PITTSBURGH (theACC.com) - Meeting in the semifinals of the ACC Softball Championship for the second straight year, third-seeded Florida State held off second-seeded Duke 8-6 Friday evening to advance to Sunday’s championship game.

In a back-and-forth affair, the Seminoles (51-5) pushed across the first five runs of the game before six unanswered runs by the Blue Devils (41-8). Florida State responded with three runs in the sixth to pull ahead by the game’s final margin, 8-6.

The team’s combined for 19 hits, four home runs and four doubles.

Florida State recorded four hits and scored five runs in the second, headlined by two-run homers from Chloe Culp and Kalei Harding. Culp hit the first of the inning on 1-1 pitch from Duke starter Peyton St. George over the left field fence for her second homer of the year. After a bunt single from Josie Muffley, Kaley Mudge doubled to left field to score Muffley and Harding crushed the first pitch of her at-bat to make it 5-0.

Duke got a run back in the bottom of the inning after an RBI double from Ana Gold. Rachel Crabtree led off the fourth with a solo homer to right center and Francesca Frelick belted a two-run blast three batters later as the Blue Devils cut the Seminoles lead to 5-4.

Caroline Jacobsen drove in a pair of runs with the bases loaded in the bottom of the fifth, as the Blue Devils rallied from a 5-0 deficit to take a 6-5 lead.

Florida State countered in its next plate appearance with three runs to regain the lead, 8-6. Mudge logged and RBI single to tie it and Sydney Sherrill had the big hit in the inning with a one-out two-run double to left center.