Wake Forest Baseball Weekly Update - April 26 - Wake Forest University Athletics

Matt Conway hit .417 last week a home run and a team-high seven RBIs.

Wake Forest Baseball Weekly Update - April 26

4/26/2010 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

April 26, 2010

Wake Forest Baseball Weekly Update
Week Ending April 25, 2010

Overall Record: 12-31, 4-17 ACC
Last Week's Record: 2-3, 2-1 ACC

Recent Results:
April 20 - Charlotte 6, Wake Forest 4
April 21 - UNC Greensboro 13, Wake Forest 7
April 23 - Duke 10, Wake Forest 3
April 24 - Wake Forest 18, Duke 3
April 25 - Wake Forest 7, Duke 1

Upcoming Games (All Times Eastern and Subject to Change):
April 28, 4 p.m. - Wake Forest at Appalachian State - Boone, N.C.

Star Watch:

Name	Avg.	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	TB	SLG%	BB	HBP	OBP	SB-ATT
Matt Conway	.343	99	15	34	2	16	50	.505	17	3	.454	2-2
Steven Brooks	.331	166	44	55	5	27	86	.518	23	5	.426	22-26
Mike Murray	.327	156	24	51	3	36	70	.449	20	2	.401	3-5
Ryan Semeniuk	.303	175	38	53	8	23	90	.514	25	2	.396	13-18

Name	W-L	ERA	App	GS	CG	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	BAvg.
Joel Ernst	1-1	4.21	22	0	0	2	25.2	26	14	12	11	22	.271
Niko Spezial	1-4	4.24	9	1	0	0	17.0	15	16	8	15	10	.242
Tim Cooney	3-4	4.55	10	10	0	0	63.1	65	44	32	20	40	.259
Justin Van Grouw	1-3	4.91	13	7	0	0	33.0	37	26	18	12	27	.282

Weekly Recap:
The Wake Forest baseball team finished last week with a 2-3 record. After losing a pair of midweek games, the Demon Deacons bounced back by winning two of three games from Duke over the weekend. The Deacs opened the week with a 6-4 loss at Charlotte and a 13-7 home defeat against UNC Greensboro. After losing the first game of the series against the Blue Devils, 10-3, Wake Forest won the final two games of the series, winning 18-3 on Saturday and 7-1 on Sunday.

The Demon Deacons are now 12-31 on the season and 4-17 in Atlantic Coast Conference play.

Freshman Matt Conway led Wake Forest at the plate over the past week, hitting .476 (10-for-21) with an RBI, three doubles and four runs scored. Redshirt junior Ryan Semeniuk posted a .381 batting average (8-for-21) with two homers, six RBIs and eight runs scored. Freshman Mark Rhine hit .368 (7-for-19) on the week, while fellow freshman Pat Blair hit .333 (7-for-21). Senior Mike Murray drove in a team-high seven RBIs and had a .300 batting average (6-for-20) and freshman Mike Lubanski hit his first collegiate home run and went 2-for-5 on the week.

Conway leads Wake Forest with a .343 batting average on the season and has hit two homers and driven in 16 runs. Junior Steven Brooks is hitting .331 on the year to go along with five home runs and 27 RBIs. Brooks has also stolen a team-high 22 bases on the season and moved into the top 10 in career stolen bases at Wake Forest with his 48th steal earlier in the week. Murray is hitting .327 on the year with three homers and a team-high 36 RBIs, while Semeniuk is swinging the bat at a .303 clip with a team-leading eight homers and 23 RBIs.

On the mound, Michael Dimock and Austin Stadler each turned in solid starts in the weekend series against Duke. Dimock struck out a career-high 11 batters and gave up just one run over 8.0 innings to earn the win in Sunday's series finale. Stadler also picked up a win on the mound, giving up two runs, only one earned run, on nine hits with four strikeouts in 6.2 innings. Dimock, who also pitched Tuesday at Charlotte, finished the week with a 3.60 ERA, allowing six runs on 14 hits with 16 strikeouts in 15.0 innings of work.

Out of the bullpen, sophomore Zach White appeared in two games over the past week and did not allow an earned run. White pitched 3.2 innings and gave up one unearned run on three hits with two strikeouts. Juniors Mark Adzick and Brandon Johnson and freshman Justin Van Grouw did not allow a run on the week out of the bullpen, while redshirt senior Joel Ernst pitched in three games and gave up a run in 3.0 innings with five strikeouts.

Ernst has the lowest ERA on the season for Wake Forest, compiling a 1-1 record with two saves and a 4.21 ERA in 22 appearances, all in relief. Freshman Niko Spezial is 1-4 on the year with a 4.24 ERA in nine outings, while freshman Tim Cooney has a 3-4 record and a 4.55 ERA in 10 starts on the season. Van Grouw has posted a 1-3 record with a 4.91 ERA in 13 appearances, including seven starts.

Wake Forest is back in action on Wednesday with a 4 p.m. first pitch at Appalachian State. After Wednesday's game, the Deacs will have eight days off for finals and will return to the field on Friday, May 7, for the first game of a three-game series at North Carolina.

For all of the latest information on Wake Forest baseball, please log on to www.WakeForestSports.com or, for up-to-the minute updates, follow the team's Twitter account @WFUBaseball or www.twitter.com/WFUBaseball.

2010 Tom Walter Baseball Camps Registration Now Available:
Registration for the 2010 Tom Walter Baseball Camps is now being accepted. Several exciting camps are planned for kids of all ages this summer. For more information or to signup for any of this summer's camps, contact assistant coach Grant Achilles at (336) 758-7418 or achillgd@wfu.edu or visit the camp's website at www.collegebaseballcamps.com/wake.