University of Louisville
26-8, 0
NC State
23-12, 0
Louisville Offense Explodes for Record Day at NC State
April 12, 2025 | Baseball
The Cardinals turned in a 25-8 victory on Saturday.
The 25 runs were the most in an ACC game for the Cardinals since joining the league in 2015, and the most in any game since scoring 32 in a win over Alabama A&M on April 26, 2019. The 17-run margin of victory was the largest ever for the Cardinals in an ACC game as well.
The offense pounded out a season-high 22 hits and 14 extra-base hits in the victory, the most since the Alabama A&M game in both categories.
Louisville's eight doubles were its most since having eight against Bellarmine on April 12, 2023, and its six home runs were the most since hitting six against Akron on March 5, 2022.
Louisville (26-8, 9-5 ACC) also extended its streak of scoring double digits runs to eight consecutive games in league play.
The runs came in chunks on Saturday for the Cardinals, beginning with a pair of two-run homers in the first inning. Jake Munroe hit a towering homer to start the scoring and Tague Davis turned around a 3-0 fastball for a 463-foot mammoth homer two batters later.
Louisville went back to work in the third, getting a two-run double from Eddie King Jr. to stretch the lead to six before Davis launched his second two-run shot of the day to make it an 8-0 contest.
Zion Rose doubled in a run in the fourth before scoring on a fielder's choice by Munroe. King then gave the Cards their third four-run inning of the day with a long two-run blast to put Louisville up a dozen.
NC State (23-12, 8-6) plated its first three runs of the game in its half of the fourth, but the Cardinals responded with four more runs in the fifth.
Rose laced a double into the left field corner for two more runs, followed by RBI knocks from Munroe and Bayram Hot.
A two-run homer for NC State made it 16-5 after six innings, however the Louisville offense was far from done.
Two walks and a hit by pitch loaded the bases with nobody out and Tanner Shiver brought everybody home with a grand slam to centerfield, his first home run in a Louisville uniform.
Garret Pike and Michael Lippe each had RBIs to add to the total and Nate Earley punctuated the day with a long three-run homer off the scoreboard in right-centerfield to push the total to 25.
The Cardinals had 12 different players tally a hit and score a run on the day. Rose, Munroe, King and Lucas Moore all had three hits. Munroe, King and Davis drove in four apiece.
Louisville and NC State will play the rubber game of the weekend series on Sunday with first pitch set for 1 p.m. ET.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Cutts, Brennyn (3-0)
L: Heath Andrews (3-2)
Batting:
2B: Moore, Lucas 1 ; Rose, Zion 2 ; Brown, Jack 1 ; Pike, Garret 1 ; King Jr., Eddie 2 ; Hot, Bayram 1
HR: Munroe, Jake 1 ; King Jr., Eddie 1 ; Davis, Tague 2 ; Earley, Nate 1 ; Shiver, Tanner 1
RBI: Rose, Zion 3 ; Pike, Garret 1 ; Munroe, Jake 4 ; King Jr., Eddie 4 ; Davis, Tague 4 ; Earley, Nate 3 ; Hot, Bayram 1 ; Shiver, Tanner 4
SF: Pike, Garret 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Moore, Lucas 3 ; Rose, Zion 3 ; Brown, Jack 1 ; Pike, Garret 1 ; Munroe, Jake 5 ; King Jr., Eddie 3 ; Lippe, Michael 1 ; Davis, Tague 2 ; Earley, Nate 2 ; Hot, Bayram 1 ; Mowry, Collin 1 ; Shiver, Tanner 2
SB: Moore, Lucas 1 ; Shiver, Tanner 1
HBP: Munroe, Jake 1 ; Mowry, Collin 1
Batting:
2B: Trenton Lyons 1
HR: Brayden Fraasman 1 ; Ryan Jaros 1
RBI: Brayden Fraasman 3 ; Trenton Lyons 2 ; Ryan Jaros 2
Base Running:
RUNS: Matt Ossenfort 1 ; Jet Gilliam 1 ; Alex Sosa 1 ; Brayden Fraasman 2 ; Luke Nixon 1 ; Trenton Lyons 1 ; Ryan Jaros 1
CS: Josh Hogue 1
