Maine And McLean One-Hit Wake Forest In 13-1 Win
May 12, 2006
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (www.hurricanesports.com) – Scott Maine gave up a hit on the first pitch of the game and then dominated Wake Forest with a career-high 11 strikeouts in seven innings in the Hurricanes’ 13-1 win Friday night at Mark Light Field. The win was the 1,100th Division I win for head coach Jim Morris and the sixth in a row for the No. 20 Hurricanes, who improved to 33-16 overall and 15-10 in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Maine’s first pitch of the game was belted for a double by Matt Antonelli in a one-run first inning. He recovered to hold the Demon Deacons hitless over the next seven innings and record the most strikeouts by a Hurricane pitcher since at least 1999. Maine improved to 9-2 on the season and walked three in the outing. Jon McLean pitched the final two innings to complete Miami’s second one-hitter of the season.
Jemile Weeks, Jon Jay, Danny Valencia and Richard O’Brien Jr. all pounded-out two hits for Miami and Tommy Giles and Blake Tekotte both drove in three runs.
Brad Kledzik (5-3) gave up five earned runs on nine hits in six innings in the loss for the Demon Deacons, who dropped to 32-16 overall and 15-9 in the ACC’s Atlantic Division.
The Demon Deacons grabbed an early lead off Antonelli’s leadoff double. Dustin Hood’s sac bunt moved Antonelli to third before Allan Dykstra’s sac fly brought him home for Wake’s only run of the game.
Weeks singled to leadoff the Miami first and moved to third on Jay’s single to left. Valencia’s sac fly to center tied the game at 1-1. The inning ended when Jay was thrown out at home attempting to score on a throwing error on Alonso’s two-out grounder to second.
The Hurricanes took a 2-1 lead in the second thanks to some stingy play at the plate and a Wake Forest error. Eddy Rodriguez singled to lead off the inning and moved to second with two outs on Roger Tomas’ grounder. Dennis Raben followed by fouling off five pitches with two strikes against him. His persistence paid off when Antonelli dropped a towering fly ball at third, prolonging the inning and allowing Rodriguez to score.
Giles led off the Hurricane third with a walk and moved to second on Jay’s bunt single. Valencia advanced both runners with a sac bunt. Alonso followed with an RBI single to right to give UM a 3-1 lead.
UM busted the game open with a three-run fourth. Tomas hit a leadoff single up the middle and Weeks walked to setup Giles’ two-run triple. Valencia put the Hurricanes up 6-1 with a two-out RBI single to left that scored Giles.
Miami added four runs to its lead in the seventh. O’Brien hit a bases-loaded single, followed by Tomas’ sac fly, a RBI double by Tekotte and a bases-loaded walk to Giles.
Tomas hit his second sac fly of the game in the eighth and Tekotte hit a two-run triple to complete the scoring at 13-1.
The Hurricanes and Demon Deacons meet again on Saturday at 7 p.m. UM seniors Andrew Lane, Marcelo Albir, McLean and Giles will be honored as part of Senior Night.
