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Wake Forest Baseball Does Wright State Wrong, 19-2
3/5/2006 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
March 5, 2006
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Wake Forest pounded out a season-high 23 hits, including seven doubles and three home runs, in a 19-2 thrashing of Wright State Sunday afternoon at Hooks Stadium. The Demon Deacons swept the three-game weekend series from the Raiders and improve to 10-3 on the season, while Wright State drops to 2-6.
Junior All-American Matt Antonelli and redshirt junior Brendan Enick led the Wake Forest barrage with four hits a piece. Antonelli went 4-for-5 with two home runs, four runs scored and a career-high tying five RBI. Antonelli has already smacked five home runs this season -- his entire total from 2005.
Enick continued his incredible week. The designated hitter went 4-for-4 with a single-game school record tying three doubles. Enick became the 14th player in Wake Forest baseball history to register three doubles in one game. He also added two runs scored and four RBI. Antonelli had three doubles back on May 24 of last season against Duke. Enick finished the week with a .786 (11-for-14) batting average, two home runs and 12 RBI.
Wake Forest put the game out of reach with six runs in the first, three in the second and five more in the third.
The sophomore tandem of Andy Goff and Austin Jones each had three hits. Goff went 3-for-6 with two RBI and three runs scored, while Jones went 3-for-4 with a run scored, two doubles and four RBI. Freshmen Dustin Hood and Allan Dykstra each had multi-hit games. Hood went 2-for-3 with three runs scored and Dykstra went 2-for-4 with two runs scored, three RBI and his fourth home run of the season -- third this week.
The 23 hits are the most for a Demon Deacon squad since the ACC Tournament victory over Maryland last season when Wake Forest knocked out 23 in a 20-13 rout of the Terrapins. All 11 players that saw action, including defensive replacements freshman Tyler Smith and senior Grant Achilles, had at least one hit. The seven doubles are the most in a single game since Wake Forest had 10 against Wofford on Mar. 12, 2003.
Demon Deacon starting pitcher Charlie Mellies (3-0) picked up his third consecutive victory. The junior allowed two earned runs on seven hits over 5.2 innings. Mellies fanned a career-high eight and issued just a single walk. He pushed his scoreless innings streak to 13.1 before allowing a couple of meaningless runs in the sixth inning.
Wright State starter Garrett Holleran (0-2) was rocked for six runs, all earned, on six hits in just 0.1 inning. The Raiders used eight different pitchers on the day -- only two of which held Wake Forest scoreless.
The Demon Deacons return to action Tuesday at Coastal Carolina. First pitch with the Chanticleers is set for 4 p.m. Senior Kip Byrum is scheduled to take the hill for Wake Forest.
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