The wind was blowing out Sunday afternoon and the Miami Hurricanes hit a pair of homers to secure a 9-6 win over Georgia Tech.
Miami's bats came alive in the series finale, as the Canes (12-3, 2-1 ACC) smacked 10 hits and put up nine runs to secure a series win in their first weekend of ACC play. The Hurricanes needed every bit of their offensive explosion, as the Yellow Jackets (10-6, 1-2 ACC) made a late charge in the ninth to try and steal a win on getaway day.
"It's a good start, especially after losing the first game and it was a hard-fought where we almost had a chance to win it at the end in the last at-bat," head coach Gino DiMare said. "For us to bounce back and win it in the last at-bat the next night, that makes that home run even bigger now because it gave us an opportunity to win the series and we did and that's a great start."
Georgia Tech's Tristin English continued his torrid series against Miami, hitting a two-run homer in the first inning off Hurricanes' starter Brian Van Belle. The blast was English's third of the weekend and gave the Yellow Jackets a 2-0 lead.

"I just wanted to keep the ball down," Van Belle said. "On that pitch, I hung a change-up and I knew he got all of it. After that, my main focus was to keep the ball down and attack the hitters low in the zone."
But Saturday night's hero Freddy Zamora stayed hot in his first at-bat Sunday, mashing a two-run homer over the scoreboard in left field that landed on the Cobb Stadium track and tied the game at 2-2.
"He's definitely the best player in the series, for sure," DiMare said. "Freddy has made some big strides lately. I can tell in practice and pregame, just his preparation has been outstanding. If he keeps that up, he could be the best shortstop in the country."
Gabe Rivera, who made his first start of the season Sunday, hit a two-out triple to center that drove home Michael Amditis and extended Miami's lead to three, 5-2. Tech starter Brant Hurter hit Jordan Lala with a 1-1 fastball and GT head coach Danny Hall lifted the left-hander in favor of right-handed pitcher Amos Willingham.
Vilar plated two more runs in the sixth, as the freshman ripped a 1-2 pitch from Willingham for a double off the left field wall that gave the Hurricanes a 7-2 advantage.

"It gives you a lot of momentum," Van Belle said of the team's prolific offense. "I feel like at any time in the game, anyone in the lineup from top to bottom can crank one and that's exactly what happened in the first inning. I gave up a two-run bomb and then when we came up to bat Freddy cranked one and put us back in a good spot."
With two outs in the Alex Toral crushed a solo homer off reliever Micah Carpenter that hit off the third deck of the parking garage beyond the right field fence to make it 8-2. But the first baseman's team-leading eighth homer of the season was Miami's sixth of the series and 23rdof the year, tying the 2018 Hurricanes' total season homer tally.

"It says a lot about the job [Norberto Lopez] has done as a hitting coach and what [Brian Gabriel] has done as our strength coach and the work they've done getting stronger, but, most importantly, it says a lot about our players and how they've made a commitment," DiMare said.
"One of the things we stressed was that we needed to be better offensively and they're working behind the scenes to make sure we are. They're working their tails off doing early work on their own before practice and extra work after practice to get better and you can see the fruits of their labor coming to fruition. It's amazing that we have tied that already."
The Canes will wrap up a nine-game homestand this coming Tuesday and Wednesday, as they welcome Jackson State to The Light for a midweek series. Both games are scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.