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UNC Baseball Beats Davidson, 11-5
April 5, 2000 | Baseball
April 5, 2000
Chapel Hill, N.C. - Tied 3-3 after four innings, No. 5 North Carolina pulled away from Davidson for a 11-5 win Wednesday night at Boshamer Stadium. The Tar Heels, winners of six of their last seven games, are 28-6 on the season, while Davidson falls to 19-17.
Eric Henderson (5-3) entered the game in the fifth and pitched 2.1 innings of hitless relief to be credited with the win, his first in his past five outings. After struggling through three straight losses since starting the year 4-0, the junior lefty struck out four of the seven batters he faced. Mark Wells (4-1) gave up four runs, three earned, on six hits while striking out one over 5.0 innings for the loss.
Carolina's 1-2-3 hitters, Adam Greenberg, Dan Moylan and Clay Hooper each had two-hit games, while Ryan Earey was 1-for-4 with a three-run home run in a five-run seventh inning that helped break the game open. The Tar Heels tallied 11 hits overall in the victory.
The Tar Heels got on the board in the bottom of the first with one run on two hits. Moylan, who got the rare start in right field, doubled and Hooper's RBI single knocked him home for the 1-0 UNC lead.
Wildcat leadoff man Ryan Stroker's two-run homer, the first long ball of his career, gave Davidson a 2-1 lead midway through the third inning. The Tar Heels responded with two runs of their own in the bottom half of the inning, including Greenberg's fifth home run of the season.
Davidson scored again in the fourth to knot the score 3-3, but Carolina pulled away with eight runs over the next three innings. Tyrell Godwin's stand-up triple in the fifth scored Hooper for a 4-3 lead, while Greenberg had an RBI triple of his own in a two-run sixth for a 6-3 lead.
Earey's three-run home run, his team-leading ninth homer of the year, highlighted Carolina's five-run fifth. Sean Farrell and Chris Maples added RBI singles in the inning for the 11-3 lead. Davidson runs in the eighth and ninth cut the final margin to 11-5.
Tar Heel starter Scott Autrey left the game in the fifth with the score tied 3-3. He allowed four hits while striking out three in giving up three earned runs over 4.2 innings of work.
Carolina travels to Winston-Salem for a three-game series with Wake Forest this weekend. Game times are as follows: Friday at 3 p.m., Saturday at 1 p.m. and Sunday at 1:30 p.m. All three games will be broadcast live on the Tar Heel Sports Network, with Saturday's game being carried on television by Fox Sports South.
