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No. 13 Wake Forest Secures Series with Second-Straight Shutout of St. John’s
2/22/2025 8:12:00 PM | Baseball
The Demon Deacons allowed just two hits against the Red Storm on Saturday.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – No. 13 Wake Forest baseball cruised to an 11-0 victory over St. John's on Saturday afternoon at David F. Couch Ballpark, limiting the Red Storm to only two hits on the mound while the Demon Deacons racked up six extra-base hits offensively.
Starter Matthew Dallas was electric, holding the Red Storm to just one hit over 6.0 innings of scoreless work with four strikeouts. After a single with one out in the top of the first, Dallas allowed just two runners to reach scoring position through the rest of his outing.
Through the first two games of the series, Wake Forest's starting pitching has allowed just two hits in 11.1 innings, keeping the Red Storm off the scoreboard.
The relief combination of Matt Bedford, Griffin Green and Haiden Leffew allowed just two baserunners over the final 3.0 innings to seal the series on the mound.
At the plate, first baseman Jack Winnay had his fourth career multi-HR game, hitting a pair of home runs to left field in the second and third innings.
Designated hitter Kade Lewis homered for the second-straight day, going back-to-back with Winnay in the bottom of the third with a 338-foot blast to left field.
Sophomore Antonio Morales put together the first three-hit game of his Demon Deacon career with a trio of singles leading to an RBI and run scored for the Deacs' second baseman.
Center fielder Ethan Conrad finished the day 2-for-5 with a double and three RBI. Conrad currently leads the nation with six doubles through the first seven games of the season.
The top five hitters in Wake's lineup combined to go 10-for-21 (.476) at the plate.
HOW IT HAPPENED
STAGGERING STATISTIC
FROM COACH WALTER
"It was a great win for the program today, it's always good to win a series. Obviously, we have to come out strong and play well tomorrow. They've got their two best bullpen arms rested and a really good starter so we'll certainly have our hands full tomorrow. I'm really happy with Matt Dallas and our pitching staff today with only giving up two hits on the day. We had too many walks so I'd like to clean that up, but overall really pleased with how Dallas threw. Matt Bedford was really good as well. That's the best we've seen Griffin Green and then Haiden Leffew came in and closed it out. Offensively, it was good to see Marek Houston, Antonio Morales, Jack Winnay and Ethan Conrad do well at the top of our order. Really our first five guys in the order with Kade Lewis up there too had a good day. All around, a good team win and we're going to have to play well to win tomorrow because St. John's has all their bullpen pieces ready to roll. " - head coach Tom Walter
UP NEXT
The Demon Deacons go for the sweep tomorrow with first pitch at David F. Couch Ballpark set for 1 p.m. ET on ACC Network Extra.
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Starter Matthew Dallas was electric, holding the Red Storm to just one hit over 6.0 innings of scoreless work with four strikeouts. After a single with one out in the top of the first, Dallas allowed just two runners to reach scoring position through the rest of his outing.
Through the first two games of the series, Wake Forest's starting pitching has allowed just two hits in 11.1 innings, keeping the Red Storm off the scoreboard.
The relief combination of Matt Bedford, Griffin Green and Haiden Leffew allowed just two baserunners over the final 3.0 innings to seal the series on the mound.
At the plate, first baseman Jack Winnay had his fourth career multi-HR game, hitting a pair of home runs to left field in the second and third innings.
Designated hitter Kade Lewis homered for the second-straight day, going back-to-back with Winnay in the bottom of the third with a 338-foot blast to left field.
Sophomore Antonio Morales put together the first three-hit game of his Demon Deacon career with a trio of singles leading to an RBI and run scored for the Deacs' second baseman.
Center fielder Ethan Conrad finished the day 2-for-5 with a double and three RBI. Conrad currently leads the nation with six doubles through the first seven games of the season.
The top five hitters in Wake's lineup combined to go 10-for-21 (.476) at the plate.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Starter Matthew Dallas worked a clean first inning with a pair of groundouts and a flyout.
- Junior Jack Winnay led off the second with a solo home run to left to give the Deacs a 1-0 advantage.
- Wake added five runs in the third to take a 6-0 lead.
- Catcher Jimmy Keenan led off the frame with a seven-pitch walk.
- Sophomore Antonio Morales roped his second hit of the day to put two on for Wake Forest.
- A productive groundout moved both runners into scoring position and a single up the middle from transfer Ethan Conrad stretched the lead to 3-0.
