Baseball Recap: Wake Forest Cougars vs. Wakefield Wolverines
Wake Forest entered their tilt with Wakefield with nine consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with ten. They came out on top in a nail-biter against the Wakefield Wolverines on Monday and snuck past 4-2. That result was just more of the same for these two, as Wake Forest also won the last time the pair played back in May of 2023.
Jackson Hardy spent all seven innings on the mound, and it's clear why: he surrendered only one earned (and one unearned) run on four hits. Those seven innings set a new season-high mark for him.
On the hitting side, the team relied heavily on Ethan Brittain, who scored a run while going 3-for-4. The team also got some help courtesy of Luke Taibi, who went 1-for-2 with a stolen base and two RBI.
On Wakefield's side, they saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Ben Dudash, who went 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI.
Wake Forest pushed their record up to 12-2 with that victory, which was their fourth straight on the road. Those victories were due in large part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 9.0 runs per game. As for Wakefield, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 10-3.
Wake Forest will have a chance to go back-to-back against Wakefield: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday.
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