Connelly Early’s pitch count was climbing by the sixth inning of Saturday’s game when Duke and the Blue Devils were trying to fight their way back into the game, trailing host Virginia 10-3.

The Virginia bats came alive with the season on the line Saturday at Disharoon Park, as the Cavaliers cranked out 14 runs on 14 hits — highlighted by a record-breaking day from junior third baseman Jake Gelof — and lived to fight another day.

Had Friday’s opener of the NCAA Super Regional been played in Hollywood rather than Charlottesville, no doubt Jake Gelof would have been the hero.

With two outs and the winning run aboard in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game One of the best-of-three NCAA Super Regional against Duke, Virginia junior power-hitting third baseman Jake Gelof stepped into the batter’s box.

With Duke coming to Virginia this weekend for a rematch of a late-April series, Cavalier fans are hoping their heroes can avenge one of the only two home ACC series UVA suffered this season.

Of the 16 hosts of NCAA Baseball regionals last weekend, Virginia finished seventh in total attendance and first among all four ACC host sites.

Tickets to this weekend’s Charlottesville Super Regional are officially sold out. Virginia, the No. 7 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, will host Duke in a best-of-three series at Disharoon Park.

Virginia catcher Kyle Teel is one of three finalists for the Buster Posey Catcher of the Year Award. He is the first Virginia backstop to be named a finalist for the award.

Through six innings Sunday night, the Cavaliers had mustered only one run on five hits and left five runners stranded, including bases loaded in the third.

Andrew Abbott was jacked up to the max on Monday night, making his Major League debut with the Cincinnati Reds.

Virginia junior center fielder Ethan O’Donnell picked a perfect time to record his first and only hit of the Charlottesville Regional during Sunday’s final against East Carolina at Disharoon Park.

Former Virginia star pitcher Andrew Abbott will make his Major League Baseball debut tonight when the lefthander takes the mound for the Cincinnati Reds against the Milwaukee Brewers.

When Nick Parker was in a Coastal Carolina uniform last June and turned in a dominating performance against East Carolina in the NCAA Regionals, little did he know that his future coaches were watching closely.

Virginia second-year first baseman Ethan Anderson dropped a go-ahead, RBI single into right field to score Ethan O’Donnell and break a 1-1 tie in the bottom of the seventh inning in Saturday’s crucial matchup against East Carolina.

Starting right-handed pitcher Brian Edgington handcuffed the Army batting order, hurling five innings of perfect baseball,

In front of a record postseason crowd at Disharoon Park Friday, the seventh-seeded Virginia baseball team gave the 5,487 Cavalier fans in attendance plenty of reasons to cheer in a 15-1 drubbing of Army to open the Charlottesville Regional.

Brian O’Connor is encouraging Virginia baseball fans to play hooky from work Friday afternoon and instead spend the time at Disharoon Park, where the Cavaliers open NCAA play at high noon against Army.

Postseason baseball is back at the University of Virginia for the first time in seven years, as the Cavaliers earned the No. 7 seed in the NCAA Championship.

Brian O’Connor hasn’t gone as far as anointing this year’s team as the best offensive squad he’s coached in his 20 years at Virginia, but the coach will readily tell you it ranks right up there with his greatest.

Army coach Chris Tracz talks with Hootie about the Cadets season, the program’s fifth straight Patriot League championship and gives great insight into his team, which will take on Virginia in the Charlottesville regional opener this Friday.