Baseball Drops Series Finale To Wake Forest

Sunday, May 15

Chapel Hill

1 p.m.

North Carolina

31-19, 12-15

Wake Forest

35-16-1, 12-14-1

Wake Forest

North Carolina

Photo by: HELEN MCGINNIS

May 15, 2022 | Baseball

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By: Jody Jones

CHAPEL HILL – The Diamond Heels were unable to complete the three-game sweep of Wake Forest on Sunday afternoon as the Demon Deacons took the series finale 11-2 at Boshamer Stadium, snapping Carolina's five-game winning streak.

Wake Forest (35-16-1, 12-14-1 ACC) scored 10 runs across the first three innings, highlighted by a grand slam from Jake Reinisch in the third inning.

Brendan Tinsman and Nick Kurtz got the Deacons on the scoreboard with back-to-back home runs in the first inning.

Reinisch and Kurtz collected three hits apiece in the Deacons' 17-hit attack.

"Wake Forest is one of the best offensive teams in our league and that showed today," UNC Head Coach Scott Forbes said. "You make mistakes against a good offensive team that's what happens.

"You hate to lose, but a loss is a loss is the way I look at it. You flush it, you move on and get ready for a great week."

UNC (31-19, 12-15) scored both of its runs off solo home runs; Angel Zarate to lead off the first and Alberto Osuna in the eighth. Zarate and Danny Serretti led the Diamond Heels with two hits apiece.

NOTABLES
• Danny Serretti extended his career-long hitting streak to 24 games with a single in the bottom of the first inning.
• Zarate hit his third leadoff home run of the season.
• Shawn Rapp made his NCAA leading 36^th pitching appearance of the season.

UP NEXT
The Diamond Heels face UNCW in Wilmington on Tuesday, May 17, before returning home to wrap up the regular season against Florida State beginning, Thursday, May 19, at Boshamer Stadium.