No. 9 FSU Baseball finishes off sweep of No. 25 Hokies with 4-2 win Sunday
It was a recipe so nice the FSU baseball team used it thrice.
After back-to-back wins in Saturday’s doubleheader, during which the Florida State Seminoles used just two pitchers in each game, they did the exact same thing on Sunday afternoon in pulling off a sweep of the No. 25 Virginia Tech Hokies in Blacksburg, Va.
Wes Mendes pitched the first 5 1/3 innings and allowed just one run, Peyton Prescott pitched the final 3 2/3 innings and allowed just one run himself, as the No. 9 Seminoles won the series finale 4-2.
All told, in the three-game sweep, the Florida State staff used just six pitchers total. All of them pitched well, including Mendes on Sunday.
The left-hander had struggled mightily in his last few starts, but pitched in and out of trouble during Sunday’s outing and recorded 17 outs before handing it over to Prescott for the final 10.
The duo combined for six strikeouts but walked just three (all by Mendes).
The FSU defense was nearly flawless behind them, with shortstop Alex Lodise committing the lone error for the Seminoles all weekend.
Sunday’s victory capped off a remarkable bounce-back weekend for FSU, which was run-ruled in back-to-back ugly losses to Wake Forest at Dick Howser Stadium the week before.
The Seminoles allowed 34 runs in the series, including 29 in the final two games. They also lost a midweek game to the Florida Gators in Gainesville.
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Against a Virginia Tech team that swept Wake Forest earlier in the year, the Seminoles allowed four runs total. In three games.
They are now 28-7 overall and 11-4 in the ACC.
The FSU offense wasn’t outstanding on Sunday, but it did just enough to secure the sweep.
Left fielder Chase Williams was the star at the plate for the Seminoles, collecting two hits, including an RBI triple and driving in another run with a bases-loaded sacrifice fly.
Hunter Carns, who had two hits, scored on a wild pitch, and fellow freshman Brody DeLamielleure drove in Chase Williams with a sac fly to center field. Max Williams added two more hits for the Seminoles, as did Gage Harrelson.
But the story of the game, of the weekend really, was the FSU pitching staff.
The six-pack of Joey Volini, Joe Charles, Jamie Arnold, John Abraham, Mendes and Prescott combined for 27 innings pitched, 17 hits, four runs and 26 strikeouts against a Virginia Tech team that came into the series averaging 8.2 runs per game.
Florida State returns home this week for a Tuesday night game against South Florida and then a three-game series against Virginia that starts on Thursday.
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