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Wolfpack Stumbles in Extra Innings to UNCW

April 30, 2024
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No. 20 NC State (25-17, 12-9 ACC) stumbles in its Tuesday-evening matchup against UNCW (29-16, 14-4 CAA), falling in 10 innings at Doak Field, 5-4.

Ryan Marohn started on the mound and allowed just one run on two hits and two walks while striking out seven Seahawks over five innings. After Shane Van Dam gave up three runs without recording an out, Jacob Dudan took over on the mound and fanned seven batters in four shutout innings. Derrick Smith (3-1, 6.38 ERA) entered the game in the 10th inning and got saddled with the loss after giving up the go-ahead run on two hits and one walk.

The Wolfpack struck early with a pair of runs in the bottom of the first inning. Eli Serrano, III drew a full-count walk to start the frame. Three batters later, Jacob Cozart launched his 13th home run of the season over the wall in right-center field to drive both he and Serrano home. Two innings later, Garrett Pennington drilled a solo shot to left-center, his 11th of the year, to make it a 3-0 lead.

Kevin Jones broke the shutout in the top of the fifth inning, driving Trevor Marsh with a base hit to left field. Cozart answered in the bottom half of the frame with his second home run of the evening, a solo shot off the video board in right field, to make it a 4-1 ballgame.

The Seahawks managed to tie the score in the top of the sixth inning. Marsh got the scoring started by drawing a bases-loaded walk to bring Aiden Evans home. Two batters later, Bryan Arendt hit a sacrifice fly to right field to plate Tanner Thach before John Newton took advantage of a wild pitch to score from third base, tying the game at four runs apiece.

The score would hold until the top of the 10th inning where UNCW would take the lead for good. Thach reached scoring position on a one-out double to left field. After moving to third on a groundout, the Seahawk first baseman scored on a double by Marsh.

The Wolfpack returns to conference play on Friday as NC State ventures to Tallahassee, Fla. for the first game of its three-game series versus No. 7 Florida State. First pitch from Dick Howser Stadium is set for 6 p.m.

Wolfpack Stumbles in Extra Innings to UNCW

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Alex Gee
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2-14 with runners on
0-6 with RISP
0-1 bases loaded.

Pennington and A Mak combined to go 2/9 while Serrano was doing a good job of at least drawing walks.

The bats have to show up. Have to. I've been beating that drum and will continue to.
I40Wolf
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And DH is a disaster right now.
Alex Gee
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I40Wolf said:

And DH is a disaster right now.


I'm going to pull numbers at some point tomorrow, but I know Sosa is 0 for last 37 since March 19th. He and Lanphere both have 30%+ K rates. Bechtel hit a home run on his first swing against Hawaii, nothing since. Need Soles back desperately.
metcalfmafia
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Yep. Injuries have officially put our back against the wall.
Nairo
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Christ almighty
Packfanme1
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Was at the game and it felt like we gave this one away. Tough loss for our guys, but they have battled back all year and will not stop now. Go Pack!
Jesus, Family, Wolfpack!
Nairo
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2-6 vs midweek with 5 straight losses.

***?
PKAwolfpacker
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Bunting Serano in the bottom of the 9th seemed pretty stupid to me but I'm no baseball expert.
wilmwolf
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I have no problem bunting with Serrano. It was executed perfectly and put the winning runner on second base with your three best hitters coming up. That's very solid strategy. You just need your three best hitters to be your three best hitters.
Just a guy on the sunshine squad.
The Gatekeeper.
Homer Dumbarse.
StateFan2001 will probably respond to this because he doesn't understand how ignore works.
Alex Gee
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wilmwolf said:

I have no problem bunting with Serrano. It was executed perfectly and put the winning runner on second base with your three best hitters coming up. That's very solid strategy. You just need your three best hitters to be your three best hitters.
Bingo. Pennington & A Mak were 2/9 in a game Serrano was getting on base consistently. Have to get better at driving guys in.
Wolfpack2007
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Soles Is very close right? Hopefully back for FSU?
Alex Gee
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I40Wolf said:

And DH is a disaster right now.
Sosa, Lanphere, and Bechtel in conference play:

10 hits, 4 RBI, 1 HR, 5 walks, & 30 strikeouts in 72 official at bats.

Soles got hurt on 3/29. Since that date (a month):

5 hits, 1 RBI, 0 HR, 2 walks, 18(!) strikeouts in 41 at bats.

We need Noah in that spot or back in RF with Heavner at DH. He was off to a slowish start but his OBP% is .391 and his K rate is the lowest on the team along with Chase.
Packfanme1
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Injuries have really hurt this team!
Jesus, Family, Wolfpack!
JCooke93
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Yes it has
JCooke93
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Yes very close but still not there yet
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