For obvious reasons, what Virginia coach Brian O’Connor called the “play of the game” was overshadowed.

Virginia’s baseball team has a new favorite sound — or lack thereof. After Michael Schwimer successfully retired Florida State phenom Buster Posey on a liner to short in the ninth inning, a hush fell over the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville.

Long after the clock had struck midnight, Virginia closer Michael Schwimer hurled the 354th pitch of the game and immediately held his breath as the marathon contest with top-ranked North Carolina hung in the balance.

It took 11 innings, but Virginia upended North Carolina in season-saving fashion at the ACC Tournament

Kyle Werman has a jam-packed summer directing countless baseball camps at Virginia’s Davenport Field waiting.

Brian O’Connor is not sure if it has ever happened in ACC Tournament history. O’Connor’s Virginia baseball team, as a reward for earning the No. 6 seed in the league’s postseason event, drew a first-round contest with No. 3 seed North Carolina (45-10, 22-7), which just so happens to be the nation’s top-ranked team.

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

The timing was completely off. The irony was eerily appropriate. As fans filed out of Davenport Field on Saturday, a song written by AC/DC describing a road trip to Satan’s home blasted through the stadium’s speakers.

For the first time in over a month, Virginia exploded offensively against an ACC opponent. Ultimately, it did not matter.

In the first 16 starts of his collegiate career, most of which came last season, Matt Packer had never managed to retire a batter in the seventh inning. That changed Thursday night at Davenport Field in what could easily have been Virginia’s most important contest to date.

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

Kevin McMullan wanted to force the action. Virginia’s third base coach signaled for catcher Franco Valdes to take a pitch after he raced out to a 3-1 lead in the count as the bottom half of the 11th inning started.

Hitting his 10th homer in just his 35th game Sunday did not ease the verbal jabs thrown in the direction of former Virginia standout Sean Doolittle’s direction.

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.

Jacob Thompson has a beef with the baseball gods. For countless reasons, some of his own doing, Virginia’s ace pitcher has witnessed his share of tough luck one season after sporting a perfect record.

Mathematically speaking, Virginia has punched its ticket to the ACC baseball tournament. That happened last weekend in the midst of the Cavaliers’ annual break from league play for exams. 

Franco Valdes was taken back by the encouraging words. Mired in a miserable slump at the plate and a relative unknown at the time, Virginia’s catcher heard encouragement from a smattering of fans fighting early-season chills in March at Davenport Stadium.

How it exactly happened is a miniature mystery to Phil Gosselin. The fact that the Virginia infielder did not need the hamate bone in his wrist only added to his disbelief. The timing, of course, only compounded the situation.

The top-ranked Hurricanes collected 16 hits en route to a 10-0 victory over the Cavaliers in the first lopsided contest of the series. 

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.

Despite being on a strict pitch count around 35, the junior tossed three scoreless innings with two strikeouts to help propel No. 16 Virginia to a 9-1 victory over Georgetown at Davenport Field in a game prolonged by a rain delay.

Franco Valdes and Jarrett Parker also chipped in, helping gift wrap the game with late-inning heroics that lifted Virginia to a 3-2 victory over Wake Forest in 11 innings at Davenport Field.

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.

Behind three scoreless innings of relief work from Davis, the Cavaliers mounted a rally and upended Wake Forest, 4-2, in the opening game of the weekend series.

For the second time in his young life, Pat McAnaney faced a life-altering dilemma - whether to pitch for the Pittsburgh Pirates or the Virginia Cavaliers.

Fueled by a game-changing four-run eighth inning, Coastal Carolina registered an 8-3 victory at Davenport Field on Tuesday, winning its eighth game this season against an ACC opponent.

The Cavaliers, behind a season-best three homers, overcame chilly conditions and whipped Maryland, 11-4, at Shipley Field on Sunday.

UVa first baseman Jeremy Farrell planted a pitch over the left-field wall in the fifth inning for a three-run homer that propelled the Cavaliers to a 5-4 victory over Maryland on Saturday.

Trailing by two runs entering the eighth inning, the Cavaliers batted around and scored six times en route to a lopsided 11-6 win at Shipley Field that seemed improbable for much of the contest.