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
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