Georgia Tech baseball coach Danny Hall’s job this week isn’t difficult just because he has to find video of a College of Charleston game. He also has to figure out how the Yellow Jackets can eliminate the NCAA tournament’s top seed on its home field.

It wasn’t worst to first, but you could call it eight to great. The Georgia Tech baseball team, which two Saturdays ago was facing the end of its season, finished its improbable run through the ACC baseball tournament by plowing Miami 8-5 in the title game Sunday in Greensboro, N.

Chelsey Gullickson’s team lost in the NCAA women’s tennis tournament last week. Her bid for a second NCAA singles title withered in a first-round upset loss Wednesday. On Friday, all that remained of her decorated Georgia career was her alliance with Nadja Gilchrist, her doubles partner for much of their four years together.

Locally, it’s down to Georgia’s Will Spencer and Georgia State’s Abigail Tere-Apisah in the singles draw of the NCAA tennis championships. Those were the only players representing local schools who managed to escape the second round and advance to the Round of 16.

Nothing like a little Georgia-Georgia Tech rivalry to heat up the NCAA tournament as singles play began Wednesday. As it turned out, both of Tech’s singles entrants drew Georgia opponents in their first-round draws. The Yellow Jackets earned a split as No.

At a fan event Tuesday night, Georgia Tech athletic director Dan Radakovich affirmed his school’s membership in the ACC while offering commentary on the state of the league. At the league’s spring meetings last week at Amelia Island, Fla., Radakovich said there was a “large level of unanimity among athletic directors and faculty athletic reps to stay the course as the current Atlantic Coast Conference.

Georgia Tech will begin its sale of men’s basketball season tickets Monday for the first season in the new McCamish Pavilion. Season tickets for the 17-game home schedule will be $330 in addition to associated Tech Fund contributions. The ticket price is $105 less than the price for Tech’s 16-game home schedule in 2010-11, the last season in Alexander Memorial Coliseum.

The ACC will try to keep Georgia Tech out of the heat in September. The league issued kickoff times for the first three weeks of the season, none of which leave the Yellow Jackets with a dreaded noon start. As requested of the league, Tech will play its Sept.

Former Auburn guard Thomas O’Reilly has transferred to Georgia Tech, enrolling Wednesday, the school confirmed. After sitting out a season, O’Reilly will have three seasons of eligibility remaining. O’Reilly, from Pope High, chose Auburn over Tech coming out of high school.

The competitiveness that willed Mark Price to an All-American career at Georgia Tech revealed itself again Saturday in Chapel Hill, N.C. Caroline Price’s legs had cramped up, first her calf muscles, then her quadriceps and finally her hamstrings. “I had never cramped before,” said Price, a North Carolina tennis player and daughter of the Tech basketball great.

Facing some of the same shots he's made for years, on a course he’s played hundreds of times, Jonathan Keppler said he was still nervous. More nervous than when he was the Class AAAAA state individual medalist as a Kennesaw Mountain High freshman last week? “Here, for sure,” he said.

Metallic gold paint tends to crumble and wear. White paint can yellow with time and foot traffic. Different polyurethane finishes reflect light differently on high-definition television. Oregon’s "fir forest" basketball court is no template. When Georgia Tech unveils its new McCamish Pavilion in the fall, the court’s appearance will be the product of dozens of hours of thought, effort and learning.

The sky was leaden and weepy, warning away the casual golfer. But playing golf for Georgia Tech is not a casual thing. A little rain didn’t shoo the Yellow Jackets away from the Golf Club of Georgia on Wednesday as they prepared for an NCAA regional tournament date.

Four days after graduation, Georgia Tech’s senior class received a priceless parting gift — a third consecutive season-series victory over Georgia. The Yellow Jackets subdued the Bulldogs with 12 hits, clean defense and a strong start by pitcher Josh Heddinger in an 8-6 win Wednesday night at Russ Chandler Stadium.

The best memory that Georgia Tech first baseman Jake Davies holds of playing Georgia was his first. As a freshman relief pitcher in 2009, Davies entered the game as the Bulldogs, then ranked first in the country, were rallying. In the bottom of the seventh with the score 9-5 in Tech’s favor at Georgia’s Foley Field, Davies was called on with the bases loaded and one out.

An anxious day of waiting Thursday was followed by a night in which a dream materialized. Former Georgia Tech wide receiver Stephen Hill, ranked by one recruiting service as the 99th-best wide receiver in the country in his high school class, turned into the New York Jets’ second-round selection Friday night.

Georgia Tech coach Danny Hall doesn’t expect to see Buck Farmer on his pitching staff next season. That’s the way the college game works. As a starting pitcher for the Yellow Jackets, Farmer has excelled the past two seasons and as a junior will be eligible for the major league draft June 4-6.

Not the biggest fan of spring games, Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson got all he wanted out of the Yellow Jackets’ scrimmage session Friday night at Bobby Dodd Stadium. “The game tonight was great in that nobody got hurt,” Johnson said. The coach had slightly higher expectations for the other 14 practice sessions.

It’s Frank Wren’s ballpark. Tuesday was Kyle Wren’s night. The Georgia Tech center fielder, son of the Braves’ general manager, delivered the game-winning hit against Georgia in the Yellow Jackets’ 4-3 win at Turner Field. From his box seat, the elder Wren watched with approval as Wren yanked a two-out double in the top of the ninth against Bryan Benzor that scored Mott Hyde for the winning run.

With a 24-17 record, the Georgia baseball team is “just kind of digging in,” coach David Perno said. Georgia Tech, which holds an identical record, has no room for mistakes, coach Danny Hall said. They meet Tuesday night at Turner Field for the 355th time, but under different circumstances than usual.

The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets played their annual T-Day spring football game Friday night at Bobby Dodd Stadium in front 18,125 people, the largest crowd in recent memory. The White team won 31-7. Here are the highlights of the night: Days struggles with pass As has been the case this spring, quarterback Synjyn Days ran effectively but had trouble passing with accuracy.

Georgia Tech’s spring game tonight will offer fans a number of clues to what lies ahead for the season, beginning with the opener at Virginia Tech on Labor Day. One spot that may draw increased attention will be the middle of the defense, which will be absent inside linebackers Daniel Drummond and Julian Burnett.

There’s likely only one Georgia Tech student that athletic director Dan Radakovich feels comfortable telling to get out of bed and get to the game — his son Christian. The rest of them, Radakovich has bent to their will. Partially in response to Tech students who said that the Yellow Jackets’ many noon kickoffs last season were too early and too hot, the school has moved its annual spring game to Friday night.

Georgia Tech’s spring game Friday night will offer fans a number of clues to what lies ahead for the 2012 season, beginning with the season opener at Virginia Tech on Labor Day. One spot that may draw increased attention will be the middle of the defense, which will be absent inside linebackers Daniel Drummond and Julian Burnett.

At the start of spring practice, Georgia Tech defensive coordinator Al Groh had an announcement to make to his players. The defense would be adjusted to play to the players’ strengths. Given that players such as defensive ends Izaan Cross and Emmanuel Dieke are more SUV than monster truck, the tweaks would utilize their quickness.