Duke comes up short in series opener

DURHAM – Things just went awry with pitching and defense in one inning for Duke’s baseball team in a series opener against Georgia Tech on Thursday night at Jack Coombs Field. That seventh inning proved too costly, as did the Blue Devils’ failure to deliver big hits with traffic on the basepaths for most of the night, in a 7-6 loss to the Yellow Jackets. “I thought we pitched great eight out of the nine innings. Credit Georgia Tech, I thought that they did a good job putting together some quality at-bats there in the seventh against our best arm,”…