Suddenly bubble is an ugly word for the Notre Dame baseball team.
Scrapping, clawing, willing their way to reach the brink of an NCAA Tournament berth with a 16-win surge in a 19-game span after a mid-April heartbreaking series with Boston College, the Irish may have fallen through a trapdoor in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.
Courtesy of more heartache from BC.
Freshman Gavin Soares pitched 4 u2154 innings of one-hit relief and Patrick Roche broke a 4-4 tie with a run-scoring single as the 14th-seeded Eagles ousted 11th seed Notre Dame, 5-4 in 10 innings, in the first round of the ACC Tournament in Durham.