Baseball Recap: Wakefield Wins Going Away Against East Wake Academy

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Wakefield). They blew past the East Wake Academy Eagles 7-1 on Tuesday. The victory continues a trend for the Wolverines in their matchups with the Eagles: they've now won three in a row.

Tyler Rotellini

Batters Struck Out (Career)

03/04/25 vs East Wake Academy	8
03/01/24 vs Falls Lake	6
02/25/25 @ Broughton	5
03/29/24 vs Buckeye Valley	4
03/08/24 vs Leesville Road	4

Tyler Rotellini tossed a big game, striking out eight batters over five innings while giving up just one earned run off two hits. The dominant performance gave him a new career-high in strikeouts.

On the hitting side, Wakefield's win was truly a team effort as seven different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was Ben Dudash, who scored a run while going 2-for-3. What's more, Dudash posted two RBI, the most he's had since back in April of 2024. Evan Genao also deserves some recognition as he launched his first home run of the season.

Wakefield's record is now 3-1. As for East Wake Academy, their loss was their first of the season and also makes their record 3-1.

Looking ahead, Wakefield will square off against Sanderson at 4:00 p.m. on Friday. Wakefield's pitching crew has only allowed 3.8 runs per game this season, so Sanderson's hitters will have their work cut out for them. East Wake Academy will get a bit of extra time to process the defeat as their next game is a ways off. They'll take on Heritage at 7:00 p.m. on March 14th.