The season has officially come to an end for the Deacs. Wake Forest was eliminated on Sunday afternoon after falling to the hosting West Virginia Mountaineers by a score of 10-5. They finish the season with a 39-21 record.
This one was mostly just a combination of all the issues the Deacs had during the regular season: costly errors, wild pitches, and an inability to generate offense on anything other than home runs. Things started to go south in the 2nd inning, where a wild pitch from
starting pitcher Troy Dressler brough in the first run of the game, and then an error from RF Luke Costello allowed 2 more runs in the inning to give the Mountaineers a 3-0 lead.
Wake tied things up a couple of innings later on a 2-run homer by Matt Conte.
It was basically all WVU from there. The Mountaineers scored 7 unanswered run—6 in the 6th inning—to put this one out of reach. The Deacs got a couple of runs on an Andrew Costello home run in the 6th inning and a wild pitch that brough in Dalton Wentz in the 8th, but they ultimately just couldn’t generate enough offense to catch up. The Deacs finished the game with just 5 hits—3 outside of the 2 homeruns—to West Virginia’s 13. Wake also finished with 4 wild pitches, 4 walks, and allowed a run on a failed pick off attempt at 2nd base that sent the ball sailing into center field.
The Deacs simply did not hit the ball enough to cover up for the many mistakes they made in this one, and it’s hard to win doing that.
Football season is officially on the clock.
Go Deacs.
