Virginia to Face ACC Rival Duke in NCAA Super Regional

No. 7 seed Virginia (48-12) will face Duke (38-22) in the Super Regional round of the 2023 NCAA Baseball Tournament next weekend at Disharoon Park. The full schedule for the Super Regional will be announced later this week. 

UVA took down East Carolina 8-3 on Sunday night to clinch the Charlottesville Regional and advance to the Super Regional for the eighth time in program history. Duke defeated No. 10 seed Coastal Carolina 12-3 on Monday night to win the Conway Regional, setting up a three-game series rematch between the ACC rivals. 

Duke caught Virginia on the back end of a slump at the end of April, taking two out of three games off the Cavaliers in Charlottesville. The Blue Devils defeated the Cavaliers 17-5 on Friday. UVA came back to win game 2 on Saturday 10-2, but Duke won the rubber match 7-3 to claim the series. 

That marked UVA's third-consecutive ACC series loss. Since then, however, the Cavaliers have rediscovered their groove, ending the regular season on a nine-game winning streak and bringing a 13-1 record over their last 14 games into the Super Regional. That included a strong showing this weekend in Charlottesville Regional, beating Army 15-1 on Friday, East Carolina 2-1 on Saturday, and East Carolina again 8-3 on Sunday. 

Virginia is hosting a Super Regional for the first time since 2015, the year that the Cavaliers won their first-ever national championship.