SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Clemson not only completed a sweep of Notre Dame with a 6-2 victory on Saturday at Frank Eck Stadium in South Bend, Ind., but the Tigers also clinched the No. 6 seed in next week’s ACC Championships.

By being a top six seed, Clemson avoids having to play in the tournament’s play-in games, which begins on Tuesday in Durham, N.C. Clemson will begin play on either Wednesday or Thursday. The ACC will release the ACC Championships’ schedule on Sunday.

“I’m very proud of our guys. We fought and found a way to sweep this series and put ourselves in good position going into the ACC Tournament, and maybe get us in that conversation for playing at home (in the NCAA Regional),” Clemson head coach Monte Lee said.

The Tigers finished the regular season with a 38-18 overall record and a 16-14 mark in the ACC. It marks the eighth straight year they finished with a winning record in conference play.

Clemson finished the regular season with 12 victories in its last 16 games. With the strong finish, the Tigers have secured an NCAA Tournament berth, and they can still earn a home regional with a good showing at next week’s ACC Championships.

“We still have to take care of business,” Lee said. “We have to go into the ACC Tournament and play well. That is all we can worry about right now. I’m very proud that we are not in a play-in game situation. That gives our guys an extra day’s rest and let’s see what happens.”

For the second straight game Clemson grabbed the lead in the top of the first, and for the second straight game the Tigers plated two runners.

They took a 2-0 lead when Seth Beer singled through the right side to score Chase Pinder from second. Three batters later, Weston Wilson singled to left field, allowing Eli White to come home from third for the 2-0 lead. Pinder and White drew back-to-back walks to open the game.

Clemson extend the lead to 4-0 in the top of the third inning when Chris Okey blasted a shot to left field with one out for a two-run home run. The homer scored Beer, who reached on strikeout and wild pitch from Notre Dame reliever Conner Hale.

The home run was Okey’s 12th of the season.

Chris Williams hit a two-run home run in the top of the ninth inning down the right field line for a 6-0 lead. Wilson, who reached on an error to lead off the inning, also scored on the Williams’ home run. It was Williams’ second home run of the series and his seventh of the season.

“Chris Williams’ homer late, obviously, helped us tremendously because they brought the tying run up there in the ninth inning,” Lee said. “They battled there and put themselves in a position to make something happen. It was a good thing we added two more runs their in the top of the ninth inning.”

The Irish (27-27, 11-17 ACC) had their chances early on. They got the lead-off batter on in each of the first five innings, but came away with nothing. However, Clemson starter Alex Eubanks continuously got out of trouble.

In the second inning, Notre Dame had runners on second and third with no outs after Kyle Richardson singled and Matt Vierling doubled down the left field line. But Eubanks got Ryan Lidge to strikeout and then Kyle Fiala to pop up to Okey behind the plate for the second out. He got out of the jam by jamming up Nick Podkul for the third out.

In the third inning, the Irish got a lead-off double by Cavan Biggio and then James Nevant got on after Eubanks hit him on a 3-2 count. But Ricky Sanchez lined out to right field and Beer doubled up Biggio, who was moving on the play, at second base.

In the fourth inning, Richardson doubled down the left field line to lead things off, but he was stranded at third after Vierling grounded out to second, Lidge popped up to third base and Fiala lined out to third base.

Notre Dame got lead off hits in the first and fifth innings, too, but got nothing in those innings as well. The Irish were 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position and 3-for-19 with runners on base.

Eubanks (5-5) closed five innings with a strikeout and finished the game with nine strikeouts overall. The righty went seven innings and did not allow a run on seven hits, while throwing 113 pitches.

“You have to give a lot of credit to Alex Eubanks. We needed him to go deep in the ballgame and he did just that,” Lee said. “I thought he threw the ball very well. We had to help him out a little bit. He had to pitch out of some jams and we made some nice plays behind him.”

Notre Dame got two runs in the bottom of the ninth inning off Brooks Crawford and Alex Bostic, but Pat Krall came on with two outs to get his fourth save of the season after the Irish loaded the bases and had the tying run at the plate.