University of North Carolina Athletics
Greenberg, Maples Earn First-Team All-ACC Honors
May 26, 2002 | Baseball
May 26, 2002
CHAPEL HILL - North Carolina's Adam Greenberg and Chris Maples have earned first-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference baseball honors. It is the seventh consecutive year that UNC has had at least one representative on the first-team All-ACC team, but the first such honor for both Greenberg, a junior centerfielder from Guilford, Conn., and Maples, a senior utility player from Hillsborough, N.C.
A career .290 hitter with nine home runs over the past three seasons, Maples exploded in his senior season, batting .356 with 22 home runs and 74 RBIs. He has established new single-season school records for extra-base hits (46), total bases (181) and his 22 home runs lead the ACC and are just two shy of the school record of 24 set in 1986. He also began pitching in 2002 and leads the Tar Heels with four saves in 19 relief appearances.
Greenberg, the 2000 ACC Rookie of the Year and a second-team all-conference selection that year, has had a breakout junior season, batting .346 with 17 home runs, 57 RBIs and 35 steals. He is one of three Tar Heels to start all 59 games thus far in 2002 and he has started all but two games in his UNC career. He had seven leadoff home runs in 2002 and his name appears throughout the single-season and career school record books. He is the all-time UNC leader with 17 career triples and he ranks second all-time with 197 runs, third with 124 walks, fourth with 92 stolen bases and fifth with 247 hits.
The Tar Heels are 40-19 and will learn where they will open play in the NCAA Tournament on Monday.
