NC State Wins Game One 10-3; Game Two 5-1
DURHAM, N.C. The NC State baseball team swept Duke in a pair of fall games at Durham Bulls Athletic Park. The Wolfpack recorded a 10-3 win in game one before completing the Friday night sweep with a 5-1 victory in game two.
Game One | NC State 10, Duke 3 (Nine Innings)After Duke's Tyler Albright smacked a solo shot in the bottom of the second, NC State responded with four runs in the top of the third to take a 4-1 lead. The Wolfpack opened the top of the third with walks from Luke Nixon and
Noah Soles before Josh Hogue slugged a ground-rule double to center field to tie the score at 1-1.
With two outs in the third, Garrett Pennington crushed a three-run homer to center to put NC State ahead 4-1. Pennington's homer plated Soles and Hogue to give NC State a lead it never relinquished.
Duke trimmed NC State's lead to 4-2 in the bottom of the third before Pennington helped spark another four-run sixth frame for the Wolfpack. Pennington opened the inning with a double before later coming home on an Alec Makarewicz sacrifice fly. A wild pitch and a fielding error from the Blue Devils helped extend the Pack's advantage to 8-2.
Makarewicz knocked in another run in the seventh inning with a two-out RBI single, extending NC State's lead to 9-2. Brandon Butterworth tacked on the Wolfpack's 10th and final run of game one with a sacrifice fly in the eighth.
The Wolfpack pitching staff of Shane Van Dam, Ryan Marohn,
Derrick Smith, Cooper Consiglio, Jake Bechtel, Camden Wimbish and Hollis Fanning limited the Duke offense to just three runs on four hits, combining to strike out 11 batters.
Game Two | NC State 5, Duke 1 (Seven Innings)Garrett Pennington and Alec Makarewicz carried their game one production over to game two, putting NC State ahead 4-0 in the top of the first with a pair of two-RBI doubles. Pennington lined a double off the Blue Monster in left-center, plating
Matt Heavner and Alex Sosa to make it 2-0 Wolfpack.
Makarewicz then doubled to center field to double the Pack's lead to 4-0. Pennington and
Drew Lanphere scored on Makarewicz's extra-base hit as the Wolfpack drew three walks in the first inning.
Sam Yelton's solo home run trimmed NC State's lead to 4-1 in the second inning.
With Duke threatening in the bottom of the fifth, NC State turned the night's first double play with a 4-6-3 ground-ball double play involving
Carson Falsken, Peyton Young and Brandon Crabtree. Jacob Dudan then struck out Noah Murray looking to strand a runner at third and end the inning.
Robert Nedry opened the seventh inning with an opposite-field double off the Blue Monster, advancing to third base on
Matt Heavner's single to right field. Josh Hogue extended NC State's lead to its final margin at 5-1 with a sacrifice fly to left field.
Jacob Halford finished the game with a three-up, three-down frame to complete the Pack's sweep of the Blue Devils.
Jaxon Lucas, Chance Mako,
Win Scott and
P.J. Labriola also pitched in game two on Friday night as the Wolfpack pitching staff limited Duke to just four total runs over 16 combined innings.
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