“I thought that was maybe as good as Max Stammel’s looked all year,” Coach Chris Pollard said postgame. “The difference-maker was the ability to land the slider and get something going the opposite way.”
“I want to give Syracuse credit,” Tiffany said. “I felt like their entire team had a greater sense of urgency … Syracuse’s offense is really, really difficult to stop.”
Ahead of the series, here is the good, the bad and the surprising — the high, the low and the buffalo — for the Cavaliers and their opponent.
Ultimately, Virginia would win 3-1. Three hits and seven walks for Virginia would prove enough to push past Boston College as the series concluded in front of the second-largest crowd ever at Eddie Pellagrini Diamond on a cool spring afternoon.
With the days of back-to-back NCAA Championships in 2019 and 2021 now far in the rearview, after four bumpy losses, Virginia looks to claw back into conference contention
While the conclusion of the season is not foregone by any means, Virginia has made well of the opportunities it has been given.
The sun was high and temperatures approached the low eighties as a mass of fans entered the gates of Davenport Field at Disharoon Park. The temperature was not the only thing that was high, as No. 9 Virginia baseball felt the pressure in their first ACC series-deciding match against No. 24 Wake Forest.
“I liked our physicality,” Tiffany said. “We like it when it's aggressive … We like our man-down defense, so [we] want to play a physical game.”
“It was really a surprise to tell you the truth,” Tiffany said. “As I was running out of LaValle Stadium, somebody from the Stony Brook administration said something … that was a special moment.”
“When we fall behind, we are really good at having a quick answer, and we did that again today,” Pollard said. “That’s what good teams do.”
