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Le Moyne Pins 12-7 Upset On Carolina
March 11, 2001 | Baseball
March 11, 2001
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Le Moyne College defeated North Carolina 12-7 at Boshamer Stadium on Sunday afternoon. The Tar Heels were going for the three game sweep after taking the first two games of the series, but the Dolphins were too much to handle on this day.
Carolina committed four errors, used seven pitchers and ran into a tough opposing starter in Brian Mattoon who pitched eight strong innings, giving up only three earned runs on seven hits and three walks while striking out five earning him his first victory of the season.
After retiring the first two batters in the top of the first, Carolina starter Scott Manshack walked Le Moyne shortstop Anthony Aquilino and Scott Edwardsen (2-4, 3 RBI) followed with a line drive home run over the left field wall giving the Dolphins an early 2-0 lead.
The game remained 2-0 until the top of the fourth inning when Le Moyne put two more runs on the board to pull ahead 4-0. Catcher Brett Woodcock (3-5, 3 runs) started the inning off with a single to right-center field. Carolina's Bo Dickerson then came in for Manshack. After two sacrifice bunts and an error, Woodcock scored on a wild pitch by Dickerson. Sam Parkins (2-4, 4 RBI) then singled home Bryan Frisbee, giving the Dolphins their second run of the inning.
The Tar Heels responded with one run in the bottom of the fourth. Russ Adams led off with a walk, advanced to second on a wild pitch and scored on Jeremy Cleveland's single, Carolina's first hit of the afternoon.
ut Le Moyne scored five more times in the fifth, extending their lead to eight runs. There were three singles, two wild pitches and one error in the inning before Parkins hit a two-run triple, giving him three runs batted in on the afternoon.
Carolina pulled within six runs at 9-3 in their half of the fifth. Chad Prosser (1-3, RBI) reached on a fielder's choice, advanced on a wild pitch then scored when Adam Greenberg reached on an error. Russ Adams followed with a single then Sean Farrell (3-5, 2 RBI) drove in Greenberg with his second hit of the day.
Le Moyne added one run in the top of the sixth and two more in the top of the ninth increasing their lead to 12-3. Carolina rallied for 4 runs of their own in the bottom of the ninth but it proved to be too little. Bart Walker (1-1, RBI), Ralph Roberts (2-3, RBI) and Farrell each had RBI doubles in Carolina's final effort to pull even.
Carolina returns to action Tuesday as they travel to Coastal Carolina before returning home next weekend to open up the ACC regular season against Wake Forest.
