Seminoles rally for dramatic ACC victory

hit his second two-run home run of the game in the bottom of the 12th inning, lifting Florida State past Notre Dame 5-3 on Wednesday at a rainy Atlantic Coast Conference tournament.

Lueck also homered in the sixth before ending it six innings later for the eighth-seeded Seminoles (36-20), who will advance to the semifinal round if they beat top-seeded Louisville (46-9) on Friday.

“I've been blessed to be involved in a number of baseball games at Florida State. I've been on the other end, and I've been on the end that we were on tonight. That one was, you might say, one for the ages, with the conditions what they were,” FSU coach

said.

“Our young men were battling. Notre Dame was battling. I can’t say enough about just the atmosphere in the dugouts, and sometimes you're a little disappointed that there weren't a lot of people here to see it. But there were people watching it on TV, and they got their money's worth.”

started Florida State's rally with a two-out single in the 12th before Lueck lofted a 1-2 pitch over the left-field fence off (3-5).

(2-3) struck out two in two innings. hit two solo home runs for the 12th-seeded Fighting Irish (26-31). The start of the game was delayed for 3 hours due to rain, then delayed for 38 minutes in the eighth.

Rain in the forecast has postponed UCF’s elimination game against Tulane until 11 a.m. today in the American Athletic Conference Tournament at Spectrum Stadium in Clearwater.

The contest was originally set to be played at noon Wednesday, but the AAC pushed the game back a day because of looming storms rain. No. 1 UCF dropped its opening game in the tournament 14-3 against No. 8 ECU on Tuesday night.