East Carolina University
North Carolina State
Deja Vu: Late Rally Lifts Pack Over Pirates
April 18, 2006 | Baseball
April 18, 2006
N.C. State 4, ECU 3 (10 innings)
RALEIGH, N.C. - Brian Aargon scored the game winning run on a wild pitch in the bottom of the tenth to lift the N.C. State over East Carolina 4-3 Tuesday night at Doak Field in Raleigh, N.C.
Aargon, who pinch ran for Bobby Hubbard, advanced to second on Jonathan Diaz walk then third on Matt Camp's fielder's choice to set up the game winning run.
Sam Walls picked up his fifth win of the season for the Pack (31-10) after pitching two innings of scoreless relief while striking out three batters. Starter Jason Duncan lasted just four innings giving up three runs on five hits.
Kevin Rhodes suffered his first loss of the season in relief for ECU (25-14). Brody Taylor worked six innings allowing two runs on eight hits and striking out seven. Jason Neitz and T.J. Hose came out of the pen working three innings.
Diaz and Matt Camp each got two of the Pack's ten hits, while Camp and Aaron Bates each drove in a run.
Eldridge led six Pirate batters in hits going 3-for-4 with one walk and one run scored. Ryan Wood (13 games) and Jamie Ray (seven games) extended their hit streaks on the night.
ECU got on the board in the second inning when Jay Mattox doubled in Adam Witter from second for the games first run. Witter started the inning with a walk and was pushed over by Ryan Wood's sacrifice bunt leading up to Mattox's at-bat.
Wood's RBI single to center field highlighted a two-run fifth inning in which ECU extended its lead to 3-0. Eldridge scored the first run in the inning on a Duncan throwing error to first on Dale Mollenhauer's sacrifice.
Camp plated the Pack's first run of the game on the team's third consecutive single in the bottom of the fifth plating Marcus Jones. Two batters later Bates' grounder to Taylor scored Diaz cutting the lead to 3-2.
Ramon Corona scored the game tying run, 3-3, in the bottom of the ninth on a passed ball with two-outs moving the game into extra innings.
The Pirates will return home and to Conference USA action this weekend when they welcome new member Marshall to Clark-LeClair Stadium.
