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DURHAM, N.C. – The No. 6-ranked and second-seeded Florida State baseball team will begin the 2025 ACC Baseball Championship in the quarterfinal against No. 7-seeded Duke on Friday, May 23, at 3 p.m. ET.
The winner of Friday’s quarterfinal will advance to the second of two semifinals on Saturday, May 24, at 5 p.m. The championship game at Durham Bulls Athletic Park is set for Sunday, May 25, at noon.
ACC Network will broadcast the quarterfinal and semifinal, with ESPN2 set to televise Sunday’s title game. Fans can listen to every game via the Seminole Sports Network on WFLA 100.7 FM and around the world on the FSU Gameday App and Seminoles.com. Live stats can be found at ACC.Statbroadcast.com. Direct links to watch, listen and follow along can be found on the schedule page at Seminoles.com/Baseball. News, notes and behind-the-scenes updates from Durham also are available by following and connecting with the team on social media on Twitter/X and Facebook (@FSUBaseball) and Instagram (@NoleBaseball). Additional information about the championship is at TheACC.com.
ACC Quarterfinal: Friday, May 23 – 3 p.m. ET
Watch: ACC Network
Listen: WFLA 100.7 FM | FSU Gameday App | Seminoles.com
Live Stats
ACC Semifinal: Saturday, May 24 – 5 p.m. ET
FSU/Duke winner vs. North Carolina/Boston College winner
Watch: ACC Network
Listen: WFLA 100.7 FM | FSU Gameday App | Seminoles.com
Live Stats
ACC Championship Game: Sunday, May 25 – 12 p.m. ET
Semifinal 1 winner vs. Semifinal 2 winner
Watch: ESPN2
Listen: WFLA 100.7 FM | FSU Gameday App | Seminoles.com
Live Stats
Starting pitchers for the quarterfinal matchup have not been announced.
Florida State is 37-13 overall, 24-7 at home, 12-6 on the road and 1-0 at a neutral site. FSU went 17-10 in the ACC and finished in second place with a .630 winning percentage. The ACC runner-up finish and No. 2 seed at the conference tournament are the team’s best since 2014. The Seminoles are one of three ACC teams to win at least 66% of their league series and every non-conference series, with six of nine league series won and four sweeps in non-conference weekend action.
FLORIDA STATE AT THE ACC CHAMPIONSHIP
FSU is 86-44 all-time at the ACC Championship since joining the league for the 1992 season. The Seminoles have won eight ACC postseason titles, in 1995, 1997, 2002, 2004, 2010, 2015, 2017 and 2018. The 2015 and 2018 titles came in Durham, over NC State and Louisville, respectively. Florida State boasts a 26-15 ACC Championship record overall at Durham Bulls Athletic Park, its most wins of any ACC postseason city.
A year ago as the No. 5 seed, the Seminoles won three to advance to the championship game. A 12-9 win over Georgia Tech came before a 12-7 victory over fourth-seeded Virginia. The trip to the title game was sealed with a 9-6 triumph over Wake Forest. Duke prevailed in the finale in Charlotte, 16-4, but the tournament run helped Florida State secure its top-eight national seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Seven players have earned Most Outstanding Player accolades, most recently Cal Raleigh in 2018. All-Tournament Team honorees total 68 from FSU and include Marco Dinges, Drew Faurot and James Tibbs III in 2024.
NATIONALY-RANKED SEMINOLES
The Seminoles are ranked in the top 11 in every major poll this week, including at No. 6 in the D1Baseball rankings. They also are No. 4 in the NCBWA poll, No. 6 in the Coaches top-25, No. 7 according to The Athletic, No. 9 in the Baseball America rankings and No. 11 in the Perfect Game top-25.
NOLES BY THE NUMBERS
FSU has scored 393 runs on 539 hits with a .313 batting average, 89 home runs, 218 walks and 60 stolen bases. The pitching staff owns a 4.71 ERA with 223 earned runs allowed in 425.2 innings with 363 hits, 511 strikeouts and 229 walks.
