Friday, May 13
Durham, N.C. / Jack Coombs Field
12 PM
NC State
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Late Surge Pushes #Pack9 Past Blue Devils
5/13/2022 3:53:00 PM | Baseball
DURHAM, N.C. – Thanks to a four-run surge in the seventh inning, NC State baseball (31-16, 13-11 ACC) opened its series with Duke (20-28, 9-17 ACC) on Friday afternoon with a 5-3 win at Jack Coombs Field.
The Pack got off to a fast start when Devonte Brown swung at the first pitch of the game and roped a double down the left field line, and then scored on LuJames Groover III's RBI single up the middle.
The Blue Devils took the lead in the third with a pair of runs on four hits. Alex Mooney laced a one-out double to left field, and then RJ Schreck, Chad Knight and Luke Storm strung together three consecutive hits to drive in the runs.
Duke extended its lead to 3-1 in the sixth on another RBI single, as Mooney drove in Trevor Johnson from third after leading off with an infield single and moving to second on a balk and third on a groundout.
The Pack surged back in the seventh with four runs on as many hits to take a 5-3 lead. After a single by J.T. Jarrett followed by a double by Dominic Pilolli and a walk from Payton Green loaded the bases, Jacob Cozart delivered with a two-RBI double to knot the game up at 3-3.
Brown drove in the go-ahead run to make it 4-3 with his third hit of the day, a single to center field to score Green, and then Cozart came home from third on a double play to tack on the insurance run.
Starting pitcher Logan Whitaker had a strong outing on the mound, matching his career long in innings pitched with 6.0 and his career high in strikeouts with eight en route to improving to 2-2 on the mound this year.
Chris Villaman relieved Whitaker in the seventh and tossed the final three innings to pick up his team-leading ninth save of the year. He allowed just one batter to reach base and tallied five strikeouts.
At the plate, Brown and Cozart led the Pack's offense with three hits apiece while five other players had a hit to combine for 11 on the day. It marked Cozart's third-straight multi-hit game and it was Brown's seventh multi-hit outing in nine games.
Additionally, Cozart led the squad with two runs batted in to mark his fourth consecutive multi-RBI performance.
NC State will meet with Duke for game two of the series Saturday with first pitch slated for 1 p.m. at Jack Coombs Field. The game will be broadcast on Regional Sports Networks (RSN) and there will be a radio broadcast on WKNC 88.1 and the Varsity Network App.
The Pack got off to a fast start when Devonte Brown swung at the first pitch of the game and roped a double down the left field line, and then scored on LuJames Groover III's RBI single up the middle.
The Blue Devils took the lead in the third with a pair of runs on four hits. Alex Mooney laced a one-out double to left field, and then RJ Schreck, Chad Knight and Luke Storm strung together three consecutive hits to drive in the runs.
Duke extended its lead to 3-1 in the sixth on another RBI single, as Mooney drove in Trevor Johnson from third after leading off with an infield single and moving to second on a balk and third on a groundout.
The Pack surged back in the seventh with four runs on as many hits to take a 5-3 lead. After a single by J.T. Jarrett followed by a double by Dominic Pilolli and a walk from Payton Green loaded the bases, Jacob Cozart delivered with a two-RBI double to knot the game up at 3-3.
Brown drove in the go-ahead run to make it 4-3 with his third hit of the day, a single to center field to score Green, and then Cozart came home from third on a double play to tack on the insurance run.
Starting pitcher Logan Whitaker had a strong outing on the mound, matching his career long in innings pitched with 6.0 and his career high in strikeouts with eight en route to improving to 2-2 on the mound this year.
Chris Villaman relieved Whitaker in the seventh and tossed the final three innings to pick up his team-leading ninth save of the year. He allowed just one batter to reach base and tallied five strikeouts.
At the plate, Brown and Cozart led the Pack's offense with three hits apiece while five other players had a hit to combine for 11 on the day. It marked Cozart's third-straight multi-hit game and it was Brown's seventh multi-hit outing in nine games.
Additionally, Cozart led the squad with two runs batted in to mark his fourth consecutive multi-RBI performance.
NC State will meet with Duke for game two of the series Saturday with first pitch slated for 1 p.m. at Jack Coombs Field. The game will be broadcast on Regional Sports Networks (RSN) and there will be a radio broadcast on WKNC 88.1 and the Varsity Network App.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Whitaker, Logan (2-2)
L: Johnson,Marcus (1-7)
S: Villaman, Chris (9)
Batting:
2B: Brown, Devonte 1 ; Pilolli, Dominic 1 ; Cozart, Jacob 1
RBI: Brown, Devonte 1 ; Groover III, LuJames 1 ; Cozart, Jacob 2
Base Running:
RUNS: Brown, Devonte 1 ; Jarrett, J.T. 1 ; Pilolli, Dominic 1 ; Green, Payton 1 ; Cozart, Jacob 1
SB: Green, Payton 1
Batting:
2B: Mooney,Alex 1
RBI: Mooney,Alex 1 ; Schreck,RJ 1 ; Storm,Luke 1
SH: Hoyle,Wil 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Mooney,Alex 1 ; Schreck,RJ 1 ; Johnson,Trevor 1
SB: Storm,Luke 1
HBP: Storm,Luke 1
Game Leaders
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3
RBI
2
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4
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0
H
1
RBI
1
AB
4
R
0
H
1
RBI
0
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