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#21 Wake Forest Splits Doubleheader With Charlotte
4/25/2001 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
April 25, 2001
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Charlotte split their doubleheader with #21 Wake Forest. Charlotte, behind pitching from John Maine and Matt Johnson blanked Wake Forest 1-0 in the first game. Then, Wake Forest behind 11 hits defeated Charlotte 11-7 in game two.
In game one, Charlotte scored the game's only run in the fifth inning when Nick Blackmon connected on a single to leftfield that scored Eric Shanks. Shanks reached base on a walk with one out.
John Maine and Matt Johnson combined to shutout Wake Forest. This is Charlotte's first shutout since the 49ers blanked Saint Louis last season. This also marked the first time that Wake Forest has been shutout since Charlotte shutout them out 7-0, March 24, 1998. This breaks a string of 208 games in which Wake Forest has scored a run.
Maine won his Conference USA leading ninth game of the season after only allowing two hits over five innings. Johnson recorded his first career save by pitching two scoreless innings of relief.
In game two, Wake Forest jumped out to an early 5-0 lead on six hits in the first inning. Cory Sullivan scored the game's first run on a Corey Slavik single to rightfield. Slavik scored the second run on a Ryan Johnson single to leftfield. The other three runs came on Stephen Ghutzman home run over the rightfield wall.
Wake Forest increased their lead to 11-0 with six runs on two hits in the second inning. Matt Price, Cory Slavik, Jamie D'Antona, Carlos Brackley, Josh Hansen and Stephen Ghutzman scored in the inning.
Charlotte cut the Wake Forest lead to 11-5 with five runs on four hits and two Wake Forest errors in the fifth inning. Nick Blackmon and Brian Bowman scored on Brad Lamm's single to centerfield. George Sandel scored on a Wake Forest fielding error. Then, Lamm and Victor Puentes scored Charlotte's final two runs of the inning on an Eric Shanks single to centerfield.
Then, Charlotte made the final score 11-7 in the sixth inning with two runs on two hits and two Wake Forest errors. Blackmon scored the first run of inning on Brian Bowman's dropped sacrifice fly to centerfield. Then, Bowman scored the other run of the inning on Lamm's sacrifice bunt.
Wake Forest pitcher Josh Bartlett won his first game of the season after pitching the first five innings of the game. Then, Wake Forest closer Dave Bush pitched one and two-thirds innings to record his 12th save of the season in game two.
