With his family watching from the bleachers, John Bivens strolled up to the batter’s box with his adrenaline racing.

Few players, if any ever, have been able to officially report to a Major League team with a drive shorter than the one Jacob Thompson will make.

A relative unknown in baseball recruiting circles, Peter Hissey was fascinated when Virginia offered a scholarship last year.

As of Tuesday, the four Virginia baseball players with a year of eligibility remaining are at opposite ends of the post-MLB draft spectrum.

Given the enormity of games played in baseball, picking a season-defining moment is near impossible.

Virginia pitcher Andrew Carraway and his knee-buckling slider proved otherwise — the junior escaped the seventh and the Cavaliers used an offensive explosion fueled by their rookies to register an 8-2 victory at Goodwin Field.

Jacob Thompson will start for Virginia against UCLA Friday night.

UVa will open play Friday at 7 p.m. against second-seeded UCLA (31-25), and Cal State Fullerton (37-19), the regional’s top seed and the No. 5 national seed, will host Rider (29-26) at 11 p.m.

As David Adams, the draft-eligible junior enters the ACC Tournament on Wednesday, his batting average stands at a pedestrian .279.

Numerous avid Virginia baseball fans were left scratching their heads when Michael Schwimer went undrafted last summer.

With both teams aware that a delay for lightning was a matter of minutes away, Jeremy Farrell lifted the Cavaliers to a 5-4 victory in the sixth — and final — inning over second-ranked North Carolina.

For the first time since 2006, North Carolina has claimed a regular season series over Virginia.

Behind a display of timely hitting and a dominant dose of pitching in the final frame, William & Mary upended Virginia, 6-5, at Davenport Field to win for the first time in the series since 2001.

With 12 runs in the middle-third of the game, Wake Forest routed Virginia, 14-3, to even the three-game weekend series at Davenport Field.

Florida State scored lone runs in the 10th inning in a pair of contests to register back-to-back 3-2 wins during a doubleheader at Dick Howser Stadium.