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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) \u2013 Top-seeded Georgia Tech slugged its way into the championship game Saturday afternoon, blasting three two-run home runs and riding a strong pitching effort to a 9-3 win over No. 5 seed Miami in the semifinals of the 2026 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Championship at Truist Field in Charlotte, North Carolina.<\/p>\n
With the victory, the Yellow Jackets advance to Sunday\u2019s ACC Championship Game, where they will face the winner of No. 2 seed North Carolina and No. 14 seed Pitt at noon ET on ESPN2.<\/p>\n
Third baseman Ryan Zuckerman powered the Georgia Tech offense, finishing 4-for-5 with two home runs, a double, four RBIs and two runs scored. Catcher Vahn Lackey also delivered a big swing, launching a two-run homer while adding two walks, two RBIs and three runs scored.<\/p>\n
Georgia Tech wasted little time taking control, erupting for a 6-0 lead behind Lackey\u2019s first-inning blast and a pair of two-run home runs from Zuckerman in the third and fourth innings. The Yellow Jackets added another run in the fifth to stretch the advantage to 7-0 before Miami finally broke through in the sixth.<\/p>\n
Vance Sheahan sparked the Hurricanes with an RBI double \u2014 Miami\u2019s lone extra-base hit of the afternoon \u2014 and later scored on a wild pitch to cut the deficit to 7-2. Six different Hurricanes recorded a hit as Miami finished with nine base knocks in the loss.<\/p>\n
On the mound, Georgia Tech starter Jackson Blakely improved to 8-1 after limiting Miami to two runs on seven hits over 5.2 innings. The right-hander walked one and struck out three before turning it over to the bullpen, which held the Hurricanes to just one run over the final 3.1 innings.<\/p>\n
The Yellow Jackets continued to tack on insurance runs in the sixth and seventh innings, while Miami added a final run in the eighth as Georgia Tech closed out the 9-3 victory and punched its ticket to Sunday\u2019s title game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Story Links CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) \u2013 Top-seeded Georgia Tech slugged its way into the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-282227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282227","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=282227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}