After starting the season as high as sixth-ranked in one poll, N.C. State fell to 6-6 with a 9-8 loss to Western Carolina this afternoon at the Doak at Dail. I’m not really feeling the journalistic game recap, so here, instead, are some random stream of consciousness observations from the game.
State won the earned run battle, 8-5, so…yay? Had Joe Dunand brought his glove, it’s a different game. His pair of miscues led to four unearned runs. That’s about the only negative in the game, really. The Catamounts can swing the bats, and holding them to five runs would’ve been a pretty solid pitching effort in what was the Pack’s fourth game in four days.