Another thread to catch things up on Wake's (historic) baseball season.
Here's a story from last week about the Deacons getting to No. 1.
Here's a recap of the first two games at FSU, which wrapped up the ACC regular season title.
Pitching rotation for this weekend's final ACC series (which starts tomorrow night and ends Saturday) will be Rhett Lowder on Thursday, Josh Hartle on Friday and TBD on Saturday. The TBD is likely to be Seth Keener, though that could change if he's used in the first two games. Keener started and threw 5 hitless innings at FSU on Sunday before the Deacons lost in the late innings.
Keener is taking the spot of Sean Sullivan, who hasn't pitched since 5/6 against BC. Sullivan won't pitch this weekend and the plan is to use him out of the bullpen in the ACC tournament, and then he'll start a game in the regional in the following weekend.
Chase Walter suffered a season-ending injury last week. That obviously sucks; he's the third pitcher to be lost for the season (joining Teddy McGraw and Crawford Wade) and I know Tom Walter really enjoyed having his son pitching for the Deacons.
Pierce Bennett will be back in the lineup tomorrow night (he's only played once in the last five games).
This week's series against Virginia Tech will mostly be about two things: Seeing if Wake Forest can go unbeaten in ACC series this season and getting in rhythm (staying there, really) for the postseason.
As a programming note: I'll be there Thursday and Friday nights. As much as I'd like to cover Saturday's game, there's an all-star basketball event in Greensboro that I'll be able to get several stories out of (including hopefully on Juke Harris).
Here's a story from last week about the Deacons getting to No. 1.
Here's a recap of the first two games at FSU, which wrapped up the ACC regular season title.
Pitching rotation for this weekend's final ACC series (which starts tomorrow night and ends Saturday) will be Rhett Lowder on Thursday, Josh Hartle on Friday and TBD on Saturday. The TBD is likely to be Seth Keener, though that could change if he's used in the first two games. Keener started and threw 5 hitless innings at FSU on Sunday before the Deacons lost in the late innings.
Keener is taking the spot of Sean Sullivan, who hasn't pitched since 5/6 against BC. Sullivan won't pitch this weekend and the plan is to use him out of the bullpen in the ACC tournament, and then he'll start a game in the regional in the following weekend.
Chase Walter suffered a season-ending injury last week. That obviously sucks; he's the third pitcher to be lost for the season (joining Teddy McGraw and Crawford Wade) and I know Tom Walter really enjoyed having his son pitching for the Deacons.
Pierce Bennett will be back in the lineup tomorrow night (he's only played once in the last five games).
This week's series against Virginia Tech will mostly be about two things: Seeing if Wake Forest can go unbeaten in ACC series this season and getting in rhythm (staying there, really) for the postseason.
As a programming note: I'll be there Thursday and Friday nights. As much as I'd like to cover Saturday's game, there's an all-star basketball event in Greensboro that I'll be able to get several stories out of (including hopefully on Juke Harris).
