MIAMI –\u00a0 Boston College Baseball (8-5, 1-0 ACC) defeated Miami (10-3, 0-1 ACC) on Friday night, 8-7, to open up ACC play.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A.J. Colarusso<\/a> started for the Eagles and went three innings with two strikeouts, while giving up five earned runs. He was replaced by Cesar Gonzalez<\/a>, who went another three while matching his career high in strikeouts with six. Chase Hartsell<\/a> and John Kwiatkowski<\/a> combined to get Boston College to the ninth inning, and that is when Sean Hard<\/a> took over. Hard pitching three innings of scoreless ball, only allowing one hit while striking out two.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Hurricanes got the scoring started right away when a single to left brought in two runs, making it 2-0 after one inning.\u00a0<\/p>\n Miami would make it 5-0 after two when they launched a three-run homer to deep center field.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Eagles cut into the deficit at the top of the third inning when Ty Mainolfi<\/a> launched a double down the left field line, which helped bring in Owen DeShazo<\/a> from second to make it 5-1 in favor of the Hurricanes. The next at-bat, then, saw Nick Wang<\/a> launch his fourth home run of the season to cut the deficit to 5-4.\u00a0<\/p>\n Miami would push the lead back to two in the bottom of the third, when a single to right field brought in a run.\u00a0<\/p>\n The game settled down after that as both pitchers settled into the game until the bottom of the seventh when the Hurricanes drove a single to center to bring a runner in from second.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Eagles returned the deficit to two runs when Wang hit a sacrifice fly to left field, which allowed Julio Solier<\/a> to score from third.\u00a0<\/p>\n Boston College got two more runs in the top of the ninth when the Eagles put runners on first and second before Luke Gallo<\/a> drove in a run on a single to right field. Kyle Wolff<\/a> then hit a sacrifice fly to right field, which tied the game up at seven.\u00a0<\/p>\n In the bottom of the ninth inning, Hard retired the first two batters he faced before allowing a single. He then struck out the final batter to force extra innings.<\/p>\n In the tenth, the Eagles went quickly, and after Hard walked, his first batter was aided by a double play from Gallo to help him out of the inning.\u00a0<\/p>\n