May 22, 2002

Recap | Box Score

NC State head coach Elliott Avent:
"Hopefully this was as bad as we can play, and for the sake of baseball the worst any team can play. You leave seventeen men on base, have three double plays - that is twenty scoring opportunities. I'd say a horrific job of hitting with men on base. We played bad defense as well. We were terrible with men on base. There were a lot of other things, but not hitting with men in scoring position is absolutely ugly baseball."

"Wake Forest is 43-9-1 and fourth in the country, they are not a bad ball club. We were playing well. I was very confident about this game and very confident about facing Sleeth. We hit him around a bit last time. He wasn't sharp today at all, and I know he was bothered by something with his hand. I just thought a lot of things were going in our favor. But, to play this poorly, not to take anything away from Wake Forest, but the way we were playing the last week of the season, I was hoping for a little more."

Wake Forest head coach George Greer:
"I thought the first two innings were great and then we couldn't throw strikes. We had an important situation in the third inning where Kyle Sleeth tore a finger nail. I guess you call blood a foreign substance so he was putting a foreign substance on the ball. So we had to stop the bleeding in all ways and turn to other measures, so we used super glue to stop the bleeding. We hit the ball timely and got timely hits tonight, and Jamie D'Antona and Brian Johnson provided the power that they have all year. We also used the bullpen. It wasn't pretty, but we got people out when we had to."

"Defensively, I thought we made the plays we had to make. It was ugly at one standpoint because there were a lot of free walks. There were a lot of high pitch counts. There were a lot of hitter advantage counts. Over my years in baseball, I have seen a lot of just wild enough to be effective pitchers.

"We will have to evaluate Sleeth tomorrow, see how his finger feels and see when he'll be available."