University of North Carolina Athletics
Carolina Baseball Monday Notebook
March 19, 2007 | Baseball
March 19, 2007
• The Tar Heels dropped their first series at home since going 0-2-1 against Miami in 2005, but avoided their first sweep at home since 2003 with a 9-4 win over Virginia in Sunday's series finale. Carolina went 3-2 on the week and improved to 18-3 overall and 4-2 in the ACC. The Tar Heels have already played No. 11 Miami and No. 7 Virginia in conference play and still sit in first in the ACC's Coastal Division.
• Sunday's win against Virginia was the 899th for head coach Mike Fox in his 24-year career. He can earn victory No. 900 Tuesday against Towson.
• Freshman first baseman Dustin Ackley continued his red-hot start for the Tar Heels by going 14-for-21 (.667) with four runs scored and four RBI in five games last week. He went 10-for-13 in the Virginia series (.769) and at one point had 11 hits in 12 trips to the plate over a three-game span. After going 3-for-4 Wednesday vs. UNC Greensboro, Ackley posted back-to-back four-hit games against the Cavaliers. He also reached base in 12 consecutive official at-bats at one point and posted a .652 on-base percentage for the week. Ackley, who is riding a team-best 13-game hitting streak, is batting a team-best .481 (39-81) on the season and leads Carolina with 11 doubles, 27 RBI and a .704 slugging percentage. In just 21 games played, Ackley has 13 multi-hit games. In six games in ACC play, Ackley is batting a league-best .640 (16-25) with six RBI.
Ackley is now second in the ACC in batting, hits, doubles and total bases and is third in slugging and fourth in RBI.
• Sophomore Tim Federowicz had a good week at the plate with a .409 average (9-22) over five games. He drove in four runs and tallied two doubles. Federowicz, who combined for five hits in Sunday's doubleheader split with Virginia, is third on the team with a .333 average and is second with 19 RBI.
• Freshman Tim Fedroff had four hits on the week and has emerged as one of the Tar Heels top left-handed bats with a .367 average (11-30) over just 14 games played. Fedroff had his third career multi-hit game in Sunday's finale versus UVa.
• Senior reliever Matt Danford posted a 1.29 ERA over seven innings last week. He picked up his 15th career win against UNC Greensboro Wednesday and added his 10th career save and first since 2005 Tuesday versus Elon. The Raleigh native owns a 1.62 ERA over 16 2/3 innings. Danford has struck out eight and walked eight.
• Sophomore righty Adam Warren moved to 3-0 on the season with a solid start against Elon Tuesday. He allowed just one run on three hits over 5 1/3 innings against the Phoenix and now sports a 1.06 ERA over 17 innings on the year.
• Sophomore Luke Putkonen picked up the win in the second game of Sunday's doubleheader against Virginia to move to 4-0 this season and 10-0 in his career. Carolina's weekend starting rotation of Robert Woodard, Alex White and Putkonen owns a 40-3 combined career record.
