UNC drilled USCe 20-5
Florida defeated F.S.U. 10-7
Georgia took care of Ga.Tech 5-1

Boom!

Cards beat Georgia Tech 3-0 in Atlanta. Brendan McKay threw 8 innings of one hit ball and outhit the Jackets himself, going 2-4 at the plate to raise his average back up near .400 on the year.

Cards take game two at Georgia Tech, 10 - 1. Clinch the series. Go for the sweep tomorrow.

30 - 4 overall.
14 - 3 in conference.

Heels down State 7-2.

Cards get the sweep ... 5 - 4 over Georgia Tech.

Cards 31 - 4 overall ...

15 - 3 in conference.


Cards got 3 hits today .... Jackets had 11 .... both had 1 error. Have to feel that the Cards stole one today, but I don't know the details, just looking at the final result.

Heels top State 7-1 in the second game of the series on Saturday, go for the sweep today.

2017 Louisville Cardinals baseball

Overall 31-4
ACC 15-3
Streak W6
Home 21-1
Away 7-3
Neutral 3-0

ACC schedule
Pittsburgh (March 10, 11 & 12) 3-0 W 13-0 (1-0), 8-2 W 14-0 (2-0), 3-1 W 15-0 (3-0)

BC (March 17, 18 & 19) 6-0 W 17-0 (4-0), 6-4 W 18-0 (5-0), 5-3 W 19-0 (6-0)

@NCST (March 24, 25 & 26) 1-3 L 19-2 (6-1), 7-6 W 20-2(7-1), 8-1 W 21-2 (8-1)

@Virg (March 31, April 1 & 2) 5-2 W 23-2 (9-1), 2-11 L 23-3 (9-2), 4-3 W 24-3 (10-2)

WF (April 7, 8 & 9) 1-2 L 25-4 (10-3), 7-6 W 26-4 (11-3), 7-5 W 27-4 (12-3)

@GT (April 13,14, & 15) 3-0 W 29-4 (13-3), 10-1 W 30-4 (14-3), 5-4 W 31-4 (15-3)

Duke (April 21, 22 & 23)
@ND (May 5, 6 & 7)
@Clemson (May 12, 13 & 14)
FSU (May 18, 19 & 20)

ACC Championship May 23-28 @ Louisville Slugger Field

OOC schedule
Ala St(N) Feb 17 7-0 W 1-0
Maryland(N) Feb 18 10-7 W 2-0
Ball St(N) Feb 19 10-4 W 3-0
EKU Feb 22 19-3 W 4-0
Neb/Omaha Feb 24,25,26 7-2 W 5-0,10-0 W 6-0, 6-0 W 7-0
Morehead St March 1 20-2 W 8-0
EMU March 3,4,5 13-0 W 9-0, 3-2 W 10-0, 8-7 W 11-0
@EKU March 7 (ppd rain) (April 25)
Fort Wayne March 8 12-2 W 12-0
Xavier March 15 13-4 W 16-0
@Cincinnati March 21 3-6 L 19-1
WKU March 28 11-1 W 22-2
Kentucky April 4 5-3 W 25-3
Purdue April 11 13-2 W 28-4
@Kentucky April 18
EKU April 25
N Ky April 26 (Lou Slugger Field)
Toledo April 28,29,30
Miami (Oh) May 2
Vanderbilt May 9
@Indiana May 16

Cards have lost single games to Cincinnati, NC State, Virginia & WF. They got the sweep at GT over the weekend. Cards play at Kentucky on Tuesday at 7 on the SECN. The Cards defeated the cats 5-3 on April 4 in Louisville. Duke comes to town for a weekend series. The EKU game will be made up on April 25 in Richmond, Ky. The game on March 7 was postponed due to rain. (Some SEC teams (coughFloridacough) maybe reluctant to play makeup games but apparently Louisville isn't.)

Fri @ 6
Sat @ 1
Sun @ 1

STANDINGS (as of Apr 17, 2017)

Atlantic Division

ACC Overall
Team W L T Pct W L T Pct
Louisville.......... 15 3 0 .833 31 4 0 .886
Clemson............. 14 3 0 .824 30 6 0 .833
Wake Forest......... 12 6 0 .667 28 10 0 .737
Florida State....... 8 9 0 .471 22 15 0 .595
NC State............ 8 10 0 .444 20 17 0 .541
Notre Dame.......... 7 11 0 .389 15 20 0 .429
Boston College...... 3 15 0 .167 12 21 0 .364


Coastal Division

ACC Overall
Team W L T Pct W L T Pct
North Carolina...... 14 4 0 .778 29 7 0 .806
Virginia............ 10 8 0 .556 29 9 0 .763
Miami............... 9 9 0 .500 17 19 0 .472
Virginia Tech....... 7 11 0 .389 19 19 0 .500
Duke................ 7 11 0 .389 19 19 0 .500
Pitt................ 7 11 0 .389 15 17 0 .469
Georgia Tech........ 4 14 0 .222 16 18 0 .471

UVa is sitting in pretty good position in the conference having played 3 of the top 4 teams in the whole country (according to most of this week's polls). Clemson has a similarly-tough schedule and will face two others of the top 4 national teams in their remaining schedule. Louisville and UNC have easier conference schedules this year and only have to face one of the other top 3 ACC teams (in top 4 of the nation). But both are still to come for them and will shake up the conference standings before the postseason begins. Wake is also a factor in this regard.

Cats take Cards 11-7 in Lexington in a very ugly game on both sides.

