Wake Forest Evens Series with 12-3 Win |
WINSTON-SALEM, NC -- The 20th-ranked Wake Forest baseball team hammered 10th-ranked Clemson 12-3 on Saturday afternoon at Hooks Stadium to even the series at one game a piece. Senior All-American Cory Sullivan was the star of the game throwing a complete game win and going three-for-five at the plate with three RBI.
"Cory Sullivan showed why he's an All-American today," head coach George Greer said. "He starts rallies, continues rallies, gets clutch hits, pitches in big games and does all of that very well. He's a great player who had a great day."
The game was never really in doubt as Wake Forest hung a seven-spot on Clemson in the first inning. The Deacons sent 13 batters to the plate and saw three Tiger pitchers in the frame. The inning began when Sullivan's infield pop-up was misjudged and fell between the third baseman and shortstop for a hit.
Sullivan stole second before Corey Slavik's double to the right field line gave the Deacons an early lead. Things began to snowball for Clemson as Wake Forest pounded out four hits to go with four walks, a passed ball and a hit by pitch. Sullivan helped his cause with a two-out, two-run single to center field. When the dust cleared, the Demon Deacons had built a 7-0 lead.
That was all Sullivan would need. He scattered nine hits over nine innings and allowed just one earned run. It was Sullivan's second career start and his first career complete game. As a starting pitcher, Sullivan has an ERA of 1.12 over 16 innings of work.
Jamie D'Antona and Carlos Brackley gave the Deacons insurance runs with their sixth and fifth home runs, respectively. Brackley finished the day with three hits and is on fire as of late. He has raised batting average to .344 on the year.
Wake Forest improves to 18-6 on the year with a 6-2 mark in the ACC. Clemson slips to 16-7 and 4-1 in league play.
The rubber match of the weekend series is slated for Sunday at 1:30 p.m and will be broadcast on the Clemson
Tiger Network with Jim Phillips and Bob Mahony. Kyle Sleeth (4-2) gets the call for the Deacs.
Clemson 3 (16-7,4-1)
Player AB R H RBI BB SO PO A LOB
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STONE lf................. 5 1 1 1 0 1 2 0 2
GREENE ss................ 4 1 1 0 0 1 2 1 2
BAKER 3b................. 4 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0
TRIPLETT dh.............. 5 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1
SCHMIDT 1b............... 5 0 1 0 0 0 9 0 5
RILEY 2b................. 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0
CODER cf................. 4 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0
GREEN rf................. 4 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 1
PYZIK c.................. 2 0 1 0 1 0 3 1 0
KLOSTERMAN ph........... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
CHILDS p................. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
URRICO p................ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
LYNN p.................. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
HARRELSON p............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
LAMURA p................ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals................... 38 3 9 2 2 5 24 9 11
Wake Forest 12 (18-6,6-2)
Player AB R H RBI BB SO PO A LOB
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Cory Sullivan p.......... 5 1 3 3 1 0 3 1 2
Nick Blue 2b............. 3 0 1 0 2 0 4 2 0
Corey Slavik 3b.......... 5 1 1 3 0 0 2 2 3
Jamie D'Antona 1b........ 4 2 1 1 1 2 8 1 4
Ryan Johnson rf.......... 5 1 1 1 0 0 3 0 0
Carlos Brackley lf....... 5 2 3 1 0 2 0 0 0
Matt Price cf............ 3 1 1 1 2 0 1 0 0
Jamie Athas ss........... 4 2 2 2 1 0 1 5 1
Jason Aquilante c........ 2 2 0 0 2 0 5 0 2
Totals................... 36 12 13 12 9 4 27 11 12
Score by Innings R H E
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Clemson............. 000 001 002 - 3 9 1
Wake Forest......... 701 002 02X - 12 13 2
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E - RILEY(7), Corey Slavik 2(10). DP - Clemson 1. LOB - Clemson 11, Wake
Forest 12. 2B - GREENE(3), TRIPLETT(4), Corey Slavik(6), Ryan Johnson(2),
Carlos Brack(7), Jamie Athas 2(7). HR - Jamie D'Anto(6), Carlos Brack(5).
HBP - GREENE, Corey Slavik, Jason Aquila. SH - Nick Blue(6). SB - Cory
Sulliva(10), Carlos Brack(1), Jamie Athas(5).
Clemson IP H R ER BB SO AB BF
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CHILDS.............. 0.2 3 7 4 3 1 6 9
URRICO.............. 0.0 1 0 0 1 0 1 3
LYNN................ 4.2 7 3 3 2 2 19 23
HARRELSON........... 1.2 0 0 0 0 0 5 5
LAMURA.............. 1.0 2 2 2 3 1 5 8
Wake Forest IP H R ER BB SO AB BF
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Cory Sullivan....... 9.0 9 3 1 2 5 38 41
Win - Cory Sulliva (2-0). Loss - CHILDS (1-2). Save - None.
WP - LAMURA(3), Cory Sulliva(3). HB - URRICO, LYNN, Cory Sulliva. PB - PYZIK(4).
Umpires - Home:Scott Graham 1st:John Floyd 3rd:Ron Sebastian
Start: 1:31 pm Time: 2:47 Attendance: 1471
Game: WF032401
URRICO faced 3 batters in the 1st.
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