College Sports

Georgia Tech is still grieving for Michael Hutts, a junior pitcher who was found dead in his apartment on Friday. A few minutes after his Yellow Jackets lost both games of a doubleheader with Miami, baseball coach Danny Hall indicated emotions are still too raw to put perspective on Hutt's death.

Trailing by four runs in the fifth inning, the Virginia baseball team staged its largest rally of the season and scored nine unanswered runs, including six in the eighth, to defeat Maryland 11-6 Friday night at Shipley Field. The win pushed UVa's winning streak against Maryland to 16 games dating to 2002.

After a month-long absence from the starting lineup, Nate Freiman returned to go 2-for-4 with a home run and three RBI to lead Duke to a 4-1 win over N.C. State Friday evening at Doak Field.

Redshirt junior Rhett Ballard (High Point, N.C.) tossed Virginia Tech's first complete game in just his second start of the season to lead the Hokies past Wake Forest 7-3 on Friday afternoon at Hooks Stadium.

Top-ranked Florida State took wins of 10-0 and 4-3 Friday in an Atlantic Coast Conference battle over Boston College at Commander Shea Field.

Georgia junior Trevor Holder struck out a career-high nine, the bullpen tossed two more scoreless innings and a late rally helped the 11th-ranked Bulldogs defeat ninth-ranked Kentucky 3-2 Friday in front of 3,253 at Foley Field.

The Tennessee baseball team

It was a defensive battle through the first seven and a half innings, but the pitcher

Whit Merrifield's RBI fielder's choice in the top of the ninth inning lifted South Carolina to a 7-6 victory over Auburn on Friday evening at Plainsman Park in the first of a three-game SEC baseball series.

Sophomore Dallas Keuchel threw an absolute gem for the Arkansas baseball team on Friday night to lead the Razorbacks to 2-1 victory over the Florida Gators in Southeastern Conference action.