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Noting ACC Baseball – May 16
• ACC baseball has reached the final week of the regular season, with 10 non-conference games slated for Tuesday, followed by the final ACC regular-season ACC series Thursday through Saturday. Wake Forest has clinched the Atlantic Division title and No.1 overall seed in the upcoming ACC Baseball Championship, but the Coastal Division remains log-jammed with four teams still in contention for the top spot.
• The division winners will be the top two seeds for the 2023 ACC Baseball Championship, which is set for Tuesday, May 23 through Sunday, May 28 at Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, N.C. The final 12-team field will be determined this weekend, and tournament seedings will be announced Saturday evening (May 20). The complete tournament bracket with game times and daily matchups will be unveiled late Sunday morning.
• Wake Forest third baseman Brock Wilken remains a player to watch in the weeks ahead as he continues to chase the ACC career home run record. The Valrico, Fla., native has 23 home runs this season and has moved to sole possession of No. 3 on the ACC’s all-time list:
1. Anthony Maisano, GaT/WF* (1986-90) - 69
J.D. Drew, Florida State (1995-97) - 69
3. Brock Wilken, Wake Forest (2021-Pres) - 63
4. Pat Clougherty, NC State (1991-94) - 61
• While next week’s Championship looms on the immediate horizon, the upcoming NCAA tournament is also on the radar of most ACC teams. Nine conference teams were among the top 35 of the NCAA RPI released on Tuesday:
2 – Wake Forest
8 – Clemson
9 – Virginia
12 - Duke
13 – Boston College
18 – Miami
24 – North Carolina
26 – NC State
34 – Louisville
ACC Player, Pitcher of the Week
Clemson first baseman Billy Amick has been named the Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Player of the Week for May 15, while Virginia right-hander Brian Edgington earned ACC Pitcher of the Week honors.
ACC baseball weekly honors are determined by a vote of a select media panel and announced on Mondays throughout the regular season.
Amick went 11-for-20 (.550) with two homers, four doubles, nine RBIs, eight runs, a 1.050 slugging percentage and a walk in four games last week – all wins and all on the road – as the No. 10 Tigers downed No. 8 Coastal Carolina and swept Virginia Tech in three ACC games.
At Coastal Carolina on Wednesday, Amick was 3-for-6 with a homer and three RBIs, then he went 8-for-14 (.571) with four doubles, a homer, six RBIs and six runs in three games at Virginia Tech over the weekend. On the week, the Batesburg, South Carolina native had three three-hit games and a two-hit game, while he also had at least one extra-base hit, scored at least one run and had at least one RBI in all four games. On the season, he is hitting .413 with 10 homers, a triple, 13 doubles, 41 RBIs, 30 runs, a .770 slugging percentage, .458 on-base percentage and two steals in 35 games.
Edgington turned in six scoreless innings and fanned eight batters to help No. 21 Virginia complete a series sweep of Louisville on Sunday. He surrendered just two hits and allowed only one runner to reach second base.
Beginning with the last out of the first inning, Edgington retired 13 straight batters before giving up his only extra base hit of the afternoon, a leadoff double in the sixth. Edgington, of Hatboro, Pennsylvania, improved to 7-3 on the season and is now tied for the staff lead with five quality starts.
ACC Baseball in the NCAA
• At least one ACC team has reached the College World Series each of the last 16 years in which the event has been held, and multiple ACC teams reached the CWS 10 times during that span.
• Led by College World Series participant Notre Dame, nine ACC teams were selected to compete in the 2022 NCAA Tournament, tying for the most of any conference.
• The ACC has placed at least six teams in the NCAA tournament for 18 straight years. The 2022 season marked the sixth year since 2010 that at least eight ACC teams landed spots in the field.
• The ACC has placed a total of 29 teams in the past 16 College World Series, an average of nearly two per season.
• Ninety-nine ACC teams have earned NCAA bids in the last 13 tournament years. The 14 current ACC teams have a combined 99 College World Series appearances.
• Three ACC teams rank among the top five nationally for most all-time tournament appearances: No. 2 Florida State (59), No. 3 Miami (48), and No. 5 Clemson (44).
Upcoming ACC Schedule
Tuesday, May 16
Gardner-Webb at Duke, 3 p.m.
USC Upstate at Clemson, 4 p.m.
Wake Forest at UNC Wilmington, 5 p.m.
Notre Dame vs. Northwestern, 6 p.m. (at Chicago’s Wrigley Field)
Northern Kentucky at Louisville, 6 p.m.
Penn State at Pitt, 6 p.m.
Kennesaw State at Florida State, 6 p.m.
Georgia Tech at Mercer, 6 p.m.
North Carolina at Coastal Carolina, 6 p.m.
Miami at FIU, 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, May 18
Notre Dame at Boston College, 5:30 p.m.
North Carolina at Clemson, 6 p.m.
Virginia at Georgia Tech, 6 p.m.
Virginia Tech at Wake Forest, 6 p.m.
Pitt at NC State, 6 p.m.
Duke at Miami, 7 p.m.
Florida State at Louisville, 7 p.m.
Friday, May 19
North Carolina at Clemson, 6 p.m.
Virginia at Georgia Tech, 6 p.m.
Virginia Tech at Wake Forest, 6 p.m.
Pitt at NC State, 6 p.m.
Florida State at Louisville, 6 p.m.
Duke at Miami, 7 p.m.
Notre Dame at Boston College, 7 p.m. (ACCN)
Saturday, May 20
Notre Dame at Boston College, Noon
North Carolina at Clemson, 1 p.m. (ACCN)
Virginia at Georgia Tech, 1 p.m.
Duke at Miami, 1 p.m.
Florida State at Louisville, 1 p.m.
Pitt at NC State, 1 p.m.
Virginia Tech at Wake Forest, 4 p.m.
May 23-28
ACC Baseball Championship at Durham, N.C.