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April 27, 2003
Winston-Salem, N.C. – The Wake Forest baseball team lost 6-4 toVirginia on Sunday afternoon at Hooks Stadium to fall to 26-17 overall,8-12 in the ACC. It was the first series win in Winston-Salem for theCavaliers since 1993.
Virginia took a 1-0 lead in the first inning when Joe Koshansky doubleddown the left field line. Matt Dunn was running from first base on theplay but stumbled and fell coming around third base. The ball made itback to the infield while Dunn was on the ground about a third of theway toward home. The Deacons could have easily cut down the runner atthe plate but poor infield communication allowed Dunn to score without athrow.
The Deacons tied the game in the bottom of the first inning on a doublesteal. Ryan Hubbard and Jamie D’Antona were on the move when the throwfrom Virginia catcher Andrew Riesenfeld went into left field. Hubbardscored easily and D’Antona moved up to third. Ryan Johnson walked toput runners on the corners with one out but Wake Forest couldn’t pushacross the go-ahead run.
After the rocky first inning, Koshansky settled in. After a leadoffsingle in the first, Koshansky surrendered just one hit until theseventh inning. He got the win on the mound for 6 1/3 innings of work,allowing three runs, one earned on four hits with a pair of strikeoutsand four walks to improve to 7-0 on the year.
Virginia (26-17, 9-8 ACC) pulled ahead with two runs in the third on anRBI single from Mark Reynolds and a squeeze bunt by Ryan Zimmerman.
Tim Morley worked with runners on base and went six-plus innings. Heleft the game with the Deacons trailing 3-1. But Koshansky’s two-runhomer off reliever Adam Hanson and Eric Christensen’s RBI ground outgave the Cavaliers some breathing room at 6-1.
Morley suffered the loss to fall to 2-4. He allowed four runs on sixhits with three strikeouts and four walks.
The Deacons wouldn’t roll over, however, and had scoring opportunitiesin each of the game’s final three inning. In the seventh inning, DougRiepe’s one-out two-run pinch-hit double narrowed the margin to 6-3.But Riepe was stranded there.
In the eighth inning, Wake Forest loaded the bases and scored one on atwo-out infield single by Chris Getz. But Ryder Mathias grounded out tosecond base to end the inning.
In the ninth inning, Bourassa led off with a single but Ryan Hubbardstruck out looking, Jamie D’Antona popped out and Ryan Johnson groundedout to end the game.
Virginia’s Canon Hickman was credited with his fifth save for escapingtrouble in the eighth and ninth. He struck out two Deacons and allowedthree hits.
Wake Forest will play two non-conference road games this week, Tuesdayat UNC Greensboro and Wednesday at Charlotte, before taking a 10-daybreak for final exams. The Deacons will be idle for two straightweekends. Virginia plays at VCU on Tuesday night.