NC State
12-3
UNCG
9-7
Wolfpack Drops Midweek Matchup to UNCG on Tuesday
3/12/2024 9:45:00 PM | Baseball
The Spartans (9-7) snapped NC State's nine-game winning streak and ended their five-game losing streak against the Wolfpack. UNCG scored nine of its 18 runs behind a six-run second inning and a three-run third frame to build an early 9-0 lead it never relinquished.
NC State (12-3) trimmed its deficit to 9-3 with three runs in the bottom of the fifth. The Wolfpack loaded the bases with one out in the fifth before Garrett Pennington recorded an RBI groundout to make it 9-1. Alec Makarewicz, who entered Tuesday's game as the nation's leader in RBI per game, smacked his eighth double of the season for a pair of RBI to trim the Pack's deficit to 9-3.
Aidan Brewer's three-run homer made it 4-0 in the top of the second before a wild pitch and an RBI single from GC Jarman extended the Spartans' lead to 6-0. A solo homer off the left-field foul pole from Caleb Cozart made it 7-0 in the third before an RBI double from Brewer and an RBI single from Walsh stretched the lead to 9-0.
UNCG scored nine runs in the ninth to push the score to its final margin at 18-3.
Makarewicz paced NC State with two RBI and two hits. Noah Soles also recorded a two-hit performance with a run scored.
Cooper Consiglio (1-2) suffered the loss for the Wolfpack, while Brandon Hudson (1-0) earned the win after tossing 1.1 scoreless frames in relief of UNCG starter Julien Peissel.
UP NEXT
NC State opens its road ACC slate with a weekend series at Georgia Tech. The Wolfpack's three-game set in Atlanta will start on Friday at 6 p.m. at Russ Chandler Stadium. All three games will be broadcasted on ACC Network Extra.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Brandon Hudson (1-0)
L: Consiglio, Cooper (1-2)
Batting:
2B: Jake Ogden 1 ; Trey Truitt 1 ; Aidan Brewer 1
HR: Caleb Cozart 2 ; Aidan Brewer 1
RBI: Jeremy Wolf 1 ; GC Jarman 2 ; Caleb Cozart 5 ; Trey Truitt 1 ; Aidan Brewer 4 ; Zachary Walsh 2
SH: Mitchell Smith 1 ; Jacob Dilley 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Jeremy Wolf 1 ; GC Jarman 1 ; Jake Ogden 2 ; Caleb Cozart 4 ; Trey Truitt 3 ; Mitchell Smith 1 ; Aidan Brewer 3 ; Jacob Dilley 1 ; Zachary Walsh 2
SB: Zachary Walsh 2
CS: GC Jarman 2 ; Zachary Walsh 1
HBP: GC Jarman 1 ; Caleb Cozart 1 ; Jacob Dilley 1 ; Zachary Walsh 1
PO: Zachary Walsh 1
Batting:
2B: Makarewicz, Alec 1
RBI: Pennington, Garrett 1 ; Makarewicz, Alec 2
Base Running:
RUNS: Soles, Noah 1 ; Butterworth, Brandon 1 ; Falsken, Carson 1
SB: Butterworth, Brandon 1
