Eagles Can’t Notch Win vs. Wake

Saturday, April 14

Brighton, Mass.

3 PM

Boston College

12-22, 5-13

Wake Forest

17-20, 10-8

Wake Forest

Boston College

Photo by: John Quackenbos

April 14, 2018 | Baseball

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Rapp struck out six over six-inning start

By: Athletic Communications

BRIGHTON, Mass. – The Boston College baseball team dropped the series finale, 6-1, to Wake Forest on Saturday in front of the largest crowd to date at the Harrington Athletics Village at Brighton Fields. The Eagles (12-22, 5-13 ACC) scored their only run of the weekend against the Demon Deacons (17-20, 10-8 ACC).

Before the start of the game, Boston College formally opened Harrington Athletics Village with a dedication and naming ceremony for John L. Harrington '57, MBA'66. The events began with a FanFest and alumni tailgate, followed by a dedication ceremony featuring Harrington, BC President William P. Leahy, SJ, Yawkey Foundations President James P. Healey '75, and Martin Jarmond, the William V. Campbell Director of Athletics at BC. Harrington threw out ceremonial first pitches at the baseball and softball games as well.

Junior Jake Alu, along with sophomores Dante Baldelli and Jack Cunningham, tallied the BC hits on the day. Galland stayed perfect on the base path with another stolen base as he is now 25-for-25. Cunningham logged BC's only RBI on the weekend.

Senior RHP Brian Rapp allowed just four hits and one earned run in his six-inning start. He walked two and struck out six.

GAME INFORMATION
Score: Wake Forest 6, Boston College 1
Records: Wake Forest (17-20, 10-8 ACC) at Boston College (12-22, 5-13 ACC)
Location: Harrington Athletics Village at the Brighton Fields in Brighton, Mass.
Series: Wake wins the series, 3-0

BC HIGHLIGHTS

Senior RHP Brian Rapp allowed just four hits, two runs – one earned – and two walks in his six-inning start. He struck out six. In his last two starts – 12.2 innings – the righty has struck out 14.
Freshman Chris Galland stole his ACC-leading 25^th stolen base and is a perfect 25-for-25 on the season, third in BC record books. He walked, scored the only BC run on the weekend and recorded his third outfield assist.
Junior RHP Thomas Lane made relief appearances in all three games of the series. He has inherited 25 runners on the season and just two have scored – one on a base-loaded wild pitch in the first game against Wake and one a sacrifice fly in the seventh.
Sophomore Jack Cunningham was 1-for-2 with a walk and the Eagles' only RBI on the weekend.
Junior Jake Alu has reached base in the last 11 games.
Sophomore Brian Dempsey drew a walk in the eighth. He has reached base in 30 of the Eagles' 34 games this season.

KEY PLAYS

The Eagles cut the lead to one in the sixth but the Demon Deacons answered with a run in the seventh. They broke the game open in the eighth with three runs off Lane in the eighth, as BC used three different pitchers in the inning.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Wake Forest's Chris Lanzilli hit a two-out double down the left-field line to plate the first run of the game in the second.
The Demon Deacons added a run in the fifth as Logan Harvey singled, moved up on a sac bunt, to third on a balk and scored on a safety squeeze by Patrick Frick.
The Eagles scored their first run of the series in the sixth. Galland drew a lead-off walk and stole second. Cunningham drove one to right to plate Galland and moved up 90 feet as right fielder Michael Ludowig misplayed the ball. A grounder advanced him to third and Baldelli drew a walk to put runners on the corners, but a fly ball ended the BC threat.
Wake answered back in the seventh with redshirt freshman LHP Joey Walsh on the mound. Lanzilli led off with a single through the left side and Harvey drew a four-pitch walk. A sac bunt moved the runners into scoring position and with Lane on the hill, Frick hit a fly ball to center, allowing Lanzill to tag up. After a walk, Lane got a foul fly out to end the inning.
The Deacs added three more in the eighth. With one out, Shane Muntz doubled down the left-field line and moved to third on a bunt single by Ludowig. Lanzilli plated him with a single to left. Harvey knocked one to left and Galland couldn't come up with the diving catch but got the out at third. Junior RHP Sean Hughes came in and walked two in a row, allowing in Wake's fifth run of the game. Classmate LHP Zach Stromberg allowed a bases-loaded walk to make it 6-1 before striking out Johnny Aiello to end the inning.

INSIDE THE BOXSCORE

Wake leads the series 22-17 and has won the last three games. The Deacs earned series victories eight times and have swept the Eagles three times, the last in 2013 in Winston-Salem.
This marked the second time the Eagles were swept in 2018. They were swept by No. 12 Clemson in South Carolina March 29-31.
Senior Jake Palomaki failed to reach base for the just fourth time this season.
Galland's career-long, eight-game hit streak came to an end. He has reached base in the last nine games.
The nine hits and one run as the fewest the Eagles have recorded in an ACC series in 2018.

NEXT UP
The Eagles host Rhode Island on Tuesday, April 17 at 5:30 p.m. at the Harrington Athletics Village at Brighton Fields.