CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The No. 7 Florida State baseball team won the series at No. 10 Virginia with a 9-3 victory early on Saturday at Davenport Field at Disharoon Park in Charlottesville, Virginia.
 
The Seminoles (24-7, 9-3 ACC) have won all four ACC series to begin the season, with three of them against top-12 opponents and two coming on the road, both against ranked foes. The win over the Cavaliers (24-9, 8-7 ACC) comes after FSU swept No. 12 Wake Forest on the road and won home series vs. No. 10 NC State and Duke. The team is now 7-2 in true road games and 7-4 vs. ranked teams, with all but three of those games coming away from home.
 
Florida State earned its first series win at a top-10 teams since taking two-of-three at No. 6 Duke in 2024, though that also was the last time FSU played at a top-10 squad.
 
In Saturday’s series-clinching win, the Seminoles scored its nine runs on 12 hits, both the most by either team in the three-game set. All but one starter had a hit and four players had multiple hits. Three drove in two runs.
 
Saturday’s win was fueled by a dominant start from junior right-hander Bryson Moore, who earned the win to improve to 5-1. In a career-best 7.0 innings, he did not allow a run on two hits with a career-high-tying seven strikeouts and one walk. Moore pitched into the seventh for the first time in his career and did not allow a run for the second time this season. His one walk ties a career low when pitching more than 3.0 innings. The middle of McCulley’s outing featured 13 in a row retired and the fourth inning where he struck out the side.
 
Junior third baseman Cal Fisher became the second Seminole to hit his first home run of the season this weekend, with a two-run shot in the second inning to get the offense going. He had two hits, two RBI and three runs scored in the Saturday victory. Senior shortstop Carter McCulley also had two hits and two RBI with one run.
 
FSU improves to 64-35 all-time against Virginia and 22-17 in Charlottesville.
 
Florida State took a 2-0 lead in the second inning on Fisher’s one-out home run just over the wall in left field. The two-run shot scored freshman designated hitter Kelvyn Paulino Jr., who led off the inning with a walk.
 
Moore allowed back-to-back leadoff singles in the bottom of the second, but a double play and a nice defensive play by McCulley on a groundout ended the threat and started Moore’s stretch of 13 consecutive retired.
 
FSU doubled its lead to 4-0 in the third, as sophomore catcher Hunter Carns doubled in the first run and redshirt senior Eli Putnam singled home Carns with two outs.
 
Moore struck out two in the bottom half and struck out the side in the fourth.
 
The Seminoles added another two in the fifth to make it 6-0. Both runs came with two outs, as McCulley singled in Paulino Jr. and junior left fielder Chase Williams doubled home Fisher.
 
The side was retired in order again in the bottom of the fifth by Moore, and while a runner reached on a two-out error in the sixth, he fielded a hard-hit ground ball that ricocheted off his cleat to end the inning.
 
Three runs crossed the plate in the seventh to extend the lead to 9-0. McCulley got the scoring started with a double down the left-field line that plated Fisher, and freshman right fielder John Stuetzer scored on a groundout. A sac fly brought home McCulley to cap the inning.
 
Moore’s final inning was a 1-2-3 seventh, throwing just seven pitches to retire the side.
 
Back-to-back leadoff home runs off the FSU bullpen made it 9-2 in the eighth, and one to lead off the ninth made it 9-3. Senior righty Gabe Nard then came in and got the final three outs, with a flyout to right ending the game and leaving two on
 
Florida State returns home for a nationally-televised matchup against in-state rival and No. 21-ranked Florida on Tuesday, April 7. First pitch on ESPN2 is at 7 p.m. ET. Tickets are sold out, but fans can purchase tickets on SeatGeek. Tickets remain for FSU students, and admission is free with their FSUID, with the student entrance at the right field gate at Haggard Plaza. All gates at Dick Howser Stadium will open 60 minutes prior to first pitch for every game in 2026.
 
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