Tech’s tennis star upset

ACC player of year Eubanks bested in quarterfinal round.

Christopher Eubanks’ bid for an NCAA singles title ended in the quarterfinal round Saturday.

The Georgia Tech junior lost to Virginia’s Thai-Son Kwiatkowski 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 in Athens. After splitting the first two sets with Kwiatkowski, Eubanks was broken at 1-1 in the third and was not able to break back.

Eubanks, who became just the fifth player in ACC history and the first in Tech history to be named the league’s player of the year two years in a row, ends his season at 31-6 and will earn All-American honors for the second year in a row.

Kwiatkowski was the first player to win a set off Eubanks in his NCAA run. Kwiatkowski was actually the last player to beat Eubanks before Saturday. He had won eight matches in a row since Kwiatkowski had beaten him in a tight two-setter in the teams’ match on April 13.

It was Eubanks’ farthest advance into the NCAA singles championship in three trips. He became the first Tech player to reach that stage since Bryan Shelton’s run to the quarters in 1988.

Arkansas blasts Florida 16-0 in SEC

Chad Spanberger homered in each of the first two innings and Arkansas rolled to a 16-0 victory over topseeded Florida on Saturday in the semifinals of the Southeastern Conference Tournament in Hoover, Ala.

The Razorbacks (42-16) won after seven innings on the mercy rule and face 11-time champion LSU in today’s championship game. LSU beat South Carolina 11-0, also in seven innings.

Spanberger had a two-run shot in the first and added a solo homer in the next inning while scoring three times. Like Spanberger, Dominic Fletcher and Eric Cole also homered, had three hits and scored three runs. Fletcher drove in four runs.

Jax Biggers had three hits and three RBIs.

Kacey Murphy (5-0) allowed two hits in seven innings for Arkansas. He struck out eight.

Jonathan India and Austin Langworthy had the only hits for the Gators (42-16). Florida had advanced with an eight-run 11th inning to rally past Mississippi State.

LSU 11, South Carolina 0: Greg Deichmann homered twice as LSU beat South Carolina 11-0 in the SEC Tournament semifinals.

The game ended after the seventh inning under the 10-run mercy rule.

The Tigers (42-17) will try for their 12th league tournament championship today.

FSU beats Duke 5-1, reaches title game

Dylan Busby homered, doubled and drove in three runs, and Florida State beat Duke 5-1 on Saturday to advance to the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game in Louisville, Ky.

Busby hit a two-run homer in the third inning and added an RBI double an inning later to help the eighth-seeded Seminoles (38-20) reach their third straight ACC title game.

Cole Sands (6-3) struck out eight in 6⅔ innings.

Adam Laskey (4-5) allowed four runs for the ninthseeded Blue Devils (30-28). They were denied their first ACC championship game berth. Duke scored its run in the ninth on Jack Labosky’s single.

Jackson Lueck tripled in Florida State’s first run in the first, then scored on Quincy Nieporte’s groundout.