HUGE doubleheader for Pack Nine today

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Heading into this weekend CollegeBaseballInsider.com framed the race for NCAA Tournament slots as follows:

ACC (7) – The big news here this week was NC State (11-13, 28-21, RPI 33) dropping two of three to ETSU out of the A-Sun, but the Wolfpack didn’t drop too much in RPI. But this weekend’s series with FSU now is even bigger than it was. Virginia (20-4, 43-5, RPI 1), Georgia Tech (18-6, 35-14, RPI 9), Florida State (16-8, 37-12, RPI 4), Miami (16-7, 31-16, RPI 22), North Carolina (16-8, 39-10, RPI 3) and Clemson (13-11, 34-15, RPI 8) are good to go, some of whom will be national seeds.

Unfortunately, the Wolfpack started the important weekend by losing to the Seminoles, 9-4.

Rafael Lopez homered in each of the first two innings, and sixth-ranked Florida State broke open a 3-2 game with six runs in the late innings to defeat NC State 9-4 in the first game of a three-game ACC series at Doak Field at Dail Park.

The Wolfpack falls to 28-22 overall with the loss, and 11-14 in the conference. The Seminoles improve to 38-12 overall and 17-8 in the conference.

Due to inclement weather on Saturday evening, the Wolfpack and Seminoles will play a doubleheader today. A HUGE doubleheader for NC State…and perhaps Elliot Avent’s future.

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10 Responses to HUGE doubleheader for Pack Nine today

  1. Dr. BadgerPack 05/15/2011 at 11:22 AM #

    We’ve had some bad double-header situations in the past several seasons… this one actually plays into our favor. Playing a double-header helps the inferior team a bit, and- no matter whether you think the margin is large or small- FSU is better this year.

    I would throw Mazzoni in the second game… let’s see what happens.

  2. Dr. BadgerPack 05/15/2011 at 11:54 AM #

    Mazzoni gets the ball in game 1… Avent is playing to try and win 2. Wow.

  3. packalum44 05/15/2011 at 12:55 PM #

    Scotty McCreery sighting? Did he come back to throw the first pitch or did they fly him back to Hollywood already I wonder??

  4. Bowlpack 05/15/2011 at 1:13 PM #

    Pitcher’s duel going in Game 1. 1-1 in the bottom of the 5th. We have a chance to blow it open, though. State has a man on 3rd and one on 1st with 1 out.

  5. Bowlpack 05/15/2011 at 1:13 PM #

    Double play. Rats!

  6. Bowlpack 05/15/2011 at 1:15 PM #

    You can follow here:

    http://www.d1baseball.com/daily/today.htm

  7. mikeD 05/15/2011 at 3:24 PM #

    ^ Or you could follow the game on CBS gametracker through the gopack website.

    The double play was a huge bummer. Shake it off boys!

  8. blpack 05/15/2011 at 4:15 PM #

    Didn’t get game one today. On to game 2 in a must win situation.

  9. wolfonthehill 05/15/2011 at 5:32 PM #

    Up 5-2 after six in the first one & couldn’t hold on.

    Now up 5-2 after five in the second one… we’ll see…

  10. StateFans 05/16/2011 at 8:16 AM #

    Won the second game. So, went 1-2 over the weekend. I fear we are going to have a solid enough RPI with way too ugly of a record.

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