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Deacons Fall to Cavaliers, 13-2
4/26/2003 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
April 26, 2003
Winston-Salem, N.C. -- The Wake Forest baseball team lost 13-2 to Virginia on Saturday afternoon at Hooks Stadium to fall to 26-17 overall, 8-11 in the ACC.
Virginia's Mark Reynolds launched a three-run homer in the top of the first inning, his first of two home runs on the day. The Cavaliers led the rest of the game.
Wake Forest scored two runs in the bottom of the first to make it 3-2. Consecutive singles by Ryan Johnson and Jamie D'Antona scored Adam Bourassa and Ryan Hubbard. The Deacons had runners on first and second with one out but Cavalier starter Chris Gale got Ben Ingold to bounce into a double play to end the inning.
Gale retired 11 straight Deacons after the double play and didn't allow another hit until the fifth inning, a two-out single by Bourassa.
Meanwhile, Virginia continued to put runs on the scoreboard. In the third inning, four singles and a walk led to the departure of Deacon starter Seth Hill, who was pinned with the loss. Freshman reliever Kirby Wedekind got out of the jam but not before the Cavaliers had already plated three runs.
In the sixth inning, a bases-loaded two out single by Virginia third baseman Ryan Zimmerman made it 8-2. Virginia added singles runs in the seventh and eighth innings. Reynolds drilled his second three-run homer of the day in the top of the ninth, putting the exclamation point on Virginia's 13-2 victory.
The 11-run margin of defeat was the most at Hooks Stadium for the Deacons since a 13-2 loss to Georgia Tech in 1996.
Reynolds was 3-for-6 with two home runs and six RBI. Matt Street, Chris Sweet and Paul Gillispie each had three hits for Virginia. Adam Bourassa had a pair of singles for the Deacons.
The Deacons managed just one extra-base hit in the game, a Jeff Ruziecki triple in the sixth inning. Wake Forest has scored just 11 runs in its last five ACC games.
Wake Forest and Virginia will finish their weekend series with game three, the rubber match, on Sunday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. The Deacons will send sophomore Tim Morley to the mound. Joe Koshansky gets the start for Virginia.
