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No. 2 North Carolina Baseball Tops Western Carolina, 4-1
March 8, 2000 | Baseball
March 8, 2000
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - The second-ranked University of North Carolina baseball team topped Western Carolina 4-1 Wednesday afternoon at Boshamer Stadium to extend its school-record winning streak to 18 games to start the season. The Catamounts fall to 4-14 in 2000.
Ryan Snare gave up one run on four hits while striking out six in five innings of work to pick up his fourth win of the year. Matt Tanner came on the sixth and provided 2.1 innings of scoreless relief before Ryan Earey took the mound in the eighth and struck out four of the five batters he faced for his first save. Wesley Overbay (1-4) gave up three runs on nine hits over six complete innings for the loss.
Carolina jumped out to an early 1-0 lead on Adam Greenberg's second leadoff home run in the last three games. Western Carolina got a run in the top of the third to tie the game 1-1, but the Tar Heels answered in the bottom of the inning with a pair of runs to jump back on top 3-1. Tyrell Godwin and Ryan Earey had back-to-back two-out singles, and Dan Moylan singled up the middle to drive in both runners.
Carolina finished the scoring with a run in the eighth. Chris Maples knocked a two-out single to center and Sean Farrell, who yesterday blasted two home runs and had five RBI, doubled to left to score Maples and give Carolina its final 4-1 advantage.
Carolina hosts the University of Richmond Spiders this weekend for games on Saturday (1 p.m.) and Sunday (1:30 p.m.). UNC is in the middle of a 12-game homestand and will play 13 of its next 16 games at home, a place where Carolina has won 49 straight games against non-conference foes. Carolina's lone road trip during that stretch is the ACC-opening series at Georgia Tech March 17-19.
