Wake Forest Athletics
Wake Forest University
Miami Fla
Wake Baseball Falls To Miami In Season-Opener
1/28/2000 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Jan. 28, 2000
ORLANDO, Fla. -- David Gil pitched five shutout innings to lead the sixth-ranked Miami Hurricanes (2-0) to a 6-3 win over the 21st-ranked Wake Forest Demon Deacons on the first day of the ACC Disney Baseball Blast at Disney's Wide World of Sports on Friday.
Sophomore Javier Rodriguez got things started for the Hurricanes with an RBI single in the third inning to break a scoreless tie. Kris Clute scored on the play, after reaching base on a double to left field.
Wake Forest replaced starting pitcher Scott Siemon (0-1) to start the fifth inning with Matt Briggs. Briggs was able to keep the score at 1-0 until the Hurricanes erupted with two outs for five runs in the top of the eighth to increase their lead to 6-0.
The Deacons came back with three runs in the bottom of the ninth. The first run came on a triple by Chase Voshell that scored Corey Slavik. Carlos Brackley then singled to bring in Voshell, and the Deacs' final run was scored when Matt Price grounded out to first base to score Dan Conway to make the final score 6-3.
Wake Forest will play Saturday at 11 a.m. against Central Florida. Miami will play Clemson at 7 p.m.
Score by innings R H E ---------------------------------------------------- Miami Hurricanes 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 5 0 - 6 7 2 Wake Forest 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 - 3 8 3 ----------------------------------------------------
