Wake Forest slugger Gavin Sheets (Aaron Fitt)

Fall Report: Wake Forest

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Last fall, we wrote that Wake Forest was built to contend in 2016. The Demon Deacons were more talented and more experienced than they had been in any previous season in the Tom Walter era, and it was imperative that they take advantage of that roster composition by making a regional for the first time since 2007.

And that’s exactly what the Demon Deacons did. Led by D1Baseball’s national Player of the Year, two-way sensation Will Craig, Wake Forest earned a No. 2 seed in the College Station Regional, where it went 1-2.

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