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No. 16 Wake Forest Falls in Series Finale
3/30/2025 9:38:00 PM | Baseball
The Demon Deacons travel to Kannapolis on Tuesday, April 1 for a 7 p.m. ET first pitch against High Point.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Despite a great start from sophomore Blake Morningstar on the mound, the No. 16 Wake Forest baseball team was unable to hold onto a late lead, as the Demon Deacons fell, 6-5, in the final game of the series against Virginia Tech on Sunday evening at David F. Couch Ballpark.
Morningstar had the best outing of his career, collecting a career-high 10 strikeouts over a career-long 7.0 innings. The righty retired 10-straight Hokies over innings three through six and allowed just two runs on five hits.
Wake Forest scored all five of its runs with two outs in the contest, with a run in the fourth and a pair of two-out runs in both the seventh and ninth innings.
Sophomore Antonio Morales roped the second triple of his career to tie the game in the seventh, roping a 1-2 pitch that rolled all the way to the wall in right center to plate second baseman Dalton Wentz from first base.
Pinch hitter Luke Costello came up clutch, placing the fourth pitch of his at-bat through the left side to bring in Morales and give Wake Forest the lead.
After three runs from Virginia Tech in the top of the ninth, right fielder Matt Scannell put the tying run 90 feet away on a two-out, two-RBI triple, but the Demon Deacons were unable to bring him in.
Designated hitter Kade Lewis extended his hit streak to 18-straight games with a base hit in the eighth inning.
HOW IT HAPPENED
"It's a bad loss. I've got to make better decisions there at the end of the game to give ourselves a better chance to win with our pitching decisions. So, that loss is on me. I thought our guys did a great job of battling late in the game with our two-out hitting. [Luke] Costello came off the bench with a big hit. There in the ninth inning [Matt] Scannell, [Cam Nelson] and [Antonio Morales] gave us a chance. It's a disappointing weekend and we've got to bounce back and get ready for Tuesday. High Point is playing great baseball and we're going to need to play well on Tuesday." - Head Coach Tom Walter
UP NEXT
Wake Forest takes on High Point in Kannapolis on Tuesday, Apr. 1. First pitch from Atrium Health Ballpark is set for 7 p.m. ET.
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Morningstar had the best outing of his career, collecting a career-high 10 strikeouts over a career-long 7.0 innings. The righty retired 10-straight Hokies over innings three through six and allowed just two runs on five hits.
Wake Forest scored all five of its runs with two outs in the contest, with a run in the fourth and a pair of two-out runs in both the seventh and ninth innings.
Sophomore Antonio Morales roped the second triple of his career to tie the game in the seventh, roping a 1-2 pitch that rolled all the way to the wall in right center to plate second baseman Dalton Wentz from first base.
Pinch hitter Luke Costello came up clutch, placing the fourth pitch of his at-bat through the left side to bring in Morales and give Wake Forest the lead.
After three runs from Virginia Tech in the top of the ninth, right fielder Matt Scannell put the tying run 90 feet away on a two-out, two-RBI triple, but the Demon Deacons were unable to bring him in.
Designated hitter Kade Lewis extended his hit streak to 18-straight games with a base hit in the eighth inning.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Starter Blake Morningstar retired the Hokies in order in the first two innings.
- Wake loaded the bases in the second but was unable to strike first.
- Virginia Tech took a 1-0 lead on a pair of miscues from the Demon Deacon defense.
- The Demon Deacons put a pair in scoring position in the third, but the score remained 1-0 in favor of the visitors.
- Morningstar ran his strikeout total to four with a pair in the top of the fourth.
- Wake Forest tied the contest in the bottom of the fourth after a wild pitch plated Keenan from third.
- The righty retired the side in order in the fifth and added two more strikeouts.
- First baseman Jack Winnay collected the first hit for Wake Forest with a single through the left side in the fifth.
- Tech regained the lead on a solo home run in the top of the sixth.
- Morningstar collected his career-high 10th strikeout on his final pitch to get through 7.0 innings of work.
- Wake Forest grabbed the lead with a pair of two-out runs in the bottom of the seventh.
- Freshman Dalton Wentz started the two-out rally with a four-pitch walk.
- Down 1-2 in the count, second baseman Antonio Morales laced an RBI triple to the wall in right center to plate Wentz and tied the game at 2-2.
- Pinch hitter Luke Costello poked a single through the left side to give Wake Forest its first lead of the evening.
- Relievers Josh Gunther and Zach Johnston combined to keep Virginia Tech at bay in the eighth inning.
- Virginia Tech scored four runs in the top of the ninth to win.
- Wake Forest got the tying run to third in the bottom half with a two-RBI triple from Matt Scannell.
- The Hokies won the series finale, 6-5.
"It's a bad loss. I've got to make better decisions there at the end of the game to give ourselves a better chance to win with our pitching decisions. So, that loss is on me. I thought our guys did a great job of battling late in the game with our two-out hitting. [Luke] Costello came off the bench with a big hit. There in the ninth inning [Matt] Scannell, [Cam Nelson] and [Antonio Morales] gave us a chance. It's a disappointing weekend and we've got to bounce back and get ready for Tuesday. High Point is playing great baseball and we're going to need to play well on Tuesday." - Head Coach Tom Walter
UP NEXT
Wake Forest takes on High Point in Kannapolis on Tuesday, Apr. 1. First pitch from Atrium Health Ballpark is set for 7 p.m. ET.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Cameron LeJeune (1-0)
L: Johnston, Zach (1-1)
Batting:
2B: Ethan Gibson 1 ; Hudson Lutterman 1
HR: Ben Watson 1
RBI: Jared Davis 1 ; Ben Watson 2 ; Hudson Lutterman 1 ; David Lewis 1 ; Clay Grady 1
SF: Jared Davis 1 ; Clay Grady 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Ben Watson 1 ; Ethan Gibson 1 ; Hudson Lutterman 1 ; Jackson Cherry 1 ; Cam Pittman 1 ; Clay Grady 1
HBP: Ben Watson 1
Batting:
3B: Matt Scannell 1 ; Nicholson, Grant 1
RBI: Matt Scannell 2 ; Nicholson, Grant 1 ; Costello, Luke 1
SH: Roper, Jackson 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Wentz, Dalton 1 ; Nicholson, Grant 2 ; Keenan, Jimmy 1 ; Roper, Jackson 1
SB: Williams, Javar 1 ; Lewis, Kade 1 ; Roper, Jackson 1
HBP: Matt Scannell 1 ; Williams, Javar 1
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