Press Release: ACC Communications
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• With seven teams going unbeaten over the opening weekend, the ACC posted a combined 34-9 record against non-conference opposition. Four league teams posted shutout wins, and ACC squads scored at least 10 runs in a combined 17 games.
• ACC Player of the Week Nick Kurtz and Wake Forest teammate Adam Cecere tied for the NCAA Division I home run lead over opening weekend, as each hit four to key the Demon Deacons to a 4-0 start. Kurtz is tied for fourth nationally with 10 RBI and Virginia’s Jake Gelof drove in nine runs as the Cavaliers opened their season with three straight wins.
• Nine ACC teams enter week two of the 2023 season ranked in at least one major poll, with Louisville (Baseball America) and Wake Forest (Perfect Game) both as high as fourth.
• Clemson head coach Erik Bakich wasted no time recording a milestone win in his debut as the Tigers’ head coach. Saturday’s 3-2 victory over visiting Binghamton was the 400th of Bakich’s career. Bakich, who joined the Tigers following a successful stint at Michigan that included a berth in the 2019 College World Series finals, owns a career record of 401-313 in 13-plus collegiate seasons.
• The early returns also show Clemson’s Benjamin Blackwell ranking second in the nation in stolen bases after swiping six in seven attempts in the Tigers’ first three games.
• Wake Forest’s Kurtz was one of five ACC student-athletes named a National Player of the Week by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper, along with Demon Deacon reliever Sean Sullivan (the ACC Pitcher of the Week), Georgia Tech outfielder Jake DeLeo and starting pitchers Nick Parker of Virginia and Henry Weycker of Virginia Tech.
• Limited to just 30 games last season, Georgia Tech’s DeLeo made the most of his opening weekend back in the starting lineup. His three home runs in three wins over Miami (Ohio) gave him seven for his career and already more than he had in a single-season in 2021 or 2022.
• Virginia Tech’s home opener versus East Tennessee State on Tuesday will launch a homestand of 13 games at English Field at Atlantic Union Bank Park that will run through the Hokies’ ACC-opening series against Boston College (March 10-12).
• After devoting a record number of hours to preseason coverage and interviews Sirius XM ACC Radio plans play-by-play coverage of a number of regular season games in 2023. The schedule through the second weekend in March is as follows:
Tuesday, Feb. 21
4:00 – Virginia Tech vs ETSU
Wednesday. Feb. 22
4:00 – NC State vs Coastal Carolina
Friday, Feb. 24
2:00 – Virginia Tech vs Bryant
5:00 – UNC vs East Carolina
Friday, March 10
2:00 – Virginia Tech vs Boston College
Saturday, March 11
2:00 – North Carolina vs Virginia
Sunday, March 12
1:00 – Miami vs NC State
Upcoming ACC Schedule
Tuesday, Feb. 21
ETSU at Virginia Tech, 1:30 p.m.
Longwood at Virginia, 3 p.m.
Radford at North Carolina, 4 p.m.
Wake Forest at UNC Greensboro, 4 p.m.
Charlotte at Clemson, 4 p.m.
Stetson at Miami, 6 p.m.
Georgia Tech at Georgia Southern, 6 p.m.
Florida State at Jacksonville, 6 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 22
Xavier at Louisville, 3 p.m.
NC State at Coastal Carolina, 4 p.m.
Longwood at North Carolina, 4 p.m.
Liberty at Duke, 4 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 24
Boston College vs. Bucknell (at Charleston, S.C.), 11 a.m.
Pitt vs. Harvard (at Port Charles, Fla.), 1 p.m.
Bryant at Virginia Tech, 1 p.m.
Bowling Green at Louisville, 3 p.m.
Belmont at NC State, 3 p.m.
Columbia at Virginia, 3 p.m.
Baylor at Duke, 4 p.m.
Binghamton at Wake Forest, 4 p.m.
UCF at Clemson, 4 p.m.
Notre Dame at UNC Greensboro, 4 p.m.
Tennessee Tech at Georgia Tech, 4 p.m.
North Carolina at East Carolina, 5 p.m.
Dartmouth at Miami, 7 p.m.
Florida State at TCU, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 25
Pitt vs. Harvard (at Port Charles, Fla.), 11:30 p.m.
Boston College vs. Canisius (at Charleston, S.C.), Noon
Bryant at Virginia Tech, 1 p.m.
Bowling Green at Louisville, 1 p.m.
Columbia at Virginia, 1 p.m.
UCF at Clemson, 2 p.m.
North Carolina at East Carolina, 2 p.m.
Mt. St. Mary’s at Wake Forest, 2 p.m.
Belmont at NC State, 2 p.m.
Tennessee Tech at Georgia Tech, 2 p.m.
Notre Dame at UNC Greensboro, 4 p.m.
Pitt vs. Harvard (at Port Charles, Fla.), 2:30 p.m.
Baylor at Duke, 3 p.m.
Florida State at TCU, 3 p.m.
Towson at Wake Forest, 6 p.m.
Dartmouth at Miami, 7 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 26
Pitt vs. Harvard (at Port Charles, Fla.), Noon
Boston College vs. Rutgers (at Charleston, S.C.), 1 p.m.
Bryant at Virginia Tech, 1 p.m.
Bowling Green at Louisville, 1 p.m.
Columbia at Virginia, 1 p.m.
UCF at Clemson, 1 p.m.
East Carolina at North Carolina, 1 p.m.
Belmont at NC State, 1 p.m.
Dartmouth at Miami, 1 p.m.
Tennessee Tech at Georgia Tech, 1 p.m.
Notre Dame at UNC Greensboro, 1 p.m.
Baylor at Duke, 1 p.m.
Mt. St. Mary’s at Wake Forest, 2 p.m.
Florida State at TCU, 2 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 28
Radford at Virginia Tech, 1 p.m.
Longwood at NC State, 3 p.m.
VMI at Virginia, 3 p.m.
Bucknell at Pitt, 3 p.m.
Eastern Kentucky at Louisville, 3 p.m.
Clemson at USC Upstate, 4 p.m.
Long Island at Georgia Tech, 4 p.m.
East Carolina at Duke, 4 p.m.
VCU at North Carolina, 4 p.m.
UNC Wilmington at Wake Forest, 5 p.m.
Miami at FAU, 6:30 p.m.
