Boisvert's Career Day Moves Pollard into Second All-Time at Duke

Tuesday, March 26

Durham, N.C.

4 p.m.

Duke University

18-7

Campbell

17-7

Campbell

Duke

Boisvert's Career Day Moves Pollard into Second All-Time at Duke

3/26/2024 8:02:00 PM | Baseball

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DURHAM – Duke head coach Chris Pollard surpassed Steve Traylor with his 357th win in a Blue Devils uniform on Tuesday evening, as No. 11 Duke (18-7) downed Campbell (17-7), 11-1 at Jack Coombs Field.

Junior right-hander David Boisvert worked a perfect four innings on the mound in his second career start, punching out five Camels along the way. Both the innings pitched, and strikeouts were new career highs for Boisvert, and the righty has worked 12.2 innings of scoreless baseball this season.

Duke used a six-run seventh inning and a four run eighth inning to tally their ninth game of scoring 10-plus runs this season. That mark is extended to 9-0 when scoring 10-plus runs in a contest, after posting a perfect 18-0 ledger last season.

Five Blue Devils tallied multi-hit days, as Zac Morris (3), Ben Miller (3), AJ Gracia (2), Alex Stone (2) and Devin Obee (2) all registered that accomplishment. Sophomore Owen Proksch worked two innings in relief on Tuesday, allowing two hits and striking out one to improve to 2-0 on the season. He, Boisvert, Tim Noone and jimmy Romano all posted clean frames in the outing against Campbell.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Zac Morris doubled down the line in right to score Chase Krewson from second in the bottom of the fifth, 1-0.
Campbell tied the game in the top of the sixth, 1-1.
Morris singled through the left side to score Devin Obee from second. Ben Miller hit a three-run home run to left field. AJ Gracia scored on a wild pitch. Wallace Clark hit a sacrifice fly to right field to score Logan Bravo from third, in the bottom of the seventh, 7-1.
In the bottom of the eighth, Gracia singled to right field to score a pair. Duke scored a pair on a sacrifice fly and an error, 11-1.

NOTES

Junior David Boisvert posted his second consecutive career day on the mound, working four innings of perfect baseball with a career high five strikeouts. He now holds a scoreless innings streak of 12.2, after two back-to-back no-hit performances.
Graduate Ben Miller hit his ninth home run of the season, a three-run blast to left field. He finished the day 3-for-4 with two runs scored, three RBI and one walk.
Duke baseball improved to 9-0 this season when scoring 10-plus runs in a contest.
Five Blue Devils tallied multi-hit days against Campbell, as Zac Morris (3), Miller (3), AJ Gracia (2), Alex Stone (2) and Devin Obee (2) all joined the fun.
Duke improves to 185-60 (.755) when scoring first in contests since 2016 and 199-42 (.826) when scoring three-plus runs in an inning.
Head coach Chris Pollard surpassed Steve Traylor for second all-time on the Duke wins list with 357. He now chases legendary head coach Jack Coombs for first all-time with 381.

QUOTES

"I told our guys on Sunday that I was really starting to believe that we are rounding into the best version of ourselves. I think we may have played our most complete game of the season tonight. That team is a top-20 offense in the country, and they came into tonight with opponents having given them just shy of 200 free bases from the mound. We allowed one free base tonight, and it was a really impressive performance by our pitching staff." – Head coach Chris Pollard on his overall thoughts about the game tonight.
"What Boisvert is doing is really electric. He is featuring a 94-95 mph fastball that has heavy run and sink on it. The swings and misses he was getting on his fastball tonight were below the barrel and hands. That just goes to show you how good the fastball was, and David is doing some really good things. He was able to feature the slider more and is growing into a guy to be reckoned with throwing the midweek." – On the job David Boisvert has done taking over the midweek starting job.

UP NEXT

Duke steps back into ACC play this weekend, hosting No. 9 Virginia for a weekend series. First pitch on Thursday is scheduled for 6 p.m.

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