#13 Cats ends Louisville 6 game winning streak in the series 11-7. Cats first victory over the Cards since April 15, 2014. Cards own miscues proved to be costly. Cats put up 5 runs in the first, including a throw to home plate that appeared that would have been in time but was instead cut off. Louisville responded by putting runners at 2 & 3 with no outs but a fly ball to short left turned into a triple play. Runner at 3 tagged up but was thrown out at home & the runner at 2 tried to advance when the throw to the plate wasn't cut off but he to was thrown out at 3. A few innings later an apparent routine double play ball went through the second baseman legs & resulted in 3 more runs scoring in the inning for the Cats. Cards trailed 11-0 in the 5 but came back with 7 runs. The game ended fittingly with another Cards miscue, the runner at 1 thought the ball was fouled tipped but was actually a swing & a miss. He was caught meandering between 1 & 2 for the final out.

(04-18-2017 09:38 PM)JRsec Wrote:  Cats take Cards 11-7 in Lexington in a very ugly game on both sides.

Ugly indeed. Uglier on the Louisville side however. The rain at the start may have contributed to the ugliness.

Pitt sweeps Penn State on the season by winning tonight in Nit land 9-1. Earlier we won at Pitt 3-2, plus we beat them in football and men's hoops.

Cards beat Duke yesterday 7-5 to end their 2 game losing streak. Look to take the series 2-1 over Duke today @ 12:45 in Jim Patterson Stadium.

Cards beat Duke 10-0 to take the series 2-1.

2017 Louisville Cardinals baseball

Overall 33-6
ACC 17-4
Streak W2
Home 23-2
Away 7-4
Neutral 3-0

ACC schedule
Pittsburgh (March 10, 11 & 12) 3-0 W 13-0 (1-0), 8-2 W 14-0 (2-0), 3-1 W 15-0 (3-0)

BC (March 17, 18 & 19) 6-0 W 17-0 (4-0), 6-4 W 18-0 (5-0), 5-3 W 19-0 (6-0)

@NCST (March 24, 25 & 26) 1-3 L 19-2 (6-1), 7-6 W 20-2(7-1), 8-1 W 21-2 (8-1)

@Virg (March 31, April 1 & 2) 5-2 W 23-2 (9-1), 2-11 L 23-3 (9-2), 4-3 W 24-3 (10-2)

WF (April 7, 8 & 9) 1-2 L 25-4 (10-3), 7-6 W 26-4 (11-3), 7-5 W 27-4 (12-3)

@GT (April 13,14, & 15) 3-0 W 29-4 (13-3), 10-1 W 30-4 (14-3), 5-4 W 31-4 (15-3)

Duke (April 21, 22 & 23) 3-5 L 31-6 (15-4), 7-5 W 32-6 (16-4), 10-0 W 33-6 (17-4)

@ND (May 5, 6 & 7)
@Clemson (May 12, 13 & 14)
FSU (May 18, 19 & 20)

ACC Championship May 23-28 @ Louisville Slugger Field

OOC schedule
Ala St(N) Feb 17 7-0 W 1-0
Maryland(N) Feb 18 10-7 W 2-0
Ball St(N) Feb 19 10-4 W 3-0
EKU Feb 22 19-3 W 4-0
Neb/Omaha Feb 24,25,26 7-2 W 5-0,10-0 W 6-0, 6-0 W 7-0
Morehead St March 1 20-2 W 8-0
EMU March 3,4,5 13-0 W 9-0, 3-2 W 10-0, 8-7 W 11-0
@EKU March 7 (ppd rain) (April 25)
Fort Wayne March 8 12-2 W 12-0
Xavier March 15 13-4 W 16-0
@Cincinnati March 21 3-6 L 19-1
WKU March 28 11-1 W 22-2
Kentucky April 4 5-3 W 25-3
Purdue April 11 13-2 W 28-4
@Kentucky April 18 7-11 L 31-5
EKU April 25
N Ky April 26 (Lou Slugger Field)
Toledo April 28,29,30
Miami (Oh) May 2
Vanderbilt May 9
@Indiana May 16

Cards split the series with Kentucky, winning at home on April 4 5-3 & then having their 6 game win streak in the series ended in Lexington 11-7. Cards step away from conference play this week. Next up is a makeup game at Eastern Ky on Tuesday. They return to Louisville on Wednesday for a game against Northern Ky in Louisville Slugger Field, site of the ACC CC this year. Slugger Field is home of the Louisville Bats, the AAA franchise of the Cincinnati Reds. Cards take on Toledo in a 3 game series this weekend at home. Miami (OH) comes to town the following Tuesday before the Cards return to conference action against ND in South Bend.

Tue @ 3
Wed @ 6

Fri @ 6
Sat @ 1
Sun @ 1

Carolina wins the series at Pitt 2-1.

Clemson comes to Chapel Hill next weekend (both teams are sporting 16-5 conference records).

Panthers trying to make the ACC baseball tourney for the first time. Big series against GT in early May.

2017 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball


STANDINGS (as of Apr 23, 2017)

Atlantic Division

ACC Overall
Team W L T Pct W L T Pct
Louisville.......... 17 4 0 .810 33 6 0 .846
Clemson............. 16 5 0 .762 33 8 0 .805
Wake Forest......... 13 8 0 .619 29 13 0 .690
Florida State....... 10 10 0 .500 25 16 0 .610
NC State............ 8 13 0 .381 20 20 0 .500
Notre Dame.......... 8 13 0 .381 18 22 0 .450
Boston College...... 6 15 0 .286 15 22 0 .405


Coastal Division

ACC Overall
Team W L T Pct W L T Pct
North Carolina...... 16 5 0 .762 31 9 0 .775
Virginia............ 12 9 0 .571 33 10 0 .767
Miami............... 10 10 0 .500 19 20 0 .487
Duke................ 8 13 0 .381 21 21 0 .500
Virginia Tech....... 8 13 0 .381 20 22 0 .476
Pitt................ 8 13 0 .381 17 20 0 .459
Georgia Tech........ 6 15 0 .286 20 19 0 .513