Florida State needed a pair of rallies to complete a sweep on Sunday. The Seminoles did it with two-out, run-producing hits.
Brody DeLamielleure had a two-run home run and an RBI double, Nathan Cmeyla had a two-run triple and FSU defeated Notre Dame 6-4 on Sunday to complete its second sweep of an ACC opponent this season.
FSU faced quite a bit of adversity from the start on Sunday, from Cooper Whited’s fill-in start to losing John Stuetzer in the second inning after he injured his left hand while caught stealing at third base. A Gabe Fraser error also led to a Notre Dame run in the fourth, and a wild pitch that Hunter Carns couldn’t block went to the backstop and eventually led to another Notre Dame run in the fifth.
But the Seminoles (28-11, 12-6 ACC) were fortunate as DeLamielleure, who took over in right field after Stuetzer’s injury, hit a home run in the fourth to tie the game at 2. DeLamielleure hit his fourth home run of 2026 and went 2 for 3.
“The guy works so hard and it's been a bumpy road for him health-wise to get to this point,” FSU coach Link Jarrett said.
FSU rallied with a four-run seventh — all of it with two outs. Brayden Dowd had an opposite-field double against the shift and then Chase Williams had a double that hopped over third base. Williams stole third base, Hunter Carns earned a full-count walk and Cmeyla hit an improbable triple to the gap in left-center field — his first of the season — to give FSU the 5-4 lead. DeLamielleure added an RBI double.
FSU had 11 hits, with seven of them for extra bases.
Whited started and pitched 3.1 innings. He had three strikeouts but also gave up two walks and a wild pitch, allowing a run in the third and another in the fourth.
While Cole Stokes and Cade O’Leary (two innings) each gave up an earned run, Brodie Purcell tossed a scoreless seventh and Chris Knier shut the door with two shutout innings. Knier struck out Mason Barth to end the game.
“Knier was as good as we've seen him in a while,” Jarrett said. “... You could tell that he wanted to finish that. And I thought the velocity was better. The slider was good.”
Fraser went 2 for 4 with a double to lead off the third. Oddly, FSU elected to have Eli Putnam bunt him over. But Carter McCulley struck out and Dowd flew out to end the scoring opportunity in the third.
Mark Quatrani went 2 for 5 for Notre Dame, which is now 17-18 in an up-and-down season. The Fighting Irish had won series against Clemson and Duke but are now 7-14 in ACC play.
FSU secured a fifth ACC series win on Saturday — Wake Forest, NC State, Duke, Virginia and Notre Dame. After a frustrating sweep at Georgia Tech, FSU bounced back in a big way.
“It was huge. Not only to win the series but to sweep,” Cmeyla said. “Being swept last weekend was a tough feeling. … It’s huge for us. We’re going to keep riding this Tuesday and next week also.”
Up next
FSU plays at North Florida on Tuesday at 6 p.m. (ESPN+).
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