Postgame Notes - Wake Forest vs. Virginia
5/25/2008 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
May 25, 2008
- Wake Forest, which finishes the 2008 ACC Championship with a 1-2 overall record, has now won at least one game in three of the last four tournaments.
- Wake Forest starter Brad Kledzik made his second start and fourth overall appearance in tournament play, and recorded his longest career outing with 7.2 innings on the mound. Kledzik, who tossed 7.1 innings in a 3-2 Wake Forest win over Clemson in last year's tournament, has allowed 18 hits and six earned runs in 17.1 career innings of ACC Championship play.
- Allan Dykstra finished 3-for-5 against the Cavaliers, with a pair of doubles and a three-run home run. Dykstra, who leads the Demon Deacons and ranks third in the ACC with 16 home runs this season, is now tied for the tournament lead with 12 total bases this week.
- Dykstra now ranks third on Wake Forest's career home run list with 49. Wake Forest was 8-6 this season when Dykstra went deep.
- Virginia finished with three stolen bases against the Demon Deacons, extending its single-season school record to 132. The Cavaliers have stolen at least one base in 46 of 56 games this season.
- Wake Forest completed the game with 11 hits against the Cavaliers. The Demon Deacons last registered double-digit hits in an ACC Championship contest on May 27, 2005, when they hit safely 10 times in a 7-3 loss to Florida State. The last time Wake Forest bested 11 hits in a tournament game was on May 23, 2005, when they picked up 23 hits in a 33-run slugfest against Maryland.
- Wake Forest, which improves to 25-31 on the year with the victory, is now 6-6 in 12 all-time ACC Championship match-ups against Virginia.
- Virginia and Wake Forest last faced off in tournament competition on May 23, 2003, on day three of the 2003 ACC Championship. In that game, which pitted the sixth-seeded Cavaliers against the seventh-seeded Demon Deacons, Wake Forest prevailed 12-11.
