“Overall, we’re playing okay, but not quite the way I want to see us play,” Miami head coach Gino DiMare said. “The good thing is we won the game, but we have a lot to improve on. All facets. I want to see us clean things up and play a lot better.”
The Miami Hurricanes opened ACC play with a bang on Friday night at Mark Light Field, handing No. 19 NC State its first loss of the season in a 9-8 victory.
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“We have to stop pressing and putting too much pressure on ourselves,” head coach Gino DiMare said. “We need to act a little bit more mature at the plate and handle those situations better. We’ll learn from it.”
No. 22 Miami entered Friday’s matchup against Dartmouth with the third-most home runs in the country at 15. By the end of the game, the Hurricanes had mashed two more – both three-run shots – to beat the Big Green 9-7 at Mark Light Field for their fifth consecutive victory.