University of North Carolina Athletics
North Carolina vs. East Carolina Postgame Notes
June 2, 2007 | Baseball
June 2, 2007
• With three runs in the bottom of the ninth inning, No. 3 national seed North Carolina advanced to a regional final for the sixth time in the last seven years with an 11-10 win over East Carolina. The Tar Heels are now 5-0 in Chapel Hill Regional play over the last two seasons and 11-2 in their last 13 postseason games.
• Carolina improved to 4-1 in NCAA play against East Carolina and has won its last eight meetings with Pirates. The Tar Heels have not lost to ECU since April 17, 2002 and have not lost in the series at Boshamer Stadium since April 27, 1994. UNC head coach Mike Fox is now 12-2 against the Pirates.
• With the victory, Carolina reached the 50-win mark for just the third time in program history and the second straight season. The Tar Heels needed just 62 games to reach 50 wins, matching the 1990 squad for the quickest to 50 in school history.
• The 10 runs allowed were the most in an NCAA Tournament win in Carolina history. The Tar Heels allowed nine runs in an 11-9 victory over Memphis in the 1978 South Regional final. Current head coach Mike Fox was a second baseman on that team.
• The 16 hits allowed by the Tar Heels matched a season high set against Georgia Tech May 13. Carolina has won both games in which it allowed 16 hits this season.
• After going hitless in back-to-back games for just the second time this season, freshman first baseman Dustin Ackley went 2-for-6 with two runs scored and drove in the game-winning run with a single in the ninth. He now has 109 hits on the season for the second-best, single-season total in school history. Ackley has a UNC freshman-record 64 RBI on the season.
• Dustin Ackley's base hit in the ninth scored left fielder Reid Fronk from second. He was 3-for-6 with three runs scored and now has a team-best 65 runs on the season. He is just three shy of his career-best 68 runs scored set in 2006, which ranks ninth all-time at Carolina.
• Shortstop Josh Horton went 2-for-5 with three RBI Saturday and has four hits and four RBI over the first two games of regional play. Horton has driven in 16 runs in 16 career postseason games.
• Freshman outfielder Tim Fedroff, who was 3-for-5 with two runs scored and an RBI, tripled home Reid Fronk in the sixth for his fifth triple of the year. Three Tar Heels - Fedroff, Fronk and Josh Horton - have five triples on the season and are tied for sixth on the Carolina single-season list. Fedroff has now hit safely in 22 of the last 27 games.
• Junior reliever Rob Wooten improved to 4-1 on the season with a scoreless ninth inning in Saturday's win. Wooten has struck out five of the eight batters he has faced in the regional and has now pitched in 37 games this season, which is fourth on the Tar Heels' single-season list.
• Before allowing five East Carolina runs in the third, the Tar Heels' pitching staff tossed 11 scoreless innings to open the NCAA Tournament. All five runs were charged to starter Alex White, who had a run of nine consecutive shutout frames dating to the shutout of Virginia in the ACC Tournament snapped.
• Freshman right-hander Alex White, a Greenville native, allowed a career-high seven runs on a career high-tying nine hits over five-plus innings. He had given up just three runs over his last two starts, which totaled 14 innings.
• Kyle Roller's eighth inning solo home run off Andrew Carignan was just the second he has allowed all season. The 0-2 homer down the left field line was Roller's 11th of the year.
• Third baseman Chad Flack has hit safely in both regional games, giving him five straight and 12 of the last 15 games.
• The Tar Heels and Pirates combined for nine runs in the second inning, the most since UNC and Georgia Tech put up 12 runs in the third May 13.
• Catcher Tim Federowicz drove in a run for the second straight game and has three RBI in the regional. Federowicz has 17 career NCAA Tournament RBI in just 13 games. He has 61 RBI on the year and needs just one more to match his 2006 total.
