Saturday, March 23
Winston-Salem, NC
1 p.m.
Wake Forest University
3
vs
7
Louisville
Wake Forest Falls in Series Finale with Louisville
3/23/2024 5:40:00 PM | Baseball
Wake Forest picked up their first ACC series win of the season, taking the three-game set two games to one over the Cardinal.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – The No. 16 Wake Forest baseball team were unable to complete the sweep of Louisville, falling 7-3 in the finale on Saturday at David F. Couch Ballpark.
The Demon Deacons (16-7, 4-5 ACC) jumped out to a 2-0 lead on Jake Reinisch's fifth double of the season, as the junior sent a ball off the top of the wall in left center to give Wake Forest the early advantage.
For Reinisch, it marked the eighth time this season that he's added at least two RBIs and his fifth multi-hit effort of his senior campaign.
Third baseman Adam Tellier continued his nine-game hitting streak and 23-game on-base streak with a single in the bottom of the fifth.
Returning from injury to pitch for the first time in two weeks, starter Michael Massey pitched two hitless innings with a pair of strikeouts to keep the Cardinal off the board early in the contest.
Graduate transfer David Falco tossed the next two innings for the Deacs, allowing just two hits with a strikeout to preserve the lead.
HOW IT HAPPENED
FROM COACH WALTER
"I felt like we needed one more inning out of Massey, maybe one more out of Leffew. It felt like if we could have gotten five innings out of those two guys we would have had enough. When we didn't, it left us a little short in the bullpen. We knew that was going to be a problem.
The good news is that we got to see Massey back out there and get two shutout innings. Cole Roland threw a bullpen today and looked really good. Both Kurtz and Houston said they could have played today but neither of them were cleared. Hopefully, we have both of those guys on Tuesday against Liberty. We should have some pieces coming back soon. We couldn't get off the field in the seventh and ninth innings which ended up being the difference in the game." - head coach Tom Walter
UP NEXT
Wake Forest heads back on the road for a midweek contest at Liberty on Tuesday, Mar. 26 at 4 p.m. on ESPN+.
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The Demon Deacons (16-7, 4-5 ACC) jumped out to a 2-0 lead on Jake Reinisch's fifth double of the season, as the junior sent a ball off the top of the wall in left center to give Wake Forest the early advantage.
For Reinisch, it marked the eighth time this season that he's added at least two RBIs and his fifth multi-hit effort of his senior campaign.
Third baseman Adam Tellier continued his nine-game hitting streak and 23-game on-base streak with a single in the bottom of the fifth.
Returning from injury to pitch for the first time in two weeks, starter Michael Massey pitched two hitless innings with a pair of strikeouts to keep the Cardinal off the board early in the contest.
Graduate transfer David Falco tossed the next two innings for the Deacs, allowing just two hits with a strikeout to preserve the lead.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Starter Michael Massey got the game rolling with a punchout and groundout. After a two-out walk, the Cardinal tested the arm of catcher Cameron Gill, who gunned down the runner with a strong throw for his seventh runner caught stealing this season.
- Wake Forest drew first blood with a two-run bottom of the first.
- Third baseman Adam Tellier drew a walk with one away.
- Junior Seaver King singled through the left side to move Tellier into scoring position.
- After a productive flyout from sophomore Jack Winnay to move Tellier and King up 90 feet, right fielder Jake Reinisch came through with a double off the left-center wall to put the Deacs up a pair.
- Massey retired the Cardinal in order in the top of the second for a shutdown frame.
- Reliever David Falco entered in the third and threw up the Deacs third-straight zero to start the contest.
- A 4-6-3 double play and a groundout to second baseman Austin Hawke kept Louisville scoreless through four innings.
- Louisville got a run back in the top of the fifth to make it 2-1.
- A solo home run from the Cardinal tied the game in the sixth.
- Freshman Cam Nelson gave the Deacs the lead back in the bottom of the sixth with an RBI single back up the middle that plated Jack Winnay to make it 3-2.
- Louisville responded with three runs in the seventh to grab a 5-3 advantage.
- The Cardinal added two runs in the ninth to take the finale 7-3.
FROM COACH WALTER
"I felt like we needed one more inning out of Massey, maybe one more out of Leffew. It felt like if we could have gotten five innings out of those two guys we would have had enough. When we didn't, it left us a little short in the bullpen. We knew that was going to be a problem.
The good news is that we got to see Massey back out there and get two shutout innings. Cole Roland threw a bullpen today and looked really good. Both Kurtz and Houston said they could have played today but neither of them were cleared. Hopefully, we have both of those guys on Tuesday against Liberty. We should have some pieces coming back soon. We couldn't get off the field in the seventh and ninth innings which ended up being the difference in the game." - head coach Tom Walter
UP NEXT
Wake Forest heads back on the road for a midweek contest at Liberty on Tuesday, Mar. 26 at 4 p.m. on ESPN+.
Follow The Deacs:
GoDeacs.com | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
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