Wake Forest Baseball Postgame Notes

May 26, 2001

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Wake Forest improves its record to 42-17 overall.
The Deacons have won nine of their last 11 games.
In its fourth consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance, Wake Forest is 8-8 in NCAA Tournament games since 1998. The Deacs are
Freshman Jamie D'Antona gave Wake Forest a 2-0 lead with his 14th home run of the season. The homer was D'Antona's second of the NCAA Tournament. He also homered last night in his final at-bat, giving him home run blasts in consecutive at bats.
Shortstop Jamie Athas eclipsed the 20 stolen base mark for the season with his 20th pilfer in the second inning, then added his 21st pilfer in the third inning.
Cory Sullivan made his third postseason pitching start of the season after starting two games in the ACC Tournament. Sullivan, who entered the game with a perfect 6-0 record, enjoyed another solid outing today. Sullivan lost the shutout in the fourth inning even though the Blue Raiders failed to get a hit. MTSU did not record a base hit off of Sullivan until Marshall Nisbett's solo home run with two outs in the bottom of the sixth.
Sullivan recorded his 49th career stolen base, which puts him one pilfer away from becoming just the fourth player in Wake Forest history to steal 50 bases.
Sullivan also moved closer to reaching the 100 base hit mark for the season by recording his 97th hit in the fifth inning. Only two players in Wake Forest history have recorded 100 or more base hits in a season and Sullivan is one of them (he had 102 hits last season). The other Deacon to reach 100 hits is former Deacon Jon Palmieri, who had 112 hits in both 1998 and 1999.
Dave Bush made his 40th relief appearance of the season and his seventh appearance over Wake's last eight games.

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