North Carolina State University Athletics
NC State
37-14
Campbell
23-28
NC State Baseball Defeats Campbell, 11-3
5/17/2005 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
May 17, 2005
RALEIGH, N.C. - Jason St. Julien hit two doubles and a home run and drove in three runs Tuesday night to lift NC State past Campbell 11-3 in non-conference baseball action at Doak Field.
The win, NC State's 15th in its last 19 games, lifts the Wolfpack to 37-14 for the season. NC State now has won more games than did in the entire 2004 season, and won all 12 midweek games this season. Campbell fell to 23-28 with the loss.
Redshirt-sophomore Sam Walls (4-0) got credit for the win with six solid innings. He allowed three runs, all unearned, on seven hits. He walked two and struck out two. Campbell starter Jason Topol (0-2) was charged with the loss after the Wolfpack reached him for 10 runs, all earned, on 15 hits in 5 2/3 innings. He walked three and struck out one.
St. Julien and Ryan Pond both went 3-for-4 for NC State, which now has scored 10 runs or more in a game for fou rconsecutive games for the first time in three years. Pond drove in two runs. Caleb Mangum went 2-for-5 with an RBI, and Ramon Corona was 2-for-4 with an RBI. Matt Devine went 2-for-3. Jeff Randol led the Camels with three hits, including a triple, in four at-bats. He had two RBIs.
Joe Anthonsen led off the game and hit Walls' first pitch to Corona at second base, but the ball got through Corona for an error. Former Wolfpack infielder Tim Holt walked. After Mike Priest popped out, Mike Ange hit a high chopper that kangarooed over the head of Pond at first base and into right field for an RBI-single. Anthonsen scored on the play and Holt went to third. With two down, Randol drove a 3-2 pitch the other way for a two-run triple down the right-field line, giving the Camels a 3-0 lead.
Matt Camp led off the bottom of the first for the Wolfpack and walked. With one away, Corona flied to right field, and Camp, runing aggressively, advanced to second on the play, and came around to score on Pond's single to left, making it 3-1.
St. Julien led off the bottom of the second with a double into the right-field corner. Devine lined a single to center field to put runners on the corner, and St. Julien came in to score when Jonathan Diaz grounded into a 6-4-3 double play. Camp followed with a single to left field and took second when left fielder Alston Hatch overran the ball for an error. Mangum cashed in the error with an RBI-single to center, driving in Camp with the tying run, and Corona drove a triple off the top of the wall in left-center to drive in Mangum and give the Wolfpack a 4-3 lead.
Both pitchers settled in for a few innings after that. Topol retired eight of 11 batters heading into the bottom of the fifth, but Mike Jensen singled to center with two down and St. Julien hit his first homer of the year to hike the lead to three runs at 6-3.
The Pack struck after two were out again in the bottom of the sixth. Corona singled through the right side of the infield and stole second. Pond singled to center to drive in Corona, then went to second when center fielder Jeff Blick overran the ball for the Camels' second error of the game. Mezistrano singled to center to drive in Pond and make it 8-3. Topol then walked Bryan Kinneberg and was done for the night. Joe Waldecker came on in relief for the Camels and St. Julien legged out an RBI-double on a Baltimore-chopper over the head of the third baseman. Kinneberg went to third on the play, then scored when Waldecker uncorked a wild pitch, making it 10-3.
Walls, meanwhile, worked his way through a shaky second inning, then retired 12 of the last 15 men he faced, including one stretch of seven men in a row, and handed a 10-3 lead over to the bullpen after the sixth inning.
NC State added an unearned run in the bottom of the eighth. Corona led off with a walk and Chris Engle pinch-ran. Mezistrano drew a one-out walk and Ryan Johnson pinch-ran for him. Kinneberg followed with a double to right-center. Engle held up momentarily on the play, and he and Johnson came around the bases almost in tandem, only a few feet apart. Center fielder Brandon Scott's throw was in time to retire Engle, but catcher Matt Marek dropped the ball for a run-scoring error. Johnson, however, was caught in a run-down between third and home and was tagged out by Holt.
NC State will return to action on Thursday vs. Florida State in the final three-game Atlantic Coast Conference series of the season. Game times are 7 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, and 2 p.m. on Saturday. All three games will be broadcast on WKNC-FM (88.1) and on the internet on gopack.com. Live in-game stats will be available on gopack.com through the Gametracker.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Walls, Sam (4-0)
L: Jordan Topal (0-2)
Batting:
2B: Justin Phillips 1
3B: Jeff Randol 1
RBI: Mike Ange 1 ; Jeff Randol 2
Base Running:
RUNS: Joe Anthonsen 1 ; Tim Holt 1 ; Mike Ange 1
SB: Alston Hatch 1 ; Jeff Randol 1
Batting:
2B: Kinneberg, Bryan 1 ; St. Julien, Jason 2 ; Devine, Matt 1
3B: Corona , Ramon 1
HR: St. Julien, Jason 1
RBI: Mangum, Caleb 1 ; Corona , Ramon 1 ; Pond, Ryan 2 ; Mezistrano, Lee 1 ; Kinneberg, Bryan 1 ; St. Julien, Jason 3
Base Running:
RUNS: Camp, Matt 2 ; Mangum, Caleb 1 ; Corona , Ramon 1 ; Engle, Chris 1 ; Pond, Ryan 1 ; Mezistrano, Lee 1 ; Kinneberg, Bryan 2 ; St. Julien, Jason 2
SB: Corona , Ramon 1 ; Mezistrano, Lee 1
