Baseball Opens ACC Championship Wednesday

GREENSBORO, N.C. – No. 3 Miami will open its run at the 2014 ACC Championship on Wednesday at 3 p.m. against the winner of the Georgia Tech/Wake Forest play-in game.

The Hurricanes (40-15, 24-6 ACC), who earned the No. 1 seed in the tournament by capturing the ACC Regular Season Championship, are joined in Pool A by fourth-seeded Duke (32-23, 16-14) and fifth-seeded Clemson (34-22, 15-14), while No. 8 Wake Forest (30-25, 15-15) and No. 9 Georgia Tech (32-24, 14-16) will play on Tuesday to join the pool.

Starting for Miami in its first game will be redshirt sophomore Andrew Suarez. The game – slated for broadcast on RSN with an ESPN3 simulcast – can also be heard on WQAM.com and WVUM 90.5 FM.

The two teams with the best records within their respective pools will advance to the title game on Sunday, May 25, with the winner earning the ACC’s automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament.

The two pool winners will play Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. for the 2014 ACC Championship.

Fans can still purchase tickets to next week’s championship. Complete books to all 15 games are available, as well as individual game tickets that can be purchased by calling the Greensboro Grasshoppers at 336-268-2255 or by ordering on-line at:http://theacc.co/BASE14tix.

All 15 games of this year’s ACC Baseball Championship will be televised for the eighth straight year. Regional Sports Networks from across the conference footprint and across the nation will carry all 14 games on Tuesday through Saturday. Sunday’s 1 p.m. championship game will televised nationally by ESPN2. All games will also be available on  ESPN3.

In addition, all 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. games will be broadcast via satellite radio on Sirius 220/XM 190. The night games and Sunday’s championship game will available on SiriusXM 91.