Saturday, March 30
Winston-Salem, NC
7 p.m.
Wake Forest University
6
vs
10
North Carolina
Deacs Tie Regular Season Attendance Record in Loss
3/30/2024 11:26:00 PM | Baseball
Despite eight of the nine batters in the order reaching base, the No. 12 Wake Forest baseball team dropped a 10-6 contest to No. 14 North Carolina Saturday night at David F. Couch Ballpark.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Deacon Nation is well on pace to set an all-time weekend attendance record after two capacity crowds have opened the weekend series against No. 14 North Carolina as Saturday night saw another 3,514 regular season record tying crowd at David F. Couch Ballpark with the Tar Heels prevailing over the No. 12 Wake Forest baseball team, 10-6.
Through the first month and a half of the season, the Demon Deacons have seen five of the top 10 crowds in regular season history including the three largest in program history.
After falling behind early, the Deac continued to battle, plating three runs in the fourth and fifth combined. Wake Forest took its first lead of the game at 3-2 in the fifth when junior Seaver King doubled down the left field line to plate Marek Houston and Cam Nelson.
King, a consensus preseason All-American, finished the game with a pair of hits and two RBI. He is now hitting .304 on the season with 27 RBI. In the last seven games, King has racked up 11 RBI and has gone 10-of-31 (.323) at the plate.
Junior Nick Kurtz tallied a pair of hits and two RBI Saturday night with a double down the left field line plating Houston and Nelson in the ninth.
With seven strikeouts in 4.2 innings pitched, junior lefthander Josh Hartle now has 220 strikeouts in his Wake Forest career which is 15 away from breaking into the top 10 in program history.
HOW IT HAPPENED
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Top-10 Regular Season David F. Couch Ballpark Crowds
FROM COACH WALTER
"We haven't been able to grab any momentum in this series. We put some good at-bats together and took the lead. The two innings in this game that made the difference were the two three-spots in the sixth and eighth.
That is where our ball club is right now. They aren't missing the mistakes we make and we aren't capitalizing on their mistakes. Our bullpen is in a tough spot right now. It makes it hard because we don't want to go to Gunther or Ray unless we have the lead. It was a little early in the sixth inning and Falco got a big strikeout in the fifth inning. We went with him in the sixth hoping that we would get a zero there and turn it over to Gunther and Ray to finish it out. Unfortunately we didn't get there." - head coach Tom Walter
UP NEXT
The Deacs conclude the three-game set against the Tar Heels tomorrow on ACC Network Extra at 1 p.m.
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Through the first month and a half of the season, the Demon Deacons have seen five of the top 10 crowds in regular season history including the three largest in program history.
After falling behind early, the Deac continued to battle, plating three runs in the fourth and fifth combined. Wake Forest took its first lead of the game at 3-2 in the fifth when junior Seaver King doubled down the left field line to plate Marek Houston and Cam Nelson.
King, a consensus preseason All-American, finished the game with a pair of hits and two RBI. He is now hitting .304 on the season with 27 RBI. In the last seven games, King has racked up 11 RBI and has gone 10-of-31 (.323) at the plate.
Junior Nick Kurtz tallied a pair of hits and two RBI Saturday night with a double down the left field line plating Houston and Nelson in the ninth.
With seven strikeouts in 4.2 innings pitched, junior lefthander Josh Hartle now has 220 strikeouts in his Wake Forest career which is 15 away from breaking into the top 10 in program history.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Lefty Josh Hartle got his night started with a pair of strikeouts in a scoreless top of the first.
- Hartle added his fourth strikeout in the second as Carolina took a 1-0 lead on a solo home run.
- The junior added two more strikeouts in the third to keep the Tar Heels at bay.
- North Carolina added another run in the top of the fourth on their second solo homer of the evening.
- Wake Forest answered with a run of their own in the bottom half.
- Third baseman Seaver King singled through the left side for the Deacs first hit of the night with one away.
- Senior Jake Reinisch slapped a single into right field to move King into scoring position.
- King came home on a Jack Winnay bloop single down the right field line and Carolina miscue to make it 2-1 in favor of UNC.
- The Deacs took the lead in the bottom of the fifth with a two-out, two-RBI double to left from King.
- Freshman Cam Nelson started the frame with a walk to put the leadoff man on.
- Shortstop Marek Houston moved Nelson into scoring position with a single to left field.
- A productive groundout from graduate transfer Adam Tellier moved both runners up 90 feet.
- Taking the first two breaking balls and then sending the third one foul, King didn't miss the fourth, rocketing it 117 mph to left field to bring in Nelson and Houston to give the Deacs the lead.
- North Carolina answered with the third home run of the game from first baseman Parks Harbor to retake a 5-3 lead.
- Back-to-back doubles from Winnay and Javar Williams cut the Carolina lead to 5-4 in the bottom of the sixth.
- A three-run home run in the top of the eight extended the UNC lead to 8-4.
- Carolina added two runs in the ninth.
- Wake Forest got a two-RBI double from designated hitter Nick Kurtz in the bottom of the ninth, but ultimately fell, 10-6.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
- After a season record-setting attendance during the 2023 season, Deacon Nation has set the tone throughout the 2024 season as tonight's crowd tied the largest regular season crowd in program history and is the fifth top-10 regular season crowd in program history this season.
Top-10 Regular Season David F. Couch Ballpark Crowds
| Rank | Attendance | Date | Opponent |
| T1. | 3,514 | Mar. 30, 2024 | North Carolina |
| T1. | 3,514 | Mar. 29, 2024 | North Carolina |
| T1. | 3,514 | Feb. 16, 2024 | Fordham |
| 4. | 3,023 | May 19, 2023 | Virginia Tech |
| 5. | 2,847 | March 8, 2024 | Duke |
| 6. | 2,750 | March 29, 2002 | Florida State |
| 7. | 2,568 | May 20, 2023 | Virginia Tech |
| 8. | 2,563 | March 3, 2024 | Elon |
| 9. | 2,519 | April 7, 2003 | North Carolina |
| 10. | 2,505 | May 18, 2023 | Virginia Tech |
FROM COACH WALTER
"We haven't been able to grab any momentum in this series. We put some good at-bats together and took the lead. The two innings in this game that made the difference were the two three-spots in the sixth and eighth.
That is where our ball club is right now. They aren't missing the mistakes we make and we aren't capitalizing on their mistakes. Our bullpen is in a tough spot right now. It makes it hard because we don't want to go to Gunther or Ray unless we have the lead. It was a little early in the sixth inning and Falco got a big strikeout in the fifth inning. We went with him in the sixth hoping that we would get a zero there and turn it over to Gunther and Ray to finish it out. Unfortunately we didn't get there." - head coach Tom Walter
UP NEXT
The Deacs conclude the three-game set against the Tar Heels tomorrow on ACC Network Extra at 1 p.m.
Follow The Deacs:
GoDeacs.com | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
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