Conference play can be a very humbling time during a college baseball season, and Virginia Tech found that out this weekend at home. After winning their last three conference series over Louisville, Wake Forest, and Notre Dame, with the series win in the middle two weekends ago against the Demon Deacons being a three-game sweep, the Hokies were looking for another statement series win this weekend.
Ranked 25th by D1Baseball entering the series against No. 9 Florida State, Virginia Tech had Friday night's game postponed leaving the series to be played with a doubleheader on Saturday and a single game on Sunday. Regardless of how the series played out schedule-wise, it was as bad of a weekend as Virginia Tech could have had. They were swept, 3-1 and 12-1 on Saturday before taking the final game on Sunday.
Things couldn't have started better on Sunday for the Hokies when Jared Davis walked and went to third base on a Ben Watson single. Sam Tackett plated Davis with a sac-fly and Virginia Tech loaded the bases, but failed to push another run across which proved to be costly.
Florida State scored the next four runs for a 4-1 lead until a Davis RBI ground out in the bottom of the seventh play to cut the deficit to 4-2, but that was as close the Hokies would get, ending a frustrating weekend on the diamond. Four runs in 27 innings aren't going to win many, if any, games.
After being swept in the doubleheader on Saturday at English Field, the Hokies grabbed their only leadof the series early in Game 3 on Sunday, but squandered scoring chances in a loss that complete a Seminoles sweep. With the three losses, Virginia Tech falls to 23-13 overall and 9-9 in the ACC.
Virginia Tech will host East Tennessee State University on Tuesday night at 5 o'clock before hosting another Top 25 ACC foe, North Carolina, next weekend on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.