Senior Charlie Mellies is making his final games at Wake Forest count.
Mellies turned in his second consecutive complete game to lead Wake Forest to a 2-0 shutout of Boston College yesterday at Commander Shea Field.
The Deacons improved to 24-28 overall and 13-15 in the ACC. Wake Forest has won eight of its past nine games and six straight in conference play. The Eagles are 25-27 overall and 8-21 in the league play.
Mellies and BC starter Terry Doyle got locked into a pitchers' duel.
Mellies (4-5) scattered eight hits over nine innings. He struck out five and walked just one, needing only 103 pitches to finish the game. He benefited from the Eagles' aggressiveness at the plate. In each of the final six innings, a BC batter swung at the first pitch of the inning. Five of those six swings resulted in outs.
Mellies had to pitch his way out of minor jams in five innings. Boston College put at least one runner in scoring position in the second, fourth, sixth, eighth and ninth innings. In all but one of those innings, the Eagles had a runner in scoring position with fewer than two outs. But Mellies and a stellar defensive effort behind him found ways out.
Yesterday's win was the first complete-game shutout by a Deacon since Mellies did it against then No. 1-ranked Florida on Feb. 26, 2006.
BC's Doyle (3-8) suffered a hard-luck loss in his final college outing. He pitched eight innings, giving up two runs on five hits. He struck out eight and walked four.
The Deacons' hitters got to Doyle for two runs early in the game, and Mellies made the small lead stand up. Wake Forest scored once in the first and then added an insurance run in the third.
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