The Virginia baseball team had never swept the Tigers at Clemson - until last weekend.
The No. 6 Cavaliers (16-1, 3-0 ACC) won the opener behind junior pitcher Danny Hultzen's 5-0 shutout. Hultzen silenced a Clemson team that led the ACC in batting average and earned Collegiate Baseball's National Player of the Week honors for the second time in three weeks.
Virginia trailed the No. 4 Tigers 7-4 through seven innings Saturday but rallied to take an 8-7 victory. Junior catcher John Hicks played the hero by knocking in the go-ahead run with two outs in the ninth.
The Cavaliers won 7-6 Sunday to complete the sweep. Clemson (7-6, 0-3 ACC) jumped out to a 4-3 lead, but during the fifth inning, junior infielder Steven Proscia gave Virginia its first home run of the season and a lead it would not relinquish.
Virginia returns to action at 5 p.m. today against James Madison at Davenport Field.
-compiled by Ashley Robertson
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