Wake Forest Athletics
Wake Forest University
LeMoyne
Wake Forest Falls to Le Moyne, 6-5
3/9/2003 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
March 9, 2003
Winston-Salem, N.C. -- The 11th-ranked Wake Forest baseball team let a 4-3 lead slip through its collective fingers as Le Moyne College rallied for a 6-5 victory on Sunday at Hooks Stadium. The loss snapped a four-game winning streak for the Demon Deacons.
Le Moyne (1-6) scored the go-ahead run unearned in the top of the ninth on a sacrifice fly by Anthony Aquilino that scored Michael Affronti. The run was set up by a two-base throwing error that put runners on second and third with one out. It was one of four Deacon errors on the day.
Wake Forest (9-4) put its leadoff hitter on base each of the first seven innings but stranded 12 runners by game's end, including five at third base.
In the first inning, the Deacons had a runner thrown out at the plate attempting to score on a passed ball. In the second, Wake Forest failed to push a runner across despite having runners on second and third with nobody out. The bases were left loaded in the third and in the fifth, the Deacons wasted a leadoff double. In the sixth, the Deacons had runners on second and third with one out and in the seventh, had runners on second and third with nobody out. But Wake Forest failed to score on either of those occasions.
Daniel Davidson (0-1) took the loss for the Deacons. He went 1 2/3 innings and allowed one unearned run on just one hit. Seth Hill made the start and lasted 6 2/3 innings yielding five runs, four earned, on nine hits with four strikeouts and a walk. Adam Hanson got the final two outs of the ninth, including the go-ahead sacrifice fly.
Chris Getz went 2-for-4 with a pair of doubles for Wake Forest. D'Antona and Malinowski had a pair of hits as did Ryan Johnson who had the leave the game after re-aggravating an ankle injury originally suffered last Friday in Minnesota.
The loss was only Wake Forest's sixth at home against non-conference opponents since 1999.
Le Moyne freshman reliever Michael Falasca, pitching in his third collegiate game, left the game in the sixth inning after taking a line drive to the face off the bat of Malinowski. He was treated on the field by the Wake Forest medical staff including a doctor who was present in the Deacon dugout. Falasca was taken by ambulance to Wake Forest Baptist Hospital and the game resumed after a 44-minute delay.
The Deacons look to get back on track in Lynchburg, Va., on Tuesday where the Deacons will take on the Liberty Flames at 2:30 p.m.
