Clemson Baseball Heads to ACC Championship Game
The winning streak has reached 15 and the Clemson Tigers are on their way to the ACC title game after defeating the North Carolina Tar Heels 10-4 in a dominant fashion that's become the norm for this team as of late.
Caden Grice not only was the starting pitcher, who gave them 7 innings and allowed 3 runs on 4 hits and only 1 walk but also started the game off with a 2-run double to begin a 5 run 1st inning that essentially put the game away before it ever got started. Billy Amick chipped in with a 2 run bomb and Blake Wright sent his own solo shot over the wall to finish the inning off.
Clemson took down North Carolina 10-4 to head to the ACC Championship. (Brian Hennessy - Clemson Athletics)
Amick got the most challenging half of the cycle with a 2-run triple the very next inning and the game felt truly over then. For a team that started 2-7 in the conference, this is another mark in what has become an incredible turnaround. 13 straight conference wins would have been unfathomable a couple of months ago but now it almost feels expected.
What were the keys to winning for the Tigers? Coach Erik Bakich told reporters plainly, "Caden Grice gave us an outstanding start. Threw all three of his pitches for strikes. He attacked and got ahead. Offensively we got some early runs with Caden and Billy. We had a lot of traffic on the bases and kept threatening."
On Sunday, Clemson will take on the Miami Hurricanes for the Atlanta Coast Conference title. The Tigers and Hurricanes have yet to play this season. The Tigers are one win away from one of the best mid-season turnarounds this conference has seen.