run inning fueling the charge, sixth-seeded Virginia whipped No. 2 North Carolina 11-1 at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park.

A pitch that had vanished from Andrew Carraway’s arsenal became an ace up his sleeve Thursday night.

Sixth-seeded Virginia mounted a late-game rally to upset third-seeded Clemson, 6-5, in the team’s opening game in the ACC baseball tournament.

Mickey Wiswall drove in five runs with a pair of home runs and a double as Boston College took a 7-3 victory over Georgia Tech in the ACC tournament.

It will, in fact, be Packer that takes the ball in Virginia’s long-awaited opener in the ACC tournament against Clemson (39-11, 19-11 ACC) on Thursday at 8 p.m. at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park in North Carolina.

Maryland stayed undefeated and advanced to the ACC championship game with a 15-7 victory in the tournament semifinals, pulling away after the break to leave Virginia perilously close to missing out on an NCAA tournament berth.

Duke continued its mastery of Virginia with a 16-5 win over the Cavaliers in the semifinals of the ACC tournament at Kenan Stadium.

The Cavaliers women’s lacrosse team made short work of Virginia Tech on Thursday in the quarterfinals of the ACC tournament, jumping out to a six-goal halftime lead en route to a 13-5 victory.

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After a regular season that didn’t meet the expectations of a talent-laden squad, the fourth-seeded Cavaliers (10-6) get a chance to make those missteps a distant memory, beginning with a quarterfinal matchup with Virginia Tech today at 1 p.m. in Blacksburg.

In the first round of the ACC tournament on Thursday night, No. 11 seed Virginia wrapped up its worst season in over four decades, losing to No. 6 Boston College, 76-63, in front of a crowd of 26,352.

Virginia Tech, the No. 8 seed, completely took the first-team all-ACC selection out of his game, easily defeating the No. 9 Hurricanes, 65-47, in the first round of the ACC tournament.

Instead, upset-minded Georgia Tech dominated play in the lane and stunned Clemson 86-81. It was the third time in the last four years that the No. 12 seed had scored an opening-round upset in this tournament.