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TALLAHASSEE, Florida – Hosting the No. 1 ranked team for the first time in five years, Florida State could not cross the plate in Wake Forest’s 10-0 win Friday night at Dick Howser Stadium. Delayed an hour due to lightning, the game was played in a light drizzle for much of the night.
Wake Forest starter Rhett Lowder improved to 11-0 with seven shutout innings. FSU managed just four hits against the projected first round pick, lowering his season ERA to 1.52.
The Demon Deacons scored two runs in the second inning against Jackson Baumeister before a three-run home run in the fourth inning. Brennen Oxford pitched 2.2 innings against his former team, allowing just one run on one hit. He has allowed only three hits and a run over his last six appearances, spanning 9.2 innings.
Wake Forest tacked on four runs in the eighth inning for the run-rule victory.
SCORING SUMMARY:
T2 | WF 1, FSU 0 Bennett sacrifice fly, Wilken scored
T2 | WF
TALLAHASSEE, Florida – No. 1 Wake Forest clinched its weekend series against Florida State with a back-and-forth 7-3 victory at Dick Howser Stadium Saturday afternoon. Conner Whittaker extended his scoreless inning streak to 14.0 before the Demon Deacons managed to score all seven runs over the final three innings.
Neither team scored over the first five innings, which took just one hour to complete. The Seminoles took a 1-0 lead in the sixth when Jaime Ferrer tripled and scored on Cam Smith’s single.
The Demon Deacons tied it on a solo home run in the seventh inning by Justin Johnson, his 13th of the year. The Noles countered in the bottom of the inning when Colton Vincent reached on an error, Jordan Carrion walked and DeAmez Ross gave FSU a 2-1 lead with a two-out single. Ross’s hit extended his hitting streak to 12 games, the longest for an FSU freshman since 2013.
Wake Forest took its first lead with a two-run home run in the eighth inning on Whittaker’s final pitc