University of North Carolina Athletics
Monday Baseball Notebook
March 10, 2008 | Baseball
March 10, 2008
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - After opening the season with 10 of its first 12 games on the road, North Carolina opens a seven-game homestand at Cary's USA Baseball National Training Complex by hosting Coastal Carolina and VCU midweek. The Tar Heels (10-2) welcome the Chanticleers (12-1) Tuesday followed by a Wednesday tilt with the Rams (2-9). Both games will start at 3 p.m., and a webcast of each contest will be available live and on-demand through ACC Select.
Carolina leads its all-time slate with Coastal, 34-12, but needed 10 innings to post a 4-3 victory in Chapel Hill a year ago. The Tar Heels will start freshman right-hander Matt Harvey (1-0, 1.04 ERA), while the Chants will throw junior righty David Anderson (2-0, 0.69).
UNC owns a 15-5 all-time mark against VCU and has won the last two meetings in 2005 and 2006. The starters for Wednesday have not been announced.
Each Monday, TarHeelBlue.com will take a look back at the previous week's on the diamond before moving on to another week of baseball action.
NORTH CAROLINA WEEKLY RESULTS:
March 4: North Carolina 10, William & Mary 2
March 8: Duke 13, North Carolina 4
March 9: North Carolina 9, Duke 3
March 10: North Carolina 9, Duke 0
NOTING THE WEEK OF MARCH 3-9:
• From his leadoff position, right fielder Tim Fedroff jump-started the Carolina offense in a 3-1 week. He hit .611 (11-18) and had three three-hit games on the week. The Flagtown, N.J., native belted two home runs, drove in four runs and scored five more. He also slugged 1.000 on the week. In Tuesday's win over William & Mary, Fedroff was 3-for-4 with three RBI and a homer. He added three-hit games in games one and three of the Duke series. In Sunday's series-clincher, he was 3-for-4 with a solo home run and a stolen base. On the season, Fedroff is batting .327 with a team-high four home runs, 14 runs scored and nine RBI.
• Sophomore Mark Fleury entered the week without a multi-hit game to his credit but hit safely in all four games, including two or more hits in all three games in the Duke series. After going 2-for-3 in game one of the series, he went 5-for-10 with five RBI, four runs scored, two RBI and his first career home run as the Tar Heels rallied for the series win. In Sunday's finale, he collected career highs of three hits and three RBI.
• In addition to Fedroff and Fleury, Kyle Seager (.375), Seth Williams (.357), Chad Flack (.353) and Dustin Ackley (.353) each hit over .350 on the week. This quartet also combined to score 16 runs and drive in eight.
• Sophomore Dustin Ackley hit safely in all four games this week to move his current hitting streak to 16 games dating to last season. Classmate Kyle Seager is riding a career-best eight-game hitting streak and is batting .467 (14-30) over this stretch with 11 RBI and nine runs scored. Tim Fedroff has also hit safely in six straight with a .542 average (13-24), five RBI and seven runs over this stretch.
• Senior Chad Flack had six hits last week to continue his move up the Carolina career charts. The Forest City, N.C., native is now fifth all-time in at-bats (837), extra-base hits (86) and total bases (427). Flack also moved into a sixth-place tie with former teammate Josh Horton with 264 career hits, which is just one behind B.J. Surhoff (1983-85) for fifth. Flack is also seventh in RBI with 170 and cracked the top 10 in runs scored with 166. He has played in 211 career games and needs to play in 34 more to break Chad Prosser's record of 244.
• Despite the 13 runs allowed against Duke in game one of the weekend series, the Tar Heels logged a 3.09 ERA for the week and sport a 3.00 mark on the season. Over the final two games of the weekend series, Carolina held Duke to just three runs and struck out 20 batters while issuing just one walk. The Tar Heels did not allow a run over the final 16 innings of the weekend series. For the week, the Tar Heels fanned 39 batters and walked only seven batters.
• In a 3-1 week, North Carolina hit .355 and scored at least nine runs in all three victories. The Tar Heels also had at least 11 hits in all four games, including 16 in Tuesday's win over William & Mary. Sophomores Tim Fedroff and Mark Fleury went a combined 19-for-34 with nine RBI to lead the way.
• Redshirt freshman Colin Bates earned his third win of the season with three hitless innings of relief against Duke Sunday. Freshman righty Matt Harvey picked up his first career win with five strikeouts in four innings in a staff day against William & Mary Tuesday.
• Senior right-hander Tyler Trice struck out six in just 2 1/3 innings of scoreless relief on the week, and classmate Rob Wooten fanned four in four innings.
• Sophomore lefty Rob Catapano pitched well Sunday with five strikeouts over four shutout innings. He did not issue a walk and has 15 strikeouts to just two walks on the season. As a staff, Carolina has 123 strikeouts to only 44 walks in 108 innings.
