No. 20 Duke clinches third consecutive Top-15 series victory Sunday

Freshman Andrew Healy worked three innings of three-hit baseball and No. 20 Duke (31-13, 14-9 ACC) scored three runs in the first inning, to clinch the third consecutive top-15 series victory on Sunday against No. 13 Virginia (35-11, 13-11 ACC).

Posted 3:53 a.m. May 1 — Updated 3:53 a.m. May 1

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Freshman Andrew Healy worked three innings of three-hit baseball and No. 20 Duke (31-13, 14-9 ACC) scored three runs in the first inning, to clinch the third consecutive top-15 series victory on Sunday against No. 13 Virginia (35-11, 13-11 ACC).

The Blue Devils return home to open an eight-game home stand on Sunday, May 7 against Longwood.

HOW IT HAPPENED

In the top of the first inning, Giovanni DiGiacomo singled through the right side to score Jay Beshears from third, 1-0. Graduate Damon Lux hit a sacrifice fly to right field to score Alex Stone from third, 2-0. Junior Luke Storm doubled down the line in right to score MJ Metz from third, 3-0.

Junior Alex Stone extended his hitting streak to 18 games, hitting a solo home run to left field, 4-0.

Stone singled to right center in the top of the fourth to score Alex Mooney from second, 5-0. Metz singled up the middle to score Beshears from third, 6-0.

Virginia scored a run in the bottom of the fourth to cut into the lead, 6-1.

The Cavaliers scored a pair in the bottom of the sixth inning to cut the lead to three, 6-3.

Freshman Tyler Albright grounded out to second base to score DiGiacomo from third in the top of the seventh, 7-3.

NOTES

Junior Alex Stone extended his hitting streak to 18 games, hitting a solo home run to left field in the top of the fourth. It was his third home run in as many games, leading the Blue Devils with 12.

The Blue Devils have tallied 78 home runs this season to tie the 2021 squad for fourth most all-time in program history, as well as the most home runs under head coach Chris Pollard.

Freshman Andrew Healy worked three innings of three-hit baseball in his first weekend start of the season, to improve to 5-1 on the year.

Sophomore Alex Mooney tallied his 15th multi-hit contest of the season, leading the Blue Devils.

Sunday marked the first series win in Charlottesville, Va., since 2019.

Duke improves to 22-7 in ACC series when winning the first game of the weekend, since 2016.

Sunday marks the third consecutive top-15 series victory for the Blue Devils.

QUOTES

"I thought our defense was great and I thought we had a much better approach at the plate from the word go. It was good to put some pressure on O'Connor early and use a multitude of different things to do that." – Head coach Chris Pollard on his thoughts about Sunday afternoon.

"The job that Andrew Healy did was incredible. We asked him to go out there on short rest. We asked him to move from the midweek to the weekend. To do it on the road, in an environment like this, in a top-15 matchup, with first place on the line in the division that was huge." – On the start Andrew Healy gave the Blue Devils on Sunday.

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