Wednesday, May 22
Charlotte, NC
3 p.m.
Wake Forest University
vs
Pitt
No. 22 Wake Forest Opens Postseason Play at 2024 ACC Tournament
5/21/2024 1:14:00 PM | Baseball
The Deacs open postseason action in the 2024 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship with pool play competition against 12th-seeded Pitt and 1st-seeded North Carolina.
CHARLOTTE – The No. 22 Wake Forest baseball team earned the No. 8 seed in Pool A for the 2024 ACC Baseball Championship and will open postseason play tomorrow against Pitt in Charlotte at Truist Field.
First pitch between the Demon Deacons and Panthers is set for 3 p.m. Wake concludes pool competition on Friday, May 26 at 7 p.m. against top-seed North Carolina (41-12, 22-8 ACC). Both games will be on ACC Network.
The team with the best record in each pool will advance to the semifinals, which are scheduled for Saturday, May 25 at 1 and 5 p.m. on ACC Network. If teams are tied at the end of pool competition, the team with the highest seed in the respective pool will advance.
The 2024 ACC Championship Game is set for Sunday, May 26 at noon on ESPN2.
For more information on the 2024 ACC Tournament, click here. For tickets, click here.
For the third year in a row, a Wake Forest starting pitcher took home Atlantic Coast Conference Pitcher of the Year honors, as junior right-hander Chase Burns was crowned by the league on Monday afternoon.
Additionally, for the third-straight year at least four Wake Forest baseball student-athletes were named to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference teams, as ACC Pitcher of the Year Chase Burns and first baseman Nick Kurtz both earned First-Team honors while shortstop Marek Houston and junior Seaver King garnered Third-Team honors.
First Degree Burns
• ACC Pitcher of the Year Chase Burns has been lights out in his first season with the Demon Deacons, posting a 10-1 record in his 14 starts.
• He ranks inside the top five in the ACC in nearly every pitching statistical category and leads the nation with 169 punchouts on the season.
• Burns has been untouchable in the month of May, compiling 42 strikeouts to just three walks for a 14.00 K/BB ratio and a ridiculous 18.90 K/9 ratio to go along with a 0.45 ERA in three starts.
•With his run from March 11 to March 25 and again from May 6 to May 20, Burns is believed to be the first ACC pitcher to take home three-straight Pitcher of the Week honors since at least 2000.
•He joined elite company this week, becoming just one of two Atlantic Coast Conference pitchers to win the award six times in a season.
•Burns is the only six-time winner in Wake Forest baseball program history.
• The transfer has fanned at least 10 batters in 11 of his 14 starts this season, setting a new career high with 16 against Clemson two weeks ago.
• In his start at NC State, Burns allowed five hits and no earned runs over 7.0 IP against the Wolfpack with 13 punchouts or more for the fourth-straight start.
• With his fourth strikeout against Clemson, Burns surpassed Deacs legend Rhett Lowder for the single-season strikeout record with 144 and added 12 more for good measure.
The Man Just Gets on Base
• First Team All-ACC first baseman Nick Kurtz ranks first nationally with 1.45 bases on balls per game, as he has earned 71 free passes so far this season in 49 games played.
• Kurtz became the Wake Forest program record holder with 182 free passes throughout his career, surpassing Pat Blair (180 / 2010-13).
• Additionally, he also set the single-season walk record with his nation-leading 70th of the campaign, surpassing Brock Wilken's 69 bases on balls a season ago.
• This season, Kurtz has 17 multi-walk performances and eight with at least three.
• The junior has now reached base 386 total times in his career in 758 plate appearances.
• He holds a staggering .509 career on-base percentage over the course of his three seasons in a Wake Forest uniform. Additionally, Kurtz is the one of three players in Division-I to play more than 100 career games and have a career OBP of .500 or better.
• This season he has a team-best .532 on-base percentage, following up his sophomore campaign where Kurtz had an eye-popping .527 on-base percentage.
• The pop matches his patience, as Kurtz ranks fifth among active Division-I players with 60 home runs, and moved into second all-time in program history, as he currently paces the team with 21 homers on the year.
• The junior sits at third all-time with 203 runs scored and is just fifteen hits away from becoming one of just 30 hitters in Wake history to join the 200 hit club.
