Davidson College
23-20
Wake Forest
28-20
'Cats Rally, Fall Short at Wake Forest
5/7/2019 8:02:00 PM | Baseball
WINSTON-SALEM — Davidson hit three home runs and rallied to within a run late Tuesday night at Wake Forest, but the Demon Deacons hit a few round-trippers themselves and held on for an 11-8 victory at Couch Ballpark.
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Trevor Candelaria, Eric Jones and Alex Mardiney added to their individual home run counts and helped Davidson, which has an Atlantic 10-best 55 homers, challenge an Atlantic Coast Conference foe as well.
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Trailing 9-2 after seven innings, the Wildcats (23-20) scored six runs in the eighth. Jones led off the inning with his seventh homer of the season, and Alex Mardiney followed that right-center shot with his sixth on a dart down the right field line.
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Zach Nussbaum and Ruben Fontes then drove in a run each on a single and double, respectively. Nussbaum later scored when Max Bazin reached on an error, and Fontes came around on a Candelaria sacrifice fly to left, cutting it to 9-8.
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Candelaria's solo shot to left in the seventh was the fourth home run of his freshman season and cut the Deacons' lead to 7-2.
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Wake (28-20) took a 1-0 lead in the first inning on an RBI-double by Bobby Seymour.
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Davidson tied it at 1-1 in the fourth after Brett Centracchio singled and came around to score, sliding just in front of a tag, on Lebek's double to right center.
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Wake pulled ahead 7-1 after hitting three home runs in a six-run fifth, highlighted by a three-run shot by Seymour. Shane Muntz and Bruce Steel followed with solo home runs to left.
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Matt Frey led off the game with a first-pitch single to right and reached base for the 38th straight game.
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Starter Josh Hudson (4-2) threw five innings in the loss.
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Up Next
Exams are next for Davidson. The Wildcats are idle until May 16 when they return to Atlantic 10 play with a doubleheader at St. Bonaventure.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Ryan Cusick (6-3)
L: Hudson, Josh (4-2)
S: William Fleming (8)
Batting:
2B: Lebek, Justin 1 ; Fontes, Ruben 1
HR: Jones, Eric 1 ; Mardiney, Alex 1 ; Candelaria, Trevor 1
RBI: Jones, Eric 1 ; Mardiney, Alex 1 ; Lebek, Justin 1 ; Nussbaum, Zach 1 ; Fontes, Ruben 1 ; Bazin, Max 1 ; Candelaria, Trevor 2
SF: Candelaria, Trevor 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Jones, Eric 1 ; Mardiney, Alex 1 ; Centracchio, Brett 2 ; Lebek, Justin 1 ; Nussbaum, Zach 1 ; Fontes, Ruben 1 ; Candelaria, Trevor 1
SB: Centracchio, Brett 1
HBP: Lebek, Justin 1
PO: Bazin, Max 1
Batting:
2B: Bobby Seymour 1
HR: Bobby Seymour 1 ; Shane Muntz 1 ; Bruce Steel 2
RBI: Bobby Seymour 5 ; Shane Muntz 1 ; Bruce Steel 3
Base Running:
RUNS: DJ Poteet 2 ; Patrick Frick 3 ; Chris Lanzilli 1 ; Bobby Seymour 2 ; Shane Muntz 1 ; Bruce Steel 2
HBP: Patrick Frick 1
