Saturday, April 9
Blacksburg, Va. / English Field
3 PM
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#Pack9 Falls To Hokies, 8-2
4/9/2022 7:20:00 PM | Baseball
BLACKSBURG, Va. – No. 20 NC State baseball (18-11, 6-7 ACC) fell in the second game of its series with No. 23 Virginia Tech (20-7, 7-5 ACC) on Saturday afternoon at English Field at Atlantic Union Bank Park, 8-2.
With the loss, the Wolfpack drops its series with the Hokies. It is the first time in the series history that NC State has ever dropped a series to Virginia Tech.
After two scoreless innings, the Hokies broke the deadlock in the third when Carson DeMartini stole home after a pair of outfield singles and a walk loaded the bases up with two outs. The teams battled wintry conditions on Saturday and had to go into a 33-minute delay following the completion of the third inning.
In the fifth, Virginia Tech added to its lead with Tanner Schobel's two-run homer to left field and Eduardo Malinowski's RBI triple to center field, making it 4-0.
NC State got on the board in the sixth when Dominic Pilolli drove in Devonte Brown, who reached on a hit-by-pitch, from first with an RBI triple down the right field line. It was Pilolli's second triple of the year.
J.T. Jarrett's solo shot to left field in the seventh, his second homer of the season, cut the Pack's deficit in half to 4-2.
The Hokies regained their four-run lead back in the seventh via Schobel's second two-run homer of the game, and then a bases-loaded wild pitch and RBI groundout in the eighth made it 8-2.
Six different players tallied a hit in the contest, as LuJames Groover III extended his hit streak to 16 and his reached base streak to 19 to lead the Pack's offense in those respective categories.
NC State and Virginia Tech will meet Sunday in the series finale at English Field at Atlantic Union Bank Park with first pitch set for 1 p.m. The game will be broadcast on ACCNX and there will be an audio stream on WKNC 88.1 and the Varsity Network App.
With the loss, the Wolfpack drops its series with the Hokies. It is the first time in the series history that NC State has ever dropped a series to Virginia Tech.
After two scoreless innings, the Hokies broke the deadlock in the third when Carson DeMartini stole home after a pair of outfield singles and a walk loaded the bases up with two outs. The teams battled wintry conditions on Saturday and had to go into a 33-minute delay following the completion of the third inning.
In the fifth, Virginia Tech added to its lead with Tanner Schobel's two-run homer to left field and Eduardo Malinowski's RBI triple to center field, making it 4-0.
NC State got on the board in the sixth when Dominic Pilolli drove in Devonte Brown, who reached on a hit-by-pitch, from first with an RBI triple down the right field line. It was Pilolli's second triple of the year.
J.T. Jarrett's solo shot to left field in the seventh, his second homer of the season, cut the Pack's deficit in half to 4-2.
The Hokies regained their four-run lead back in the seventh via Schobel's second two-run homer of the game, and then a bases-loaded wild pitch and RBI groundout in the eighth made it 8-2.
Six different players tallied a hit in the contest, as LuJames Groover III extended his hit streak to 16 and his reached base streak to 19 to lead the Pack's offense in those respective categories.
NC State and Virginia Tech will meet Sunday in the series finale at English Field at Atlantic Union Bank Park with first pitch set for 1 p.m. The game will be broadcast on ACCNX and there will be an audio stream on WKNC 88.1 and the Varsity Network App.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Drue Hackenberg (6-0)
L: Willadsen, Matt (1-3)
Batting:
3B: Pilolli, Dominic 1
HR: Jarrett, J.T. 1
RBI: Pilolli, Dominic 1 ; Jarrett, J.T. 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Brown, Devonte 1 ; Jarrett, J.T. 1
HBP: Brown, Devonte 1
Batting:
2B: Nick Biddison 1
3B: Eduardo Malinowski 1
HR: Tanner Schobel 2
RBI: Gavin Cross 1 ; Tanner Schobel 4 ; Eduardo Malinowski 1
SH: Christian Martin 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Gavin Cross 2 ; Tanner Schobel 2 ; Jack Hurley 1 ; Nick Holesa 1 ; Carson DeMartini 2
SB: Carson DeMartini 1
CS: Christian Martin 1
HBP: Cade Hunter 2
Game Leaders
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