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Photo by: Olivia Dail
Key Fourth Inning Leads Wolfpack to 7-4 Win Over The Citadel
4/28/2023 11:10:00 PM | Baseball
RALEIGH - The NC State baseball team (27-14) opened its three-game weekend series on Friday night with a 7-4 win over The Citadel (19-20) on Military Appreciation Day.
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The Wolfpack used a four-run fourth inning to rally from an early 2-1 deficit, highlighted by a two-run, go-ahead double from Kalae Harrison that put NC State ahead 3-2. The Wolfpack never trailed following Harrison's two-RBI double on a 0-0 count.
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Justin Lawson earned the win for the Wolfpack on the mound, improving to 4-0 on the season while tying a career-high with 4.2 innings pitched. Lawson recorded six strikeouts after entering the game in the fifth inning for NC State.
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The Pack struck first in the opening inning with a solo home run from Jacob Cozart, giving NC State an early 1-0 edge. After a 69-minute lightning delay halted play, the Bulldogs got on the board in the top of the fourth inning. The Citadel knotted the score at 1-1 after a leadoff home run from Noah Mitchell and later moved ahead 2-1 on an RBI groundout.
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After the Wolfpack tallied four runs in the home half of the fourth, Lawson took over the duties on the mound for NC State in the top of the fifth with starting pitcher Logan Whitaker's day complete having struck out four Bulldog batters over four innings of work.
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The Pack scored a pair of runs in the sixth inning, moving ahead 6-2 on a full-count hit-by-pitch drawn by Cannon Peebles. Eli Serrano III later scored on a balk from The Citadel's Fisher Paulson to stretch the Pack's lead to 7-2.
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The Bulldogs added two runs in the top of the ninth to trim its deficit to 7-4. Dominic Fritton entered the game out of the bullpen for the second time in his Wolfpack career, recording his first-career save when he struck out Matthew Lively swinging on a 3-2 pitch.
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UP NEXT
NC State and The Citadel will be back in action on Saturdayfor the second game of the weekend series. First pitch is slated for 4 p.m. and will be streamed on ACC Network Extra alongside a radio broadcast on WKNC 88.1 in Raleigh and nationally on the Varsity Network app.
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The Wolfpack used a four-run fourth inning to rally from an early 2-1 deficit, highlighted by a two-run, go-ahead double from Kalae Harrison that put NC State ahead 3-2. The Wolfpack never trailed following Harrison's two-RBI double on a 0-0 count.
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Justin Lawson earned the win for the Wolfpack on the mound, improving to 4-0 on the season while tying a career-high with 4.2 innings pitched. Lawson recorded six strikeouts after entering the game in the fifth inning for NC State.
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The Pack struck first in the opening inning with a solo home run from Jacob Cozart, giving NC State an early 1-0 edge. After a 69-minute lightning delay halted play, the Bulldogs got on the board in the top of the fourth inning. The Citadel knotted the score at 1-1 after a leadoff home run from Noah Mitchell and later moved ahead 2-1 on an RBI groundout.
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After the Wolfpack tallied four runs in the home half of the fourth, Lawson took over the duties on the mound for NC State in the top of the fifth with starting pitcher Logan Whitaker's day complete having struck out four Bulldog batters over four innings of work.
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The Pack scored a pair of runs in the sixth inning, moving ahead 6-2 on a full-count hit-by-pitch drawn by Cannon Peebles. Eli Serrano III later scored on a balk from The Citadel's Fisher Paulson to stretch the Pack's lead to 7-2.
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The Bulldogs added two runs in the top of the ninth to trim its deficit to 7-4. Dominic Fritton entered the game out of the bullpen for the second time in his Wolfpack career, recording his first-career save when he struck out Matthew Lively swinging on a 3-2 pitch.
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UP NEXT
NC State and The Citadel will be back in action on Saturdayfor the second game of the weekend series. First pitch is slated for 4 p.m. and will be streamed on ACC Network Extra alongside a radio broadcast on WKNC 88.1 in Raleigh and nationally on the Varsity Network app.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Lawson, Justin (4-0)
L: Gant Starling (1-2)
S: Fritton, Dominic (1)
Batting:
2B: Travis Elliott 1
HR: Noah Mitchell 1
RBI: Noah Mitchell 2 ; Luke Montenery 1
SH: Luke Montenery 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Sawyer Reeves 1 ; Crosby Jones 1 ; Noah Mitchell 1 ; Travis Elliott 1
HBP: Travis Lott 1
Batting:
2B: Candelaria, Trevor 1 ; Green, Payton 1 ; Harrison, Kalae 1
HR: Cozart, Jacob 1
RBI: Cozart, Jacob 2 ; Marcy, Will 1 ; Peebles, Cannon 1 ; Harrison, Kalae 2
SH: Serrano III, Eli 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Cozart, Jacob 1 ; Candelaria, Trevor 1 ; Serrano III, Eli 2 ; Green, Payton 1 ; Peebles, Cannon 1 ; Harrison, Kalae 1
SB: Green, Payton 1
HBP: Green, Payton 1 ; Peebles, Cannon 1
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