Wake Forest University
Appalachian State
Fast Start Helps Deacs Past App State, 7-3
3/20/2018 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
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Wake Forest Athletic Communications (@WakeBaseball)
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Wake Forest got off to a strong start for the third-straight game en route to a 7-3 win over Appalachian State at David F. Couch Ballpark on Tuesday evening.
The Demon Deacons (10-11) scored three first-inning runs and have now scored 11 first-inning runs over the last three games. Wake Forest added two more in the second and never trailed. Because the game was moved from Boone due to weather, the Deacs served as the visiting team.
Johnny Aiello went 2-for-4 with his fifth homer and two RBIs, Bobby Seymour hit a two-run double and DJ Poteet was 2-for-4 with an RBI.
Jake Mueller became the second known Deacon to draw five walks in a game, tying Brett Linnenkohl's 2007 record. Mueller came around to score three times.
In a staff day on the mound, Wake Forest's seven pitchers combined to allow three runs (one earned) with 14 strikeouts. Cole McNamee (1-0) started and earned the win with 2.0 scoreless frames, striking out four.
Wake Forest's last four pitchers - Antonio Menendez, Jared Shuster, Shane Muntz and Bobby Hearn, combined to hold the Mountaineers (5-13) hitless over the final 4.0 innings with six strikeouts.
The Deacs started the game with an Aiello single on which Mueller came around to score on an error, and Seymour followed with a double off the wall to make it 3-0.
Aiello came to bat again in the second and hit a two-run homer through the wind to push the lead to 5-0.
App State got on the board with an RBI groundout in the third inning, but the Deacs got the run back with a passed ball in the fifth.
The Mountaineers' final two runs came on a single which got past the outfielder, allowing one runner to score on that play and another to score on a groundout.
Poteet hit an RBI single in the eighth to close out the scoring.
Wake Forest hits the road this weekend for a three-game series at Notre Dame. First pitches are set for 6 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday and 11:30 a.m. Sunday.
