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Deacs Beat Towson, Remain Unbeaten at Home
3/4/2016 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Wake Forest Athletic Communications (@WakeBaseball)
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- The Wake Forest baseball team used a strong start by Parker Dunshee and a six-run fourth inning to defeat the Towson Tigers, 8-4, on Friday Night at David Couch Ballpark.
For the Deacons (8-2), it was their third consecutive win to begin the five-game homestand.
The 8-2 start to the season for Wake Forest is the best since opening the 2002 season 9-1, en route to a 47-13-1 record and hosting an NCAA Regional.
With the game tied at one entering the bottom of the fourth, Wake Forest sent 10 men to the plate in a six-run inning, which included a Keegan Maronpot RBI triple, two-run double from Joey Rodriguez and RBI single from Nate Mondou.
The fourth inning outburst was more than enough as Dunshee delivered seven strong innings on his way to his second win of the season. Overall, Dunshee gave up just two runs to go along with a career-high 12 strikeouts.
At the plate, Will Craig continued his scorching homestand, reaching base all four times he came to the plate. Craig finished two runs scored, two walks, and two doubles. For the season, Craig leads the team in home runs (three), RBIs (14), doubles (six), and is tied for the lead in runs scored (nine) and saves (two).
Craig was assisted at the plate by Gavin Sheets, who drove home the first two Wake Forest runs, scoring Craig twice, on a sacrifice fly and an RBI groundout.
For the second straight game, the Deacs fell behind early, as Towson (0-7) got on the board first following a leadoff double, a sacrifice bunt, and a wild pitch, but the Deacs tied it in the second and broke the game open in the fourth.
After the Tigers got a run back in the sixth, Wake Forest plated an insurance run in the bottom of the inning on a run-scoring single from Kevin Conway to make the lead 8-2.
The Tigers rallied in the eighth, as second basemen Colin Dyer led off the inning with a home run. Towson added another run in the eighth on an RBI double and put two runners in scoring position before Craig entered the game and immediately induced a groundout to escape the jam.
Craig tossed a scoreless ninth to record his second save of the season and seal the victory.
Up next, the Demon Deacons will battle for a season-high four game winning streak as they take on Harvard on Saturday at 2 p.m. at David F. Couch Ballpark.