Up Next
Should Wake Forest win both games of Pool A, the Demon Deacons would advance to the semifinals and face the winner of Pool D (#4 Virginia, #5 Florida State, #9 Georgia Tech) on Saturday, May 25 at 1 p.m. on the ACC Network.
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First pitch between the Demon Deacons and Panthers is set for 3 p.m. Wake concludes pool competition on Friday, May 26 at 7 p.m. against top-seed North Carolina (41-12, 22-8 ACC). Both games will be on ACC Network.
The team with the best record in each pool will advance to the semifinals, which are scheduled for Saturday, May 25 at 1 and 5 p.m. on ACC Network. If teams are tied at the end of pool competition, the team with the highest seed in the respective pool will advance.
The 2024 ACC Championship Game is set for Sunday, May 26 at noon on ESPN2.
For more information on the 2024 ACC Tournament, click here. For tickets, click here.
For the third year in a row, a Wake Forest starting pitcher took home Atlantic Coast Conference Pitcher of the Year honors, as junior right-hander Chase Burns was crowned by the league on Monday afternoon.
Additionally, for the third-straight year at least four Wake Forest baseball student-athletes were named to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference teams, as ACC Pitcher of the Year Chase Burns and first baseman Nick Kurtz both earned First-Team honors while shortstop Marek Houston and junior Seaver King garnered Third-Team honors.
First Degree Burns
• ACC Pitcher of the Year Chase Burns has been lights out in his first season with the Demon Deacons, posting a 10-1 record in his 14 starts.
• He ranks inside the top five in the ACC in nearly every pitching statistical category and leads the nation with 169 punchouts on the season.
• Burns has been untouchable in the month of May, compiling 42 strikeouts to just three walks for a 14.00 K/BB ratio and a ridiculous 18.90 K/9 ratio to go along with a 0.45 ERA in three starts.
•With his run from March 11 to March 25 and again from May 6 to May 20, Burns is believed to be the first ACC pitcher to take home three-straight Pitcher of the Week honors since at least 2000.
•He joined elite company this week, becoming just one of two Atlantic Coast Conference pitchers to win the award six times in a season.
•Burns is the only six-time winner in Wake Forest baseball program history.
• The transfer has fanned at least 10 batters in 11 of his 14 starts this season, setting a new career high with 16 against Clemson two weeks ago.
• In his start at NC State, Burns allowed five hits and no earned runs over 7.0 IP against the Wolfpack with 13 punchouts or more for the fourth-straight start.
• With his fourth strikeout against Clemson, Burns surpassed Deacs legend Rhett Lowder for the single-season strikeout record with 144 and added 12 more for good measure.
The Man Just Gets on Base
• First Team All-ACC first baseman Nick Kurtz ranks first nationally with 1.45 bases on balls per game, as he has earned 71 free passes so far this season in 49 games played.
• Kurtz became the Wake Forest program record holder with 182 free passes throughout his career, surpassing Pat Blair (180 / 2010-13).
• Additionally, he also set the single-season walk record with his nation-leading 70th of the campaign, surpassing Brock Wilken's 69 bases on balls a season ago.
• This season, Kurtz has 17 multi-walk performances and eight with at least three.
• The junior has now reached base 386 total times in his career in 758 plate appearances.
• He holds a staggering .509 career on-base percentage over the course of his three seasons in a Wake Forest uniform. Additionally, Kurtz is the one of three players in Division-I to play more than 100 career games and have a career OBP of .500 or better.
• This season he has a team-best .532 on-base percentage, following up his sophomore campaign where Kurtz had an eye-popping .527 on-base percentage.
• The pop matches his patience, as Kurtz ranks fifth among active Division-I players with 60 home runs, and moved into second all-time in program history, as he currently paces the team with 21 homers on the year.
• The junior sits at third all-time with 203 runs scored and is just fifteen hits away from becoming one of just 30 hitters in Wake history to join the 200 hit club.
Up Next
Should Wake Forest win both games of Pool A, the Demon Deacons would advance to the semifinals and face the winner of Pool D (#4 Virginia, #5 Florida State, #9 Georgia Tech) on Saturday, May 25 at 1 p.m. on the ACC Network.
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