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Wake Baseball Completes Weekend Sweep Of NC State
4/22/2001 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
April 22, 2001
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -
The 23rd-ranked Wake Forest baseball team completed a weekend sweep of NC State on Sunday afternoon at Hooks Stadium with a 12-2 win over the Wolfpack. The Demon Deacons plated nine runs in the sixth inning, highlighted by Carlos Brackley's grand slam, one of his two home runs of the afternoon.
Freshman Kyle Sleeth got his team-leading eighth win with five innings of relief. He allowed one unearned run on six hits with two strikeouts. Senior Scott Siemon started the game and went three innings on a pitch count. He allowed one run on two hits.
Wake Forest (31-12, 14-7 ACC) never trailed the in the game and got on the board immediely with Cory Sullivan's homer in the first inning. It was his fourth leadoff home run of the season.
NC State tied the game in the second with a run but Brackley ripped his first home run of the day in the fifth inning, a solo shot to left-center field. In the sixth, the Demon Deacons poured it on with nine runs, all of which came with two outs. The first four runs came in on Brackley's grand slam, his second homer of the day and 10th of the season.
Three batters later, Nick Blue hit a three-run inside-the-park home run, the first round-tripper of his career. Jamie Athas, Cory Sullivan and Blue scored when NC State left fielder Matt Butler and center fielder Brian Wright collided in left-center and the ball rolled all the way to the wall. Butler was injured on the play and left the game after a five-minute delay. The extent of his injured was unknown. Two more runs scored in the inning on RBI singles by Matt Price and Josh Hansen.
The three wins over NC State this weekend marked Wake Forest's first ever three-game regular season sweep of the Wolfpack. Wake Forest's record moves to 31-12 overall and 14-7 in the ACC. NC State falls to 23-21 and 7-11 on the year.
Wake Forest hosts Liberty on Monday afternoon at Hooks Stadium. First pitch is at 3:00 p.m.
