Jason Haniger got two home runs, five RBIs and one shaving cream pie in the face.

And Georgia Tech's baseball team got to smile and laugh a little, just when it needed that most ... in an ACC game.

Tech is 19-1 in non-conference play, but before Friday night's 12-1 romp over Wake Forest the Yellow Jackets had a losing record in the ACC. The Jackets still need a victory today or Sunday to avoid losing four consecutive three-game ACC series for the first time in school history.

More important, Tech needs to keep winning weekend games to assure itself of a spot in the ACC tournament. Tech stands sixth in the league at 11-11. Eight teams make the tournament. Wake (16-26, 7-14) entered Friday night's game in eighth.

"We're neck-and-neck in the ACC," said winning pitcher David Duncan, who struck out seven in eight innings. "Getting a big win will maybe take the wind out of their sails."

Nobody's sails are fuller than Haniger's. He has homered three times in two games this week after giving up the choke-up-on-the-bat, crowd-the-plate technique he had been using.

"I went back to my normal approach, which is basically swing hard and look for fastballs," Haniger said.

He hit a two-run home run in the second, doubled and scored in the fourth and hit a three-run homer in the seventh.

Then, as Haniger stood for a Fox Sports Net interview, designated hitter Luke Murton snuck up behind him and delivered the pie. Haniger had heard Murton tell a teammate about the planned prank.

"I just didn't think he was going to do it," Haniger said as he wiped a dollop of cream off his shirt. "I'll take a shaving cream pie in the face any day for getting three hits."

Brad Feltes and Tony Plagman hit back-to-back homers in the fifth, and Murton doubled twice.

Five of the seven hits losing pitcher Garrett Bullock allowed went for extra bases.

Meanwhile, Duncan (5-2) held Wake to six hits. Duncan retired 12 of 13 batters after Dustin Hood led off the fourth with a home run.

But Duncan's best pitching came when he stranded two runners in the second and third innings. His biggest pitch was a called third strike against Andy Goff with runners at the corners and one out in the second.

"Duncan pitched as well as he's pitched all year," Tech coach Danny Hall said.

"It's pretty nice pitching with a lead," said Duncan, who was up 2-0 after one inning and 4-0 after two. "I've been giving up early runs all year long, and we've been playing from behind."

With eight games left on the ACC schedule, perhaps that has finally changed.