Wake Forest Athletics
Post Game Notes
5/23/2002 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
May 23, 2002
Wake Forest vs. North Carolina
ACC Tournament - Second Round
With the win, Wake Forest ...
- Improves to 44-9-1 overall.
- Has defeated North Carolina in four straight ACC Tournament meetings, in 11 of the last 12 overall games and in 15 of the last 18 contests.
- Ties the 2001 team for the second-most wins in school history (44).
- George Greer gets his 559th win at Wake Forest, his 25th ACC Tournament victory, sixth-most in conference history.
- Has won six of its last seven ACC Tournament games.
- Begins ACC Tournament play 2-0 for the second straight year and for the third time in four years.
- Is now 17-4 in ACC Tournament play over the last five years combined.
- Makes Wake three wins shy of tying the school single-season record for wins.
- Improves to 11-0 all-time as the ACC Tournament's No. 2 seed.
- Improves to 20-3-1 in its last 23 games.
Wake Forest played just its second extra-inning game of the season (Wake beat New Orleans 4-3 in 11 innings on March 11). The Deacons played their first extra-inning game in the ACC Tournament since an 8-7, 13-inning win over North Carolina in 2000.
Ryan Johnson hitting streak extended his hitting streak to 11 games with a single in the fourth inning. Johnson reached base seven times tonight. In two ACC Tournament games, Johnson is 7-of-9.
Adam Bourassa extended his season-best hitting streak to 12 games with a leadoff single in the first inning.
With one RBI tonight, Jamie D'Antona has ten RBI in six career ACC Tournament games. D'Antona has 73 RBI for the season, in a tie for fifth-place on Wake Forest's single season chart.
Dave Bush made his NCAA leading 38th appearance of the season, the 140th of his career. Bush needs just one more appearance to tie for the all-time lead in ACC history with North Carolina's Thad Chrismon. It was Bush's ninth career appearance in the ACC Tournament.
Bush had his longest outing of the season, pitching more than three innings for the first time since going 3.1 innings against Tennessee in last year's NCAA Tournament. Bush's five innings pitched tied a career high. He pitched 5.0 innings against Clemson on April 15, 2000.
The run allowed by Bush in the seventh was the first he had allowed against an ACC team since March 24 at NC State, just the second he had allowed all season against a conference opponent.
Adam Bourassa made his 54th consecutive start in center field for the Deacons, Ryan Johnson made his 19th consecutive start and Jeff Ruziecki made his 18th consecutive start at first base.
Ryder Mathias, a redshirt freshman, singled and drove in two in the first official ACC Tournament at-bat of his career.
The 16 runners left on base by the Deacons were the most since 18 at New Orleans on March 11.
Wake is 8-9 this season when trailing after seven innings.
The Deacons will play Florida State Friday night at 7:30 p.m. Wake went 2-1 versus Florida State this season (all games played in Winston-Salem). The Seminoles handed Wake its only loss in last year's ACC Tournament.
