Baseball
After winning on the road against Stetson for the first time since 2017, No. 7 Florida State baseball is in Charlottesville for a three-game series against No. 10 Virginia starting today:
Two left-handers will square off on both Thursday and Friday followed by a right-handed matchup on Saturday. Two juniors will go in the opener, with FSU’s Wes Mendes (6-1, 1.33 ERA) up against UVA’s Kyle Johnson (0-1, 6.00 ERA). Friday will see the Seminoles’ junior Trey Beard (2-0, 3.58 ERA) face the Cavaliers’
sophomore Max Stammel (2-2, 7.14 ERA). In Saturday’s right-handed finale, junior Bryson Moore (4-1, 5.12 ERA) toes the rubber against freshman John Paone (1-1, 5.02 ERA).
FSU is 22-6 on the season, 7-2 in the ACC, 16-2 at home, 5-1 on the road, 1-3 at a neutral site and 5-3 against ranked opponents. The Seminoles are coming off a 6-3 win at Stetson on Tuesday night to begin the four-game-in-five-day roadtrip. Last weekend, the team notched a home series win against Duke, their third series victory in three weekends to begin ACC play and sixth overall to start the 2026 season. Florida State is off to a 7-2 start or better in the ACC in back-to-back years for the first time since a five-year stretch from 2012-16.
Virginia is 23-7 on the season, including 14-2 at home, 5-5 on the road and 4-0 at a neutral site. The Cavaliers are in fifth place in the ACC with a 7-5 record. UVA is coming off a 16-2, seven-inning win over Old Dominion on Tuesday night. That followed a series loss at Boston College, where Virginia suffered 5-3 and 17-0 defeats before a 3-1 win in the finale. UVA owns ACC series wins at No. 8 North Carolina, vs. Virginia Tech and against No. 24 Wake Forest.
Florida State is 62-34 all-time against Virginia, including 30-10 at home, 20-16 on the road and 12-8 at a neutral site. The series commenced with two games in 1972 but took a 20-year hiatus until 1992, when FSU joined the ACC. The Seminoles won eight in a row in the series and 11 of the first 12. Florida State also took nine consecutive from 1997-2000, and 20 of 22 from 1997-2004. The last six meetings have all come away from home, as UVA took all three in a 2023 series in Charlottesville and FSU posted ACC Tournament wins in 2022 and 2024 and a victory in the College World Series in 2024. That 7-3 win in the CWS was the last matchup between the two programs.
Baseball America named Wes Mendes to its midseason Pitcher of the Year watchlist:
Mendes has always had brilliant stuff, but his results over his first two college seasons never quite lived up to it. That’s changed so far this year, as the Florida State junior has struck out 58 against 11 walks with a 1.33 ERA over 40.2 innings. Mendes allowed more than one earned run in just one of his first seven starts this year.
Mendes, John Abraham and Myles Bailey all received midseason first-team All-American honors from Perfect Game, with Kelvyn Paulino Jr. named to the freshman second team. Abraham and Bailey also were named to D1 Baseball’s first team while Mendes earned a second-team nod:
Softball
No. 10 Florida State welcomes the Notre Dame Fighting Irish to Tallahassee for a three-game series beginning today for Players’ Weekend:
FSU has been on a heater the last month, and it hopes to continue its success this weekend against Notre Dame. FSU has won 21-consecutive games which is the nation’s longest active winning streak and the program’s longest winning streak since 2018. Notre Dame enters this weekend with a 16-19 record and a 5-7 record in the ACC. The Fighting Irish have had some impressive wins this season as they took the series at No. 20 Stanford and run ruled Clemson on March 21.
Football
This week’s Academic All-Stars have been revealed.
All Sports
FSU Splatoon (Esports) announced that the Goldies’ quarterfinals playoff matchup against Oklahoma Baptist. The match will be a best-of-9 series, with the winner advancing to take on either the University of California, Santa Cruz, or Dakota State University.
