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Raleigh, N.C.
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#Pack9 Downs UNCW, 9-1
5/11/2021 9:54:00 PM | Baseball
RALEIGH – Even after a nine-day break from competition, NC State baseball (23-14) remained red-hot on Tuesday evening as it defeated UNCW (26-17), 9-1, at Doak Field at Dail Park.
With the victory, the Wolfpack completes the home-and-home series sweep over the Seahawks.
Six of the team's nine runs came by way of the home run, as Vojtech Mensik, Luca Tresh, Jonny Butler and Devonte Brown each went yard in the contest. It was the fourth time this season the squad has hit at least four homers in a single game.
Behind the hot bats was a dominant outing on the mound by Chris Villaman (5-2) who yielded just two hits and one walk while fanning a career-best 12 batters in the eight innings he pitched. Matt Willadsen tossed the final inning of the contest and tallied two strikeouts for a combined 14 on the night, matching the team's season best in a single game.
NC State plated three runs in the second thanks to Brown's one-out RBI single to right field, scoring Tresh after he reached on an error to start the side. Mensik then crushed his third home run of the season to left field to drive in the other two runs.
In the third, an RBI groundout by Butler followed by a solo shot to left field by Tresh, his ninth of the year, extended NC State's lead to 5-0.
The Seahawks' only run of the night game in the fourth when Matt Suggs led off the inning with a home run to left field, making the score 5-1.
Butler belted his ninth long ball of the season in the fifth inning to make it 6-1, and then added another run in the seventh when he scored on a passed ball after hitting a one-out triple off the left field wall. Brown's two-run homer to left field in the seventh, his eighth on the year, capped off the Pack's scoring.
SCORING RECAP
OF NOTE
ON DECK
Friday, May 14 · @ Pittsburgh · 6 PM
Saturday, May 15 · @ Pittsburgh · 3 PM
Sunday, May 16 · @ Pittsburgh · 1 PM
With the victory, the Wolfpack completes the home-and-home series sweep over the Seahawks.
Six of the team's nine runs came by way of the home run, as Vojtech Mensik, Luca Tresh, Jonny Butler and Devonte Brown each went yard in the contest. It was the fourth time this season the squad has hit at least four homers in a single game.
Behind the hot bats was a dominant outing on the mound by Chris Villaman (5-2) who yielded just two hits and one walk while fanning a career-best 12 batters in the eight innings he pitched. Matt Willadsen tossed the final inning of the contest and tallied two strikeouts for a combined 14 on the night, matching the team's season best in a single game.
NC State plated three runs in the second thanks to Brown's one-out RBI single to right field, scoring Tresh after he reached on an error to start the side. Mensik then crushed his third home run of the season to left field to drive in the other two runs.
In the third, an RBI groundout by Butler followed by a solo shot to left field by Tresh, his ninth of the year, extended NC State's lead to 5-0.
The Seahawks' only run of the night game in the fourth when Matt Suggs led off the inning with a home run to left field, making the score 5-1.
Butler belted his ninth long ball of the season in the fifth inning to make it 6-1, and then added another run in the seventh when he scored on a passed ball after hitting a one-out triple off the left field wall. Brown's two-run homer to left field in the seventh, his eighth on the year, capped off the Pack's scoring.
SCORING RECAP
- B2: Brown drove in Tresh from third with his single to right field (NCSU 1, UNCW 0 – 1 out)
- B2: Mensik hit a two-run homer to left field (NCSU 3, UNCW 0 – 2 outs)
- B3: Murr scored from third on Butler's groundout to first (NCSU 4, UNCW 0 – 1 out)
- B3: Tresh homered to left field (NCSU 5, UNCW 0 – 2 outs)
- T4: Suggs homered to left field (NCSU 5, UNCW 1 – no outs)
- B5: Butler homered to right field (NCSU 6, UNCW 1 – 1 out)
- B7: Butler scored from third on a passed ball (NCSU 7, UNCW 1 – 2 outs)
- B7: Brown belted a two-run home run to left field (NCSU 9, UNCW 1 – 2 outs)
OF NOTE
- NC State has hit at least one home run in 29 of its 37 games, and has hit two or more in a single game on 18 separate occasions.
- Brown extended his hit streak to a team-best seven games with his 2-for-3 performance at the plate with three runs batted in.
- Brown leads the team with 10 multi-RBI games on the year.
- Butler also turned in a multi-hit game as he went 2-for-4 with a triple and home run and two RBIs.
ON DECK
Friday, May 14 · @ Pittsburgh · 6 PM
Saturday, May 15 · @ Pittsburgh · 3 PM
Sunday, May 16 · @ Pittsburgh · 1 PM
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Villaman, Chris (5-2)
L: Carter Holjes (0-2)
Batting:
HR: Matt Suggs 1
RBI: Matt Suggs 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Matt Suggs 1
SB: Matt Suggs 1
Batting:
3B: Butler, Jonny 1
HR: Butler, Jonny 1 ; Tresh, Luca 1 ; Brown, Devonte 1 ; Mensik, Vojtech 1
RBI: Butler, Jonny 2 ; Tresh, Luca 1 ; Brown, Devonte 3 ; Mensik, Vojtech 2
Base Running:
RUNS: Murr, Austin 1 ; Butler, Jonny 2 ; Tresh, Luca 2 ; Tatum, Terrell 1 ; Brown, Devonte 2 ; Mensik, Vojtech 1
SB: Murr, Austin 1 ; Tatum, Terrell 3
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