University of North Carolina Athletics
Monday Baseball Notebook
March 24, 2008 | Baseball
March 24, 2008
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - After scoring 33 runs over its last two games at Maryland, No. 3 North Carolina looks to remain hot at the plate with a pair of midweek games at Cary's USA Baseball National Training Complex. The Tar Heels (18-4) host Davidson at 6 p.m. Tuesday, followed by a meeting with Gardner-Webb at 6 p.m. Wednesday.
Davidson is 7-12 on the season and was swept last weekend at College of Charleston. Gardner-Webb is 9-12 and was swept at Lipscomb over the weekend.
Carolina leads its all-time series with the Wildcats by an 80-21 margin and is unbeaten in four all-time meetings with the Bulldogs.
A webcast of both midweek games will be available live and on-demand through ACC Select.
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(18-4, 7-2 ACC):
March 18: #3 North Carolina 7, Princeton 0
March 19: #3 North Carolina 8, Princeton 2
March 21: Maryland 4, #3 North Carolina 2
March 22: #3 North Carolina 14, Maryland 1
March 23: #3 North Carolina 19, Maryland 1
NOTING THE WEEK OF MARCH 17-23:
• Following a midweek sweep of Princeton, Carolina won its eighth consecutive series from Maryland by taking two of three in College Park. The Tar Heels dropped the first game, but outscored the Terps 33-2 over the final two games. UNC posted season highs of 19 runs and 20 hits in Sunday's win.
• Carolina used the big inning to key its series win at Maryland by scoring five or more runs five times over the final two games of the series. UNC hit .387 with 48 base hits in the series.
• The 19 runs in Sunday's win at