- Winnay left the yard to left field again, homering for the second time on the day to make it 5-0 in favor of the Demon Deacons.
- Designated hitter Kade Lewis launched his second home run in as many days, a solo shot to left, to cap the scoring in the third.
- Dallas struck out a pair in the fourth for a shutdown inning after the big frame from the Wake offense.
- The lefty continued to dominate the Red Storm lineup with another clean frame in the top of the fifth.
- Lewis drove in his second run with an RBI single in the bottom of the fifth to make it 7-0 Wake Forest.
- Dallas concluded his day, allowing just one hit over 6.0 scoreless innings with four strikeouts.
- Reliever Matt Bedford made quick work of St. John's in the seventh, needing just seven pitches to complete the inning.
- Transfer Griffin Green needed just eight pitches in the eighth to retire the side in order, striking out the final batter.
- Wake Forest added four runs in the bottom of the eighth to stretch the score to 11-0.
- Freshman Dalton Wentz led off the inning with a double down the first base line.
- Back-to-back walks loaded the bases with one away, and Morales drove in a run with an RBI groundout.
- Houston plated two with a double to right field to make it 10-0.
- Conrad capped the scoring with a ground-rule double to the right-center gap, plating Houston for the final run.
- Leffew retired the Red Storm in order in the ninth to finish the 11-0 victory.
- The top five hitters in Wake's lineup combined to go 10-for-21 (.476) at the plate.
- Leadoff hitter Antonio Morales put together the first three-hit game of his Demon Deacon career, finishing 3-for-5.
- Shortstop Marek Houston had a two-RBI double in the bottom of the eighth.
- Three-hole hitter Ethan Conrad had a multi-hit game, including his sixth double of the year.
- Batting clean-up, Jack Winnay left the yard twice for his fourth career multi-HR game.
- Designated hitter Kade Lewis homered for the second-straight day and had his fourth multi-hit effort of the young season.
STAGGERING STATISTIC
- Wake Forest picked up back-to-back shutouts for the first time since the 2023 season with the 7-0 and 11-0 victories over St. John's so far this weekend.
- As a pitching staff, Wake lowered its season ERA to 1.45 through the first seven games.
- Through the first two games of the series, Wake Forest's starting pitching has allowed just two hits in 11.1 innings, keeping the Red Storm off the scoreboard.
- The Demon Deacons have now won 62-straight regular season non-conference home games dating back to May 8, 2021, with the last loss coming against in-state foe Elon that season.
FROM COACH WALTER
"It was a great win for the program today, it's always good to win a series. Obviously, we have to come out strong and play well tomorrow. They've got their two best bullpen arms rested and a really good starter so we'll certainly have our hands full tomorrow. I'm really happy with Matt Dallas and our pitching staff today with only giving up two hits on the day. We had too many walks so I'd like to clean that up, but overall really pleased with how Dallas threw. Matt Bedford was really good as well. That's the best we've seen Griffin Green and then Haiden Leffew came in and closed it out. Offensively, it was good to see Marek Houston, Antonio Morales, Jack Winnay and Ethan Conrad do well at the top of our order. Really our first five guys in the order with Kade Lewis up there too had a good day. All around, a good team win and we're going to have to play well to win tomorrow because St. John's has all their bullpen pieces ready to roll. " - head coach Tom Walter
UP NEXT
The Demon Deacons go for the sweep tomorrow with first pitch at David F. Couch Ballpark set for 1 p.m. ET on ACC Network Extra.
Follow The Deacs:
GoDeacs.com | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Dallas, Matthew (2-0)
L: Rodriguez, David (0-2)
Base Running:
SB: LeGrande, Jon 1
HBP: Orbon, Luke 1
Batting:
2B: Schaaf, Blake 1 ; Brennecke, Ryan 1 ; Wentz, Dalton 1
HR: Miller, Jackson 2 ; Lewis, Kade 1
RBI: Nicholson, Grant 1 ; Schaaf, Blake 2 ; Brennecke, Ryan 3 ; Miller, Jackson 3 ; Lewis, Kade 2
Base Running:
RUNS: Nicholson, Grant 1 ; Schaaf, Blake 2 ; Brennecke, Ryan 1 ; Miller, Jackson 2 ; Lewis, Kade 1 ; Wentz, Dalton 1 ; Keenan, Jimmy 2 ; Matt Scannell 1
SB: Keenan, Jimmy 1
CS: Nicholson, Grant 1
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