ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, May 18, 1996 TAG: 9605200063
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-2 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: DURHAM, N.C.
SOURCE: Associated Press
Pat Daneker threw Virginia's third complete game in as many days in the Atlantic Coast Conference baseball tournament as the surprising Cavaliers upset Clemson 4-2 Friday night.
The right-handed Daneker (7-5) threw a six-hitter, striking out five and walking two as the fifth-seeded Cavaliers (39-18) set a single-season school record for wins, surpassing the 38 won by the 1985 team.
Virginia, the only undefeated team remaining in the field, plays Georgia Tech this morning. The second-seeded Tigers (45-14) play top-seeded Florida State in the second game.
Virginia's pitching staff has given up only five runs and 16 hits in 27 innings in the double elimination tournament. The Cavaliers have committed only one error in three games.
Daneker was matched in a scoreless pitching duel with Clemson's Ken Vining through three innings, but the Cavaliers struck for three runs in the bottom of the fourth after two were out.
Symmion Willis, Virginia's former quarterback, lined a two-run double to the left-center gap. Brian Sherlock then knocked in Willis with a single for a 3-0 Virginia lead.
Doug Livingston's long homer over the left field wall narrowed the score to 3-1, but Daneker worked out of major jam in the seventh after allowing a pair of singles to lead off the inning.
The sophomore right-hander got a fly out to right field and then induced Kurt Bultmann to hit into an inning-ending 6-4-3 double play.
Virginia added an insurance run in the eighth inning before Daneker allowed a run in the ninth, but he got two fly outs with the potential game-winning run at the plate.
Vining (9-3) allowed six hits and struck out a career-tying 12 Virginia hitters in 7 2/3 innings.
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