Tip of the cap to Rhett Lowder tonight. The Wake Forest starting pitcher was fantastic on the evening, eventually lowering his already ACC leading conference ERA in a complete game effort to top NC State.
The Wolfpack had the right approach in attacking Lowder early in at-bats, but Lowder was (for the most part) able to induce weak contact which permitted the gameplan to backfire on the Pack and keep Lowder’s pitch count down. The low number of pitches allowed him to throw his first career complete game on just 89 pitches.
State had their moments, like a 4th inning Gino Groover home run and an 8th inning Tommy White homer, but those were both solo shots as the Pack struggled to get men on base all evening.