ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP

May 29, 2021

Evan Justice

Truist Field

NC State Wolfpack

Postgame Press Conference

NC State 8, Georgia Tech 1

Q. Evan, not just when you came into the game tonight but all night your infield rolled three double plays. How big a momentum swing was it when Georgia Tech thought they got something going but the infield kind of shut it down there?

EVAN JUSTICE: Yeah, that was huge, and it's a lot easier as a pitcher going out there and competing knowing you've got those guys behind you and they're always capable of doing something like that, so you pitch them to contact and you've got great players behind you.

Q. You guys were swept by Georgia Tech in your first ACC series of the year. Does this feel like kind of a full circle moment to get through that run that you guys had over the past couple months and end up beating them to go to the ACC championship game?

EVAN JUSTICE: Right, it just so happened that we played them tonight. We go out there and treat everybody the same and just try and compete and play our best baseball every day. It feels good to be where we are now compared to where we were, but just going out there and competing every day is our mindset.

Q. Duke and State were probably the two teams that started off the worst this season in the ACC. You're both the hottest teams in the league now, and you're both competing for a title tomorrow. What characteristics and traits does a team need to have to overcome that and get to the point where you can win a championship?

EVAN JUSTICE: Right, I think that just speaks to the resilience of this team. We never quit, we never put our heads down. We didn't get off to the start we wanted to, but we continued to go to work every day, practice hard and then we found a little rhythm here. Hope to keep it rolling from there.