U-Va. Will Face Miami in ACC Baseball Tournament Final
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Jemile Weeks hit a three-run homer and Enrique Garcia threw seven scoreless innings to lead top-seeded Miami into the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game with a 5-2 victory over North Carolina State in Jacksonville, Fla., yesterday.
The Hurricanes (46-8) will play Virginia at 1 p.m. today. Miami swept the regular season series from the Cavaliers 3-0 at home and has a four-game winning streak against the Cavaliers.
Miami outscored its opponents 27-15 in going 3-0 in Division A round-robin play at the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville.
Virginia, the only 2-0 team in Division B of the round-robin format, clinched a spot in the title game Friday by beating second-seeded Florida State, 5-3. The Cavaliers (38-20) lost to Wake Forest, 7-4, late last night in a game that meant little to Virginia.
Weeks broke a scoreless tie with his two-out homer in the third. The Hurricanes added two in the fourth on Dave DiNatale's RBI double and Jason Hagert y's run-scoring single.
N.C. State (38-20) scored two in the eighth on an RBI single by Matt Payne and a bases-loaded walk drawn by Marcus Jones.
ยท TENNIS: Agnieszka Radwanska beat top-seeded Elena Dementieva of Russia, 6-3, 6-2, to win the Istanbul Cup and become the first Polish woman to surpass $1 million in career earnings on the WTA Tour.
The No. 2-seeded Radwanska earned $30,500 for her third career title and gained momentum heading into the French Open after having been eliminated in the round of 16 at all four of her previous clay-court tournaments this year.
Dementieva, the defending champion ranked seventh in the world, led 2-0 and 40-15 in the first set before Radwanska rallied to win 11 of the next 13 games.
"In the warmup I couldn't put the ball in the court because I was so nervous, so the first few games were more like my warmup," Radwanska said. "Then I started playing my game and being more aggressive. After winning the first set I won the first few games of the second set and things got better, and I did it."
