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Tech gets bounced
Georgia Tech
DURHAM, N.C. — Freshman Jonathan King gave Georgia Tech a solid start in his first postseason appearance, but Virginia Tech broke a 2-2 tie in the seventh inning and hung on to beat the Yellow Jackets in the teams' pool-play finale Friday afternoon at the ACC Baseball Championship in Durham, N.C. The seventh-seeded Jackets (34-25), who won last year's ACC title, led twice in the game, seizing a 1-0 lead in the third and nudging ahead 2-1 in the fifth before the sixth-seeded Hokies (38-19) scored once in the fifth and once in the seventh to earn a spot in Sunday's ACC championship game. Tech's postseason fate now rests with the NCAA selection committee, who announces the 2013 NCAA field on Monday at 12 p.m. on ESPNU. The Jackets resume is strong with an RPI of 22, a No. 2-rated strength of schedule, 20 wins over the RPI top 100 and regular-season series wins over RPI-No.