Clemson Baseball: Tigers Sweep Seminoles

The Clemson baseball team wrapped up their 2015 regular season against their ACC foe, the Florida State Seminoles and look to begin post-season play.

The Clemson Tiger baseball team finished off their regular season with a bang as they went on the road and took all three games against a top-10 Florida State Seminole team. The Tigers pulled off the remarkable upset and gained some much-needed momentum going into the ACC Tournament. Clemson still has hopes of not only winning the tournament, but sneaking into the NCAA Tournament and, with a good showing this weekend, it certainly helped their case to continue.

The Tigers started out the series by taking a 4-1 win on Thursday behind some solid pitching from Matthew Crownover. Crownover pitched seven innings of one-run baseball, while also striking out five batters.

This just added to the Tigers’ momentum and led to an offensive explosion in Game Two, where Clemson outscored Florida State 7-0. Zach Erwin gave Clemson six strong innings of work, allowing no runs on an efficient 73 pitches. Clemson took Game Three on Saturday behind another strong starting pitching performance from Jake Long.

Long went six innings and gave up no runs, giving up only four hits and striking out three batters. Clemson gave up five runs in the ninth inning, but Pat Krall came in, once again to get the final out of the game and seal the sweep for the Tigers as Clemson held on to win 9-6.

Clemson was also led by some outstanding hitting from Freshman Reed Rohlman. Rohlman went 7-for-11 at the plate this weekend, with seven RBI, a home run, and also had three doubles in Game Three Saturday afternoon. Those three doubles tied a school-record as he continues to have a great Freshman season.

Clemson finishes the regular season with an overall record of 31-25 and 17-13 in the ACC and will look to advance through their pool when the ACC Tournament begins for them on Wednesday. The Tigers are grouped in a Pool with Number One Seed Louisville, Number Four Seed Florida State, and the winner of North Carolina and Virginia Tech in the play-in game, held Tuesday. Clemson also assured a winning season for the 51st time in a row, a great feat for such a storied program.