Finateri Pitches Georgia Tech to Run-Rule No. 10 Virginia

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Georgia Tech baseball supplied 13 runs of support behind a stellar start from RHP Aeden Finateri to run-rule No. 10 Virginia, 13-2, on Friday night at Disharoon Park.

The Yellow Jackets (23-13, 8-8 ACC) got a career-long 6.2 innings out of Finateri (5-1) as he scattered 12 hits for just one earned run against one of the top offenses in the country, while striking out eight and walking none. Behind him, RHP Ben King got a crucial out in the seventh and RHP Carson Ballard pitched the final eighth inning without allowing a hit to hold UVA to its lowest run total of the season.

At the plate, Tech scored in a variety of ways, stringing together timely hitting and sacrifice bunts to score six runs in the third inning before a Ryan Jaros RBI double kickstarted a six-run eighth inning that Cam Jones added the exclamation point with a grand slam.

Overall, Jones led with two hits and the four RBI, while Trey Yunger and Jaros also turned in multi-hit days. John Giesler, Matthew Ellis, Carson Kerce and Vahn Lackey all recorded RBI hits on the day with Giesler having a bases-clearing double in the third.

The 10th-ranked Cavaliers (29-10, 11-8 ACC) were led by Ethan Anderson, who went 2-for-4 with a double. LHP Evan Blanco (4-2) took just his second loss of the season, allowing six runs on seven hits in 5.0 innings.