The No. 13 NC State baseball team dropped its midweek contest 18-3 against UNCG on Tuesday night at Doak Field at Dail Park.
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 NEXTNC 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.
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