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WAKE FOREST BASEBALL Deacons on Cape Cod . .Inside Cover Quick Facts/Credits . .1 Wake Forest University . .2-3 Strength and Conditioning . .4 Sports Medicine . .5 Student-Athlete Services . .6 Community Service Work . .7 Demon Deacon Athletics . .8 Wake Forest Athletics Facilities . .9 Gene Hooks Stadium . .10-11 The City of Winston-Salem . .12 The Atlantic Coast Conference . .13 Deacons in Pro Ball . .14 THE COACHING STAFF Head Coach Rick Rembielak . .16-19 Assistant Coach Jon Palmieri . .20 Assistant Coach Greg Bauer . .21 Assistant Coach Marshall Canosa . .22 Dir. of Baseball Operations Fred Worth . .22 Baseball Support Staff . .23 Athletic Director Ron Wellman . .24 THE 2008 DEMON DEACONS Season Outlook . .26-29 2008 Roster . .30 FOREST BASEBALL 2008 WAKE Radio/TV Roster . .31 2008 Schedule . .32 Player Profiles . .34-53 Third-year captain Charlie Mellies Second-year captain Andy Goff THE 2008 OPPONENTS Appalachian State, Boston College . .56 Charlotte, Clemson . .56 TICKETS 2008 BASEBALL QUICK FACTS Coastal Carolina, Davidson . .57 There are two ways to order tickets for the 2008 Wake Location: Winston-Salem, N.C. Duke, Elon . .57 Forest baseball season. Enrollment: 4,321 Florida State, Georgia Tech . .58 Visit www.WakeForestSports.com and purchase them Founded: 1834 High Point, Kennesaw State . .58 online or call 1-888-758-DEAC. Season and single-game Nickname: Demon Deacons Maryland, Miami . .59 ticket plans are available. Colors: Old Gold & Black UNC Asheville, UNC Greensboro . .59 NC State, UNC Wilmington . .60 Gene Hooks Stadium features more than 2,000 seats Conference: Atlantic Coast Penn State, Pepperdine . .60 for a big league experience in addition to great seating Affiliation: NCAA Division I Troy, Virginia . .61 along the baselines. Come watch Wake Forest baseball President: Dr. Nathan O. Hatch Virginia Tech, Winthrop . .61 this season at Hooks Stadium. Athletic Director: Ron Wellman All-Time Series Results . .62 Home Field (Capacity): Gene Hooks Stadium (2,500) ON THE COVERS Year Built: 1981 2007 IN REVIEW Game-By-Game Results . .64 The 2008 Wake Forest baseball media guide front Head Coach: Rick Rembielak Overall Statistics . .65 cover features (clockwide from top left) Charlie Mellies, Record at Wake Forest (Years): 95-81 (3) ACC In Review . .66 Ben Hunter, Allan Dykstra, Willy Fox, Brett Linnenkohl and Career Record: 468-332-1 (.589 / 14 years) ACC Statistics . .67 Andy Goff. 2007 Record: 34-29 Season-Highs . .68 The back cover features (clockwide from top left) 2007 ACC Record (Finish): 14-16 Austin Jones, Matt Hammond, Ben Terry, Eric Williams 2007 ACC Finish: 8th Overall / 4th in Atlantic THE RECORD BOOK Career Records . .70 and Nathan Frazier. 2007 Postseason Results: ACC Tournament Single Season Records . .71 The front inside cover highlights Wake Forest’s suc- (#8 seed, Runner-Up, 2-2) Single Game Records . .72 cess in the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League. NCAA Round Rock Regional Freshman Records . .73 The back inside cover shows the 2008 Wake Forest (#3 seed, 1-2) Yearly Batting Leaders . .74-75 baseball schedule, as well as a view of Hooks Stadium. Overall Record (Years): 1758-1229-22 (93) Yearly Pitching Leaders . .75-76 NCAA Championships: 1 (1955) Deacons in the Draft . .77 Last Time It Happened . .78 CREDITS College World Series Record (Appearances): 7-3 (2) Attendance Records . .78 The 2008 Wake Forest Baseball media guide was writ- NCAA Super Regional Championships: none All-Time Roster . .79-82 ten, edited and designed by Scott Wortman. NCAA Super Regional Record (Appearances): 0-2 (1) All-Americans . .83 Chief editorial assistance by Steve Shutt and Emily NCAA Regional Championships: 1 (1999) ACC Players of the Year . .84 Richey. Remaining assistance by Wake Forest media re- NCAA Regional Record (Appearances): 15-16 (7) ACC 50th Anniversary Members . .84 lations student staff. ACC Championships: 7 (‘55, ‘62, ‘63, ‘77, ‘98, ‘99, ‘01) All-ACC Honors . .85 ACC Tournament History . .86 Cover designs by Scott Wortman. Chief photography NCAA Tournament History . .87 by Brian Westerholt of Sports on Film and WFU photog- MEDIA RELATIONS 1955 NCAA Champions . .88 rapher Ken Bennett. Additional photography by Mike Assistant Director/Baseball Contact: Scott Wortman 1962 ACC Champions . .89 Kledzik, Sports Pix and the media relations archives. Wortman’s Office Phone: (336) 758-6099 1963 ACC Champions . .89 Printed by Jostens, Winston-Salem, N.C. Special Wortman’s Cell Phone: (419) 203-4229 1977 ACC Champions . .90 thanks to the Wake Forest baseball staff, Jan Volk of Wortman’s Email: [email protected] 1998 ACC Champions . .91 1999 ACC Champions . .92 SportsPix, Jim Collins, the ACC Media Relations Office, Assistant AD/Media Relations: Steve Shutt 2001 ACC Champions . .93 opposing SID offices, past Wake Forest baseball SIDs and Shutt’s Email: [email protected] Year-By-Year Results . .94-102 Wake Forest and ACC sports information trailblazer Mar- Media Relations Phone: (336) 758-5640 “Friends Of” Program . .103 vin “Skeeter” Francis. Media Relations Fax: (336) 758-5140 2008 Monthly Calendar Schedule . .Inside Back 2008 WAKE FOREST BASEBALL 1 UNIVERSITY QUICK FACTS SMALL IN SIZE. BIG IN RESOURCES. TALL AMONG NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES. ❏ The university was ake Forest University is one of the nation’s premier private lib- A leader among American educational institutions, Wake Forest has an- founded in 1834 in Wake For- eral arts universities, but the Wake Forest experience distin- nually received recognition from U.S. News & World Report as one of the top schools in the nation. Barron’s Guide to the Most Competitive Schools has est, N.C. It re-located to Win- guishes itself from others in many ways. Wake Forest offers W also ranked Wake Forest among the nation’s best public and private univer- students the opportunity to discover not only who they are, but also who ston-Salem in 1956. sities in the South. they can become. Through lessons learned in classrooms and labs, but also Wake Forest has an undergraduate enrollment of approximately 4,321. It ❏ With an undergraduate en- from the world around them, Wake Forest students are challenged intellec- is one of just a few remaining private schools to offer a need-blind admissions rollment of approximately tually and spiritually to become better students, and to become better per- program, in which qualified students are accepted without regard to their fi- 4,321 students, Wake Forest sons. nancial need. A caring community, big-time athletic programs, and supportive Wake Forest is best described as a small school with the academic re- is the third-smallest school in alumni networks contribute to Wake Forest’s reputation as one of the finest sources of a large school. It is recognized for outstanding teacher-scholars schools in the country. the country to field teams in for whom teaching and research are priorities; libraries with comprehensive Steeped in rich history and tradition, Wake Forest was founded in 1834 Division I-A athletics. collections of print and electronic material; technology that includes a laptop in the town of Wake Forest, North Carolina, and relocated seventy-five miles computer for every student; and an intimate educational environment of west to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1956. The picturesque Reynolda ❏ Wake Forest’s low stu- small classes and teacher-student interaction. Campus, or main campus, is home to the Undergraduate College, the Cal- dent-to-faculty ratio of 10:1 encourages personal atten- tion and one-on-one interac- tion between professors and students. ❏ Wake Forest offers a pri- vate, co-educational liberal arts curriculum. ❏ The undergraduate schools include Wake Forest College and the Wayne Calloway School of Business and Ac- countancy. ❏ All undergraduates receive an IBM ThinkPad and a printer upon enrollment. The com- puters are upgraded after two years and become the stu- WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY WAKE dent’s property upon gradua- tion. ❏ The university’s motto is “Pro Humanitate”, meaning “for the good of humanity”. Students are encouraged to use their knowledge in serv- ice to others. Most partici- pate in some kind of volunteer activity during their time at Wake. ❏ Wake Forest hosted presi- dential debates in 1988 and 2000, when George W. Bush debated then-Vice President Al Gore in Wait Chapel. ❏ Recent commencement speakers have included Arnold Palmer, Colin Powell, Barbara Bush and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. 2 WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: STEEPED IN RICH HISTORY AND TRADITION. loway School of Business and Accountancy, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the an unparalleled college experience. Students find outstanding educational programs, the finest School of Law, the Babcock Graduate School of Management and the Divinity School. The teacher-scholars, sophisticated computing and networking technology, intimate class settings, Bowman Gray Campus is home to the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. a strong sense of community and a competitive athletic program. They leave Wake Forest While much of their learning takes place on campus, many students make the world their with an ethically informed education that has prepared them not only for a career, but also for classroom; about 50 percent of students have studied abroad by the time they graduate. Many a life in service to humanity. study at the University’s international residential centers: Flow House in Vienna, Casa Artom in Venice, and Worrell House in London. Others participate in programs in Africa, Mexico, Cuba, Japan, Russia, Spain and France. Wake Forest offers plentiful opportunities for students and faculty to participate in social and service activities. More than 1,100 students regularly volunteer with the Volunteer Service Corps (VSC). One popular program is Project Pumpkin, which brings local children to campus to trick-or-treat in residence halls along University Plaza. Other projects include a spring carnival in conjunction with Special Olympics, construction of homes for Habitat for Humanity, and al- ternative break trips such as caring for the poor and elderly in India.