No. 25 NC State Baseball Begins Homestand With ECU Tuesday

Tuesday, April 22

Raleigh, NC

6 p.m.

NC State

East Carolina

No. 25 NC State Baseball Begins Homestand With ECU Tuesday

4/21/2025 3:27:00 PM | Baseball

Game Notes

RALEIGH, NC – After a sweep out west of California, No. 25 NC State Baseball will return to the Doak to begin a five-game homestand on Tuesday, April 22, at 6 p.m. when the Wolfpack takes on East Carolina for the second time this season. The game will be broadcast on ACCNX and heard on WKNC 88.1 FM and the Varsity Network app.

The first meeting with the Pirates saw NC State travel to Greenville on April 8^th and defeat the Pirates 4-1. As he did in California, Anderson Nance came on in relief and pitched five innings of no-run baseball against the Pirates, allowing just one hit with five strikeouts and no walks.

In a 6-6 game, Nance tossed five perfect innings in relief against California to help NC State win its fifth ACC series of the season and earn his team-leading sixth win of the season. Nance came on in the bottom of the fifth inning and retired all 15 batters he faced in order on just 62 pitches. Of those 15 retired, he struck out seven, including striking out six in a row across the seventh and eighth innings after the Wolfpack had taken a one-run lead in the top of the seventh. He drew 12 whiffs and threw 43/62 pitches for strikes. It was the fourth time Nance had come out of the pen this season and thrown at least five innings. Nance now holds a .295 ERA and is eighth in the ACC. He has allowed just one hit with no walks and 12 strikeouts in his last 10 innings pitched.

NC State will go for its first season sweep of the Pirates since 2022; the Wolfpack is 24-9 over ECU at the Doak since 1990.

Coming into Tuesday, NC State is on a four-game winning streak and is 18-6 at home this season. The sweep of Cal was the first ACC road sweep since 2021, when the Wolfpack swept No. 16 Pitt.

PROJECTED STARTING PITCHERS:
Tuesday: LHP Cooper Consiglio (NCSU) vs. RHP Jackson DiLorenzo (ECU)

This will be Consiglio's sixth start of the season. His previous start came against ECU, where he went two innings, allowing just one run on one hit.

NC State finished 8-9 against in-state opponents in 2024, including a season sweep against Wake Forest to end the regular season. NC State is 6-2 against in-state opponents in 2025. Since taking over the NC State baseball program in 1997, head coach Elliott Avent has led the Pack to a 367-189 (.659) against in-state foes.

NC State Baseball is back in the D1 Baseball Top 25 for the first time since week two, coming in at 25 in this week's polls. They are one of six ACC programs ranked with a series win over No. 19 Louisville and are scheduled to play No. 2 Clemson this weekend and No. 8 North Carolina in May.

Since 2021, NC State's baseball team has consistently maintained a strong Rating Percentage Index (RPI), reflecting their competitive performance. Their year-end RPI rankings are as follows: 2021: 12^th, 2022: 33^rd, 2023: 23^rd, 2024: 12^th. These rankings place NC State among the top programs nationally. During this period, its average RPI ranking was within the top 10. Entering the week, NC State had an RPI of 33.

Freshman Ty Head continues to climb the ranks of most walks during a season in program history. With 43 entering Tuesday, Head is four walks away from cracking the top 10. Pratt Maynard holds the record for 64 in a season set in 2010. Jacob Cozart walked 52 times last season, which is the second most in program history.

First basemen Chris McHugh had a.692 average over three games against Cal. McHugh totaled nine hits with three in each game, giving him six three-hit games on the season and a team-high 16 multi-hit games. Of those nine hits, he recorded a double and a home run, totaling six RBIs,13 total bases, and a 1.000 SLG% with two walks. His sixth three-RBI game of the season came in game one against the Golden Bears, accounting for a third of the Wolfpack's nine runs. McHugh has 11 games this season with multiple RBIs to lead NC State.

McHugh is hitting .368 on the season and remains in the top 10 of the ACC in average, hits, and runs batted in. With his seventh home run of the season over the weekend, McHugh has already surpassed his season total from last season at VCU.