No. 13 NC State Takes on UNCW for First of Two Meetings

RALEIGH, NC – After sweeping No. 2 Clemson at home, No. 13 NC State Baseball will play its last mid-week home game of the season against UNCW on Tuesday, April 29th, at 6 p.m. The game will be broadcast on ACCNX and heard on WKNC 88.1 and the Varsity Network app.

This is the first game in the home-and-home series against the Seahawks this season, with the second game being on May 6th in Wilmington. NC State holds a 77-22 record all-time against the Seahawks but will look to end a two-game losing streak after dropping both contests last season. The first meeting came in 1971, and NC State won 3-1. At the Doak, NC State is 30-6, dating back to 1990.

Coming into Tuesday, NC State is on a seven-game winning streak and is 21-6 at home this season. The sweep of Clemson was the first sweep against the Tigers since 2018. The 21st win at home also makes it the 24th time since head coach Elliott Avent's first year as head coach in 1997 that the Wolfpack has won 20 or more games at the Doak.

PROJECTED STARTING PITCHERS:
Tuesday: LHP Cooper Consiglio (NCSU) vs. RHP Bromley Thorton (UNCW)

This will be Consiglio's sixth start of this 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, Avent has led the Pack to a 367-189 (.659) against in-state foes.

The Wolfpack climbed 12 spots in the D1 Baseball rankings and are ranked 13^th. They are one of five ACC programs ranked with a series win over No. 3 Clemson and are scheduled to play No. 4 North Carolina in May. NC State is now ranked in four of the five national polls released Monday, including Perfect Game (17), USA Today Coaches Poll (17) and Baseball America (18).

ACC Player of the Week Brayden Fraasman hit .692 in three games, going 9-13 over the weekend. Clemson hadn't lost an opening game of a series all season until Fraasman went 5-5 with two home runs and seven RBIs. He joins Ryan Marohn as the second Wolfpack player to earn ACC weekly honors after Ryan Marohn won ACC Pitcher of the Week in week five.

Six pitchers pitched across the three games against the Tigers. In game one, Freshman Anderson Nance (7-1) came on in relief and went four innings, allowing no runs with just four hits while striking out seven on his way to his team-leading seventh win of the season. Over his last three outings, Nance has gone 14 innings, allowing just five hits, no runs, no walks, and 19 strikeouts.

In game two, Heath Andrews went six innings, giving up six hits, two earned runs, and a career-high nine strikeouts on 97 pitches, the most he's thrown in a game.

In game three, Ryan Marohn went eight innings, holding a Tigers offense to just one run on five hits, two walks, and five strikeouts for his sixth win of the season. It was the first time since last year that Clemson was held to one run or less, dating back to the series against NC State last season, when the Pack shut out Clemson. Clemson had not been swept this season before coming to Raleigh.

For Marohn, it marked the second time he has gone at least eight innings this season, as he leads the ACC in innings pitched following Saturday's contest. Following the Tigers home run in the first inning, Marohn retired eight of the next nine batters. Clemson was 0-10 with runners on and 0-5 with runners in scoring position.

NC State now sits first in the ACC standings, a game and a half ahead of Florida State. If the season ended today, the Wolfpack would be the No. 1 Seed in the ACC tournament and secure a double bye.

No. 13 NC State Takes on UNCW for First of Two Meetings

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Players Mentioned

Heath Andrews

Cooper Consiglio

Brayden Fraasman

Ryan Marohn

Anderson Nance