{"id":263021,"date":"2026-05-08T04:18:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/263021\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T04:18:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:18:23","slug":"no-9-seed-tech-falls-to-no-1-seed-florida-state-in-acc-quarterfinals-softball-georgia-tech-yellow-jackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/263021\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 9 Seed Tech Falls to No. 1 Seed Florida State in ACC Quarterfinals \u2013 Softball \u2014 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. \u2013 No. 9 seed Georgia Tech softball (30-26, 10-14 ACC) saw its ACC postseason play come to a close as it fell 2-1 to No. 1 seed Florida State (47-8, 21-3 ACC) during the Quarterfinals of the 2026 ACC Softball Championship.<\/p>\n<p>QUICK HITS<\/p>\n<p>Sydnie Watts\u00a0made her 15th\u00a0start, 24th\u00a0appearance, in the circle on Thursday morning. She finished the Quarterfinal game facing 27 batters across 6.0 innings pitched.Raegan Wall led Tech\u2019s offense on Thursday with one triple, one run scored and three total bases.Holly Medina and Addison Leschber also contributed to the Yellow Jacket\u2019s three hit total in the Quarterfinals. \u00a0Medina recorded her second sac fly of the season during the top half of the third inning to help Wall safely get home.Tech\u2019s first round win makes it one of two ACC teams to have won at least one game in each of the last seven seasons, with the other being FSU.Tech once again held Florida State to one of its tightest games of the season and is the only unranked team to keep the Seminoles within one run this season.<\/p>\n<p>HOW IT HAPPENED<\/p>\n<p>Wall was off to a hot start as she slammed a triple to right center before getting Tech on the board off Medina\u2019s sac fly in the top of the third.FSU responded with one run on two hits in the bottom of the third but was sat down quickly after, with two Seminoles left on base at the end of the inning.Florida State scored its second run of the game in the bottom of the fifth after the Seminoles\u2019 batter was hit by pitch, advancing the already loaded bases.<\/p>\n<p>UP NEXT<br \/>The Yellow Jackets will await their fate in the NCAA Tournament Selection show on Sunday, May 10, at 7 p.m. on ESPN2.<\/p>\n<p>Full Steam Ahead<\/p>\n<p>Full Steam Ahead is a $500 million fundraising initiative to achieve Georgia Tech athletics\u2019 goal of competing for championships at the highest level in the next era of intercollegiate athletics. The initiative will fund transformative projects for Tech athletics, including renovations of Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field (the historic home of Georgia Tech football), the Zelnak Basketball Center (the practice and training facility for Tech basketball) and O\u2019Keefe Gymnasium (the venerable home of Yellow Jackets volleyball), as well as additional projects and initiatives to further advance Georgia Tech athletics through program wide-operational support. All members of the Georgia Tech community are invited to visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atfund.org\/full-steam-ahead\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">atfund.org\/FullSteamAhead<\/a>\u00a0for full details and renderings of the renovation projects, as well as to learn about opportunities to contribute online.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest information on the Georgia Tech softball team, follow us on\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GaTechSoftball\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter (@GaTechSoftball)<\/a>,\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gatechsoftball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>,\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gatechsoftball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram (@GaTechsoftball<\/a>) or visit us at\u202f<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ramblinwreck.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.ramblinwreck.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>   <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. \u2013 No. 9 seed Georgia Tech softball (30-26, 10-14 ACC) saw its ACC postseason play come&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4028,75146,100116,100117,589,28,30,29,100118,10086,100119,11785,4683,11786,11784,11781,100120,11782,11783,13769,100121,100122,100123,100124,75148,11789,11787,100125,11790,9248,13086,11791,100126,75149,20535,11788],"class_list":["post-263021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-acc","tag-aileen-morales","tag-atlanta-softball","tag-buzz-classic","tag-featured","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-georgia-softball","tag-georgia-tech-football","tag-georgia-tech-softball","tag-georgia-tech-sports","tag-georgia-tech-yellow-jackets","tag-georgia-tech-yellow-jackets-news","tag-georgia-tech-yellow-jackets-sports","tag-georgia-tech-yellow-jackets-tickets","tag-gracyn-tucker","tag-gt","tag-gt-tickets","tag-headlines","tag-jayden-gailey","tag-kenley-hilleary","tag-madalyn-johnson","tag-mewborn-field","tag-ncaa-softball","tag-official-gear-georgia-tech-yellow-jackets","tag-official-georgia-tech-yellow-jackets-sports","tag-reese-hunter","tag-schedules","tag-scores","tag-softball","tag-stats","tag-sydnie-watts","tag-tech-softball","tag-yellow-jackets","tag-yellow-jackets-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}