Boston College Baseball: Eagles Salvage Series With Sunday Win

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BRIGHTON, Mass. – The Boston College baseball team salvaged its weekend series against Wake Forest with a 7-6 win at the Harrington Athletics Village on Sunday afternoon. The Eagles snapped a 10-game losing streak in the ACC to improve to 12-16 overall and 2-10 in the league, while the Demon Deacons dropped to 21-7 and 6-6.

Junior catcher Parker Landwehr (Baltimore, Md.) hit a leadoff home run to left in the bottom of the seventh that stood as the game-winner. Graduate right-hander Brendan Coffey (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) then came on for two-shutout innings and earned his second save of the season.

Boston College fought from behind after Wake Forest put three runs on the board in the first and two in the second, but the Eagles were able to answer with single runs in the bottom half of each inning. BC cut the lead to one in the fourth on a two-run home run to right by junior center fielder Barry Walsh (Sterling, Mass.) and ultimately finished the frame with four runs and a 6-5 lead; capped by a Landwehr sacrifice-fly.

Wake left fielder Adam Cecere lined a leadoff double in the fifth and came in with the tying run on a two-out, 0-2 single through the left side by second baseman Danny Corona. The run came off freshman right-hander Julian Tonghini (New Canaan, Conn.), who steadied the effort on the mound for the Eagles with three innings of work behind a two-inning start by senior RHP Mason Pelio (San Diego, Calif.) with five runs, four earned, charged to his line.

Graduate righty Henry Leake (Burbank, Calif.) got the win for BC in two-scoreless innings of work. Leake (2-0) struck out four, including three in the seventh as he stranded two runners on base.

RHP Teddy McGraw went three innings with six runs against four hits and five walks with four strikeouts as the Demon Deacon starter. Fellow righty Eric Adler (0-1) got the loss in two innings of work as he gave up the seventh-inning homer to Landwehr.

DETAILS
Scores: Boston College 7, Wake Forest 6
Records: Boston College 12-16, 2-10; Wake Forest 21-7, 6-6
Stadium: Harrington Athletics Village
Attendance: 434

BC HIGHLIGHTS
· Trailing by three, BC scored four runs to take a 6-5 lead in the fourth, including a two-run home run by Walsh and a go-ahead sacrifice-fly by Landwehr.
· Landwehr gave the Eagles a lead in the seventh on a leadoff-home run to left.

GAME NOTES
·       BC is 5-11 when the opponent scores first and 5-8 when the opponent scores in the first inning.
·       Chaumette recorded his third multi-hit game of the season.
·       Landwehr hit his fourth home run of the season and fifth of his career.
·       Walsh stole his team-leading sixth base of the season.
·       Walsh hit his third home run of the season.

UP NEXT
Boston College hosts the semifinal of the Beanpot on Tuesday at 4 p.m. against Northeastern.