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Florida State, Florida reach baseball title games

 
Timely power: Mike Rivera hits a homer to put Florida up for good in its 2-1 win over LSU.
Timely power: Mike Rivera hits a homer to put Florida up for good in its 2-1 win over LSU.
Published May 24, 2015

DURHAM, N.C. — Ben DeLuzio homered and drove in two runs as Florida State knocked off Louisville 6-0 Saturday to reach today's ACC baseball tournament final.

Chris Marconcini also had two RBIs for the fourth-seeded Seminoles (40-19). FSU, ranked 17th by Baseball America, went 3-0 in pool play and faces sixth-seeded North Carolina State in the title game (1 p.m., ESPN2).

DeLuzio led off the eighth with a homer and had three hits. Marconcini broke the game open with a two-run single in the seventh. Winning pitcher Drew Carlton (4-5) struck out four and allowed five hits in seven innings. Louisville (43-16) was the top seed. N.C. State (33-20) clinched Pool B late Friday with a 5-4 victory over Miami. The Hurricanes (44-14) beat Notre Dame 6-5 Saturday.

Also, FSU outfielder DJ Stewart and Miami third baseman David Thompson were among 21 semi­finalists for the Golden Spikes Award as the nation's top amateur player. Finalists will be announced June 2 and the winner will be named June 23.

Florida in SEC final: Freshman Mike Rivera homered in the top of the ninth and No. 4 seed Florida beat top seed and No. 1-ranked LSU 2-1 to reach today's SEC tournament final in Hoover, Ala. Taylor Lewis (6-1) allowed one hit over 41/3 scoreless innings, including a perfect ninth, for the sixth-ranked Gators (43-16). LSU (48-10) led 1-0 until Florida tied it in the eighth when JJ Schwarz drove in Josh Tobias. Rivera then drove a pitch from reliever Jesse Stallings over the leftfield fence. UF faces Vanderbilt (4:30 p.m., ESPN2) after the No. 2 seed Commodores (42-18) beat Texas A&M 12-3.

American Athletic Conference: East Carolina defeated Connecticut 4-2 and top seed Houston routed Memphis 17-3 in eight innings to set up today's tournament finale at Bright House Field in Clearwater. The Cougars (42-17) and No. 2 seed Pirates (39-20) meet today at noon on ESPNU.

UF opens Super Region with win

GAINESVILLE — Lauren Haeger threw a two-hitter as top seed Florida, the defending national champion, beat SEC rival Kentucky 7-0 in Game 1 of their best-of-three softball Super Region series. Haeger (27-1) has tossed 222/3 consecutive scoreless innings against the Wildcats (33-25). Freshman Kayli Kvistad had three RBIs for UF (54-6). The teams meet again today (noon, ESPN) with Kentucky needing a win to force a deciding game at 3. Otherwise UF will go to the Women's College World Series in Oklahoma City.

Tennis: Florida's Josie Kuhlman defeated Miami's Sinead Lohan 6-3, 6-4 in the quarterfinals of the NCAA women's singles championship. Kuhlman faces Stanford's Carol Zhao in today's semifinals. St. Petersburg's Danielle Collins, a Virginia junior who won the national title last season, fell to North Carolina's Jamie Loeb 6-3, 1-6, 6-4. In doubles, UF's Kourtney Keegan and Brooke Austin defeated Zhao and Taylor Davidson 6-0, 1-6, 6-4 and face Cal's Klara Fabikova and Zsofi Susanyi today.

Golf: Florida's Karolina Vlickova shot 8 over on the day, 15 over for the tourney, through 16 holes in the weather-delayed women's NCAA Championships at the Concession Club in Bradenton. Of 132 players, 56 did not finish their second round and will do so this morning before Round 3 starts.

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