14 • Friday, May 30, 2003 • Technique SPORTS Baseball from page 16 ACC votes to expand to 12 teams During the first two games, the crease their lead by 5-2 in the sev- By Clark Nelson sure. The teams that were to be in- rivalries in football-and more im- Jackets rallied from five runs be- enth when Matt Murton walked Contributing Writer vited were debated when Virginia portantly basketball-by playing each hind to win the games. After the and scored on a Slayden double. wanted cross-state rival Virginia other every year. This is almost cer- two wins, the Jackets had to watch In his second-longest outing of How does Georgia Tech versus Tech, also from the Big East, to tain to happen considering the power as NC State gave them a fight when the season, freshman Jason Neigh- Miami at Bobby Dodd Stadium receive an invitation. Virginia Tech they currently hold in the ACC; the Wolfpack came back from a three- borgall started the game for Tech sound? It very well may happen come also lobbied themselves to gain an Swofford is the former Athletic Di- run deficit to tie the game in the and pitched 5-1/3 innings. Neigh- 2005. The ACC has voted to ex- invitation, but as of now the ACC rector at UNC. ninth inning. borgall gave up four hits and seven pand the conference and has invit- has not invited the Hokies. There are a couple of major stick- The tenth inning push to win walks and had just two runs. ed Big East schools Miami, Syracuse If the three invitees decide to ing points for the expansion to be the game began with a walk from Junior righthander Brian Burks and Boston Col- join the ACC, successful. First, all three teams must reliever Chad Orvella to Jeremy Slay- was named the tournament’s MVP lege to join the it is unclear how accept the bid to join the ACC. den to lead off the 10th. Orvella was because of a valuable save against nine team confer- they will align. Second, the ACC must be able to NC State’s fourth pitcher during Wake Forest and a win in relief against ence. This is The ACC maintain its payoff per team, which the game and he had retired eight Florida State. Burks, Patterson, Slay- widely seen as a would have two was the highest of any conference batters in a row in the ninth. den, Clifton Remole and Micah power move by “We’re trying to do divisions in last year. The revenue generated by After Slayden was hit by Jake Owings were all named to All-Tour- the ACC to im- which the win- the conference from bowl games and Hall’s ground ball between first and nament team. prove their tele- what’s best for our ner of each di- other events equaled $9.7 million second base, Hall took Slayden’s “We had such a battle in front of vision deal, conference in the vision would per team last year. spot at first. Next Tyler Greene us for three games,” said Burks. “Our currently worth meet in a con- Commissioner Swofford has stat- blooped a single to put men at first whole approach today was ‘Why $24 million, and future.” ference champi- ed that the conference will expand and second with one out. not? Why not win it all?’” upgrade the foot- John Swofford onship game. It by three teams or not at all. Miami Before Patterson’s single, he was On Monday, the NCAA gave ball status of the ACC Commissioner is widely specu- is the linchpin in the whole deal. If 1-for-4, had fallen behind 0-2, fouled the team a reward for their resil- conference. lated that the they leave the Big East, then it is off three pitches, and took two close ience by seeding the Yellow Jackets “We’re trying four North expected that Syracuse and Boston called balls. Patterson’s single en- in the top eight nationally for the to do what’s best Carolina College will follow. Syracuse bas- abled Hall to make the winning run. second time in four years. As the for our conference in the future,” schools, UNC, NC State, Duke, ketball coach Jim Boeheim, who Senior reliever Jeff Watchko took No. 3 national seed, Tech will not said ACC Commissioner John Swof- and Wake Forest, will be placed in won this year’s national champion- the win for the game. He had en- have to leave home in its bid to ford. “The good thing about our the same division and that Miami ship, has expressed his opinion that tered the game in the sixth inning return to Omaha, Nebraska for the league is, we are what we are today. and Florida State will be placed to- Syracuse stay in the Big East. The with one out and completed the College World Series. Our schools feel very good about gether. Big East is trying furiously to keep game despite giving up three runs Tech plays Stetson tonight in that. We can’t really end up in a bad However Miami coach Larry the Hurricanes and not reduce their in the eighth and ninth innings. the first round of a four-team, dou- place.” Coker has ex- conference to The Wolfpack had left the bases ble-elimination tournament at Russ The ACC has chosen Syracuse pressed his desire a tropical de- loaded three times in the first six Chandler Stadium. The other two and Boston College for the TV mar- for Miami to be in pression. innings, got three hits in the eighth teams are South Carolina and East kets of New York and Boston, and the opposite divi- “Miami is the linchpin Big to plate a run. In the ninth, the team Carolina. The winner of the region- because Miami has requested them. sion as the Semi- East Commis- tied the Jackets with two runs. One al will advance to a best-of-three The movement of college football noles. If the in the whole deal. If sioner Mike of the wolfpack players, Mark May- super regional series next weekend recently has been to create power Hurricanes and they leave the Big Tranghese has nor, scored after Tech right fielder against the winner of the regional at conferences driven by football, like Seminoles were in pleaded with Jeremy Slayden three wildly past Mississippi State. the SEC and Big 12. The addition opposite divisions, East, it is expected Miami to stay third base. ACC regular-season champion of Miami would vastly improve the it would be more that Syracuse and put stating that Mike Nickeas was the first Tech and rival Florida State is the nation- conference’s chances of landing a advantageous to a loss of three player to get on the scoreboard with al No. 1 seed. second team in the lucrative Bowl both teams. The Boston College will teams from the a sacrifice fly in the first inning and “I felt like we played our way Championship Series and overall loser of their an- follow.” Big East would later added three more runs in the into that No. 3 national seed by football prowess. nual game would be “the biggest fifth on four hits for a 4-1 lead. NC winning the ACC championship,” “It will be the best football con- still be able to win blow to inter- State had scored an unearned run in Tech coach Danny Hall said in an ference in the country,” said UNC its division, advance to the confer- collegiate athletics in my lifetime.” the fifth after Orvella singled and AJC interview, “There are some very head coach John Bunting. ence championship game, and have Georgia Tech athletic director scored on a sacrifice fly. The Wolf- good teams that didn't get those The ACC presidents obtained a shot at earning an automatic berth Dave Braine is in favor of the ex- pack added another run in the sixth national seeds, so I feel very proud the needed 7 votes to move towards in the Bowl Championship Series. pansion. on four walks. for our team that they earned that expansion; It is believed that UNC The North Carolina schools are “Now, we’ll hold our breath ‘til Tech added another run to in- seed.” and Duke voted against the mea- very adamant about maintaining their we see what happens,” said Braine. sliver box www.nique.net/sliver Someone please tell the fratties that those sunglass neckband things are stupid-looking. to the cute girl in the physics class...stop farting he saved your soul, the least you could do would be to save him a buck cute boys are a good type of evil I've been deemed a "pseudo-hootchie.” I don't know whether to feel flattered or disappointed that I'm not living up to my potential. 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