Junior infielder Alex Lodise leads the team with a .422 batting average, 87 hits, 63 RBI, 17 doubles and 159 total bases and is tied for the team lead with 17 home runs. Junior outfielder Max Williams also has 17 homers and sophomore outfielder Chase Williams has 14 stolen bases. Junior outfielder Gage Harrelson is second with a .340 average, 70 hits and 13 stolen bases while junior infielder Drew Faurot has 47 RBIs, second on the team. On the mound, junior lefty Jamie Arnold is 6-2 with a 2.59 ERA with 90 strikeouts in 66.0 innings. Redshirt junior left-hander Joey Volini is 8-4 with a 3.63 ERA, 91 strikeouts and 24 walks in 74.1 innings. Among relievers, sophomore righty John Abraham is 4-0 with a 4.35 ERA in 31.0 innings with 41 strikeouts.
PLAYER OF THE YEAR HEADLINES ALL-ACC RECOGNITION
Junior shortstop Alex Lodise was named the ACC Player and ACC Defensive Player of the Year after a regular season that puts him among the most elite players in the country.
Lodise is the 10th player in program history to be named ACC Player of the Year and the first to earn ACC Defensive Player of the Year honors. He’s the second player in ACC history and first since 2018 to collect both awards in the same season. Lodise also headlines a list of seven Seminoles named to All-ACC Teams, FSU’s most since 2019 and tied for second-most ever.
Lodise, Arnold and junior second baseman Drew Faurot were named First Team All-ACC. Max Williams and Volini were bestowed with Second Team All-ACC honors and Harrelson earned Third Team All-ACC accolades. Freshman first baseman Myles Bailey was recognized on the All-Freshman Team.
The Seminoles collected multiple ACC yearly honors for the third time, along with three in 2021 and two in 2007. Lodise is the second to earn multiple awards in the same year, joining Parker Messick, the 2021 Pitcher and Freshman of the Year.
For the second time in team history and first since 2007-08, FSU has earned ACC Player of the Year accolades in consecutive years, after James Tibbs III was honored in 2024. Lodise and Tibbs join Tony Thomas Jr. (2007) and Buster Posey (2008) as the back-to-back duos in team history.
NATIONAL AWARD SEMIFINALISTS
Lodise also has been recognized as a semifinalist for three major national awards after a regular season that puts him among the most elite players in the country.
Arnold joins Lodise as a Golden Spikes Award semifinalist, and he and Volini are both semifinalists for the Dick Howser Trophy along with Lodise. The Seminoles are one of two programs with two representatives on the 26-player Golden Spikes list, and they have multiple honorees for the fourth time in team history. FSU is one of four teams with three semifinalists on the Dick Howser Trophy list and the only ACC club.
SERIES HISTORY VS. DUKE
FSU is 83-30 all-time against Duke, including 10-6 at a neutral site, 46-11 at home and 27-12 in road contests. Florida State lost the first two, both at home in 1954, before an NCAA Tournament win on June 1, 1956. The Seminoles won 13 in a row from 1997-2001 and again from 2002-2005, with just one loss in between. Those two streaks were part of a 39-3 stretch from 1995-2007. FSU went 2-2 against Duke in 2024, with a series win in Durham before a loss in the ACC title game in Charlotte, North Carolina. Florida State notched 4-2 and 7-6 wins on April 26 and 27 before a 16-4 defeat in the finale. On May 26, the Blue Devils prevailed with a 16-4 win.
In the ACC Tournament, Florida State is 7-2 against Duke following last year’s defeat, the first between the two clubs in the title game. The first matchup was in 1996 in Durham, where top-seeded FSU bested seventh-seeded Duke, 7-3. No. 2 FSU topped No. 7 DU 4-2 and 12-2 in 1997 in St. Petersburg, Florida. The teams also met in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2017 and 2021.
SCOUTING THE BLUE DEVILS
Duke, who advanced to the quarterfinal with a 4-3, walk-off win over Pitt on Wednesday, earned the No. 7 seed in the ACC Championship. The Blue Devils are 37-18 overall, 29-9 at home, 7-9 on the road and 1-0 at a neutral site. DU went 17-13 in the ACC for the seventh-place finish. Last weekend, Duke lost a home series to Georgia Tech. The Blue Devils are 6-6 against top-25 foes, which includes a sweep at then-No. 23 Virginia, a series win at No. 9 Clemson, a series defeat at No. 19 North Carolina and a trio of losses at No. 18 Stanford.
UP NEXT: NCAA REGIONALS
The NCAA Tournament begins with regionals next weekend from May 30-June 1, with the postseason field announced on Monday, May 26 from 12-1 p.m. ET, on ESPN2. FSU will learn its NCAA Regional seeding and opponents as the team officially earns its 61st postseason berth. The 16 regional host sites will be announced the night before, on May 25.
Florida State fans are invited to Bowden’s in CollegeTown on May 26 for the selection show and a special episode of Inside Seminole Baseball featuring FSU head coach Link Jarrett and players. Inside Seminole Baseball will air live from 1-2 p.m. Additional information about the event can be found here.
LAST TIME OUT: A WIN FOR ACC RUNNER-UP
In the second top-five series in Tallahassee in three weeks, FSU lost a three-game series to No. 4 North Carolina from May 15-17, just the team’s third series loss of the year. A 5-4 comeback victory in the finale helped FSU secure its second-place ACC finish to conclude the regular season. The matchup between two 2024 College World Series teams pitted two of the top four teams in the standings against each other.
In the opener on May 15, the Tar Heels earned an 8-3 win behind a complete game from their starter. FSU’s three runs on four hits included a home run and two RBI from Lodise and two hits by sophomore third baseman Cal Fisher. Arnold suffered just his second loss in 2025. UNC led 1-0 in the first and 4-0 in the fifth. FSU scored its first run in the bottom of the fifth and added two in the bottom of the sixth, but that came after North Carolina added four in the top half.
FSU suffered an 11-1 loss in the middle game on May 16. Florida State was held to one run on seven hits. Bailey had an RBI, Lodise scored one run as Volini fell to 8-4.
The Seminoles rallied with two eighth-inning runs to win the finale, 5-4. Bailey drove in the winning score with a two-out single in the eighth inning, one batter after Max Williams singled in the tying run. That followed UNC taking its first lead of the game with a solo home run in the top of the inning. Abraham got the win, pitching the final 1.1 innings of no-hit ball with three strikeouts. Sophomore lefty Wes Mendes held UNC to two runs on four hits in 6.1 innings.
A complete recap can be found here: Thursday | Friday | Saturday
For more information on Florida State baseball, check Seminoles.com for the latest news and scheduling information, and keep up with the team on social media through Twitter/X and Facebook (@FSUBaseball) & Instagram (@NoleBaseball).
The winner of Friday’s quarterfinal will advance to the second of two semifinals on Saturday, May 24, at 5 p.m. The championship game at Durham Bulls Athletic Park is set for Sunday, May 25, at noon.
ACC Network will broadcast the quarterfinal and semifinal, with ESPN2 set to televise Sunday’s title game. Fans can listen to every game via the Seminole Sports Network on WFLA 100.7 FM and around the world on the FSU Gameday App and Seminoles.com. Live stats can be found at ACC.Statbroadcast.com. Direct links to watch, listen and follow along can be found on the schedule page at Seminoles.com/Baseball. News, notes and behind-the-scenes updates from Durham also are available by following and connecting with the team on social media on Twitter/X and Facebook (@FSUBaseball) and Instagram (@NoleBaseball). Additional information about the championship is at TheACC.com.
ACC Quarterfinal: Friday, May 23 – 3 p.m. ET
Watch: ACC Network
Listen: WFLA 100.7 FM | FSU Gameday App | Seminoles.com
Live Stats
ACC Semifinal: Saturday, May 24 – 5 p.m. ET
FSU/Duke winner vs. North Carolina/Boston College winner
Watch: ACC Network
Listen: WFLA 100.7 FM | FSU Gameday App | Seminoles.com
Live Stats
ACC Championship Game: Sunday, May 25 – 12 p.m. ET
Semifinal 1 winner vs. Semifinal 2 winner
Watch: ESPN2
Listen: WFLA 100.7 FM | FSU Gameday App | Seminoles.com
Live Stats
Starting pitchers for the quarterfinal matchup have not been announced.
Florida State is 37-13 overall, 24-7 at home, 12-6 on the road and 1-0 at a neutral site. FSU went 17-10 in the ACC and finished in second place with a .630 winning percentage. The ACC runner-up finish and No. 2 seed at the conference tournament are the team’s best since 2014. The Seminoles are one of three ACC teams to win at least 66% of their league series and every non-conference series, with six of nine league series won and four sweeps in non-conference weekend action.
FLORIDA STATE AT THE ACC CHAMPIONSHIP
FSU is 86-44 all-time at the ACC Championship since joining the league for the 1992 season. The Seminoles have won eight ACC postseason titles, in 1995, 1997, 2002, 2004, 2010, 2015, 2017 and 2018. The 2015 and 2018 titles came in Durham, over NC State and Louisville, respectively. Florida State boasts a 26-15 ACC Championship record overall at Durham Bulls Athletic Park, its most wins of any ACC postseason city.
A year ago as the No. 5 seed, the Seminoles won three to advance to the championship game. A 12-9 win over Georgia Tech came before a 12-7 victory over fourth-seeded Virginia. The trip to the title game was sealed with a 9-6 triumph over Wake Forest. Duke prevailed in the finale in Charlotte, 16-4, but the tournament run helped Florida State secure its top-eight national seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Seven players have earned Most Outstanding Player accolades, most recently Cal Raleigh in 2018. All-Tournament Team honorees total 68 from FSU and include Marco Dinges, Drew Faurot and James Tibbs III in 2024.
NATIONALY-RANKED SEMINOLES
The Seminoles are ranked in the top 11 in every major poll this week, including at No. 6 in the D1Baseball rankings. They also are No. 4 in the NCBWA poll, No. 6 in the Coaches top-25, No. 7 according to The Athletic, No. 9 in the Baseball America rankings and No. 11 in the Perfect Game top-25.
NOLES BY THE NUMBERS
FSU has scored 393 runs on 539 hits with a .313 batting average, 89 home runs, 218 walks and 60 stolen bases. The pitching staff owns a 4.71 ERA with 223 earned runs allowed in 425.2 innings with 363 hits, 511 strikeouts and 229 walks.
Junior infielder Alex Lodise leads the team with a .422 batting average, 87 hits, 63 RBI, 17 doubles and 159 total bases and is tied for the team lead with 17 home runs. Junior outfielder Max Williams also has 17 homers and sophomore outfielder Chase Williams has 14 stolen bases. Junior outfielder Gage Harrelson is second with a .340 average, 70 hits and 13 stolen bases while junior infielder Drew Faurot has 47 RBIs, second on the team. On the mound, junior lefty Jamie Arnold is 6-2 with a 2.59 ERA with 90 strikeouts in 66.0 innings. Redshirt junior left-hander Joey Volini is 8-4 with a 3.63 ERA, 91 strikeouts and 24 walks in 74.1 innings. Among relievers, sophomore righty John Abraham is 4-0 with a 4.35 ERA in 31.0 innings with 41 strikeouts.
PLAYER OF THE YEAR HEADLINES ALL-ACC RECOGNITION
Junior shortstop Alex Lodise was named the ACC Player and ACC Defensive Player of the Year after a regular season that puts him among the most elite players in the country.
Lodise is the 10th player in program history to be named ACC Player of the Year and the first to earn ACC Defensive Player of the Year honors. He’s the second player in ACC history and first since 2018 to collect both awards in the same season. Lodise also headlines a list of seven Seminoles named to All-ACC Teams, FSU’s most since 2019 and tied for second-most ever.
Lodise, Arnold and junior second baseman Drew Faurot were named First Team All-ACC. Max Williams and Volini were bestowed with Second Team All-ACC honors and Harrelson earned Third Team All-ACC accolades. Freshman first baseman Myles Bailey was recognized on the All-Freshman Team.
The Seminoles collected multiple ACC yearly honors for the third time, along with three in 2021 and two in 2007. Lodise is the second to earn multiple awards in the same year, joining Parker Messick, the 2021 Pitcher and Freshman of the Year.
For the second time in team history and first since 2007-08, FSU has earned ACC Player of the Year accolades in consecutive years, after James Tibbs III was honored in 2024. Lodise and Tibbs join Tony Thomas Jr. (2007) and Buster Posey (2008) as the back-to-back duos in team history.
NATIONAL AWARD SEMIFINALISTS
Lodise also has been recognized as a semifinalist for three major national awards after a regular season that puts him among the most elite players in the country.
Arnold joins Lodise as a Golden Spikes Award semifinalist, and he and Volini are both semifinalists for the Dick Howser Trophy along with Lodise. The Seminoles are one of two programs with two representatives on the 26-player Golden Spikes list, and they have multiple honorees for the fourth time in team history. FSU is one of four teams with three semifinalists on the Dick Howser Trophy list and the only ACC club.
SERIES HISTORY VS. DUKE
FSU is 83-30 all-time against Duke, including 10-6 at a neutral site, 46-11 at home and 27-12 in road contests. Florida State lost the first two, both at home in 1954, before an NCAA Tournament win on June 1, 1956. The Seminoles won 13 in a row from 1997-2001 and again from 2002-2005, with just one loss in between. Those two streaks were part of a 39-3 stretch from 1995-2007. FSU went 2-2 against Duke in 2024, with a series win in Durham before a loss in the ACC title game in Charlotte, North Carolina. Florida State notched 4-2 and 7-6 wins on April 26 and 27 before a 16-4 defeat in the finale. On May 26, the Blue Devils prevailed with a 16-4 win.
In the ACC Tournament, Florida State is 7-2 against Duke following last year’s defeat, the first between the two clubs in the title game. The first matchup was in 1996 in Durham, where top-seeded FSU bested seventh-seeded Duke, 7-3. No. 2 FSU topped No. 7 DU 4-2 and 12-2 in 1997 in St. Petersburg, Florida. The teams also met in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2017 and 2021.
SCOUTING THE BLUE DEVILS
Duke, who advanced to the quarterfinal with a 4-3, walk-off win over Pitt on Wednesday, earned the No. 7 seed in the ACC Championship. The Blue Devils are 37-18 overall, 29-9 at home, 7-9 on the road and 1-0 at a neutral site. DU went 17-13 in the ACC for the seventh-place finish. Last weekend, Duke lost a home series to Georgia Tech. The Blue Devils are 6-6 against top-25 foes, which includes a sweep at then-No. 23 Virginia, a series win at No. 9 Clemson, a series defeat at No. 19 North Carolina and a trio of losses at No. 18 Stanford.
UP NEXT: NCAA REGIONALS
The NCAA Tournament begins with regionals next weekend from May 30-June 1, with the postseason field announced on Monday, May 26 from 12-1 p.m. ET, on ESPN2. FSU will learn its NCAA Regional seeding and opponents as the team officially earns its 61st postseason berth. The 16 regional host sites will be announced the night before, on May 25.
Florida State fans are invited to Bowden’s in CollegeTown on May 26 for the selection show and a special episode of Inside Seminole Baseball featuring FSU head coach Link Jarrett and players. Inside Seminole Baseball will air live from 1-2 p.m. Additional information about the event can be found here.
LAST TIME OUT: A WIN FOR ACC RUNNER-UP
In the second top-five series in Tallahassee in three weeks, FSU lost a three-game series to No. 4 North Carolina from May 15-17, just the team’s third series loss of the year. A 5-4 comeback victory in the finale helped FSU secure its second-place ACC finish to conclude the regular season. The matchup between two 2024 College World Series teams pitted two of the top four teams in the standings against each other.
In the opener on May 15, the Tar Heels earned an 8-3 win behind a complete game from their starter. FSU’s three runs on four hits included a home run and two RBI from Lodise and two hits by sophomore third baseman Cal Fisher. Arnold suffered just his second loss in 2025. UNC led 1-0 in the first and 4-0 in the fifth. FSU scored its first run in the bottom of the fifth and added two in the bottom of the sixth, but that came after North Carolina added four in the top half.
FSU suffered an 11-1 loss in the middle game on May 16. Florida State was held to one run on seven hits. Bailey had an RBI, Lodise scored one run as Volini fell to 8-4.
The Seminoles rallied with two eighth-inning runs to win the finale, 5-4. Bailey drove in the winning score with a two-out single in the eighth inning, one batter after Max Williams singled in the tying run. That followed UNC taking its first lead of the game with a solo home run in the top of the inning. Abraham got the win, pitching the final 1.1 innings of no-hit ball with three strikeouts. Sophomore lefty Wes Mendes held UNC to two runs on four hits in 6.1 innings.
A complete recap can be found here: Thursday | Friday | Saturday
For more information on Florida State baseball, check Seminoles.com for the latest news and scheduling information, and keep up with the team on social media through Twitter/X and Facebook (@FSUBaseball) & Instagram (@NoleBaseball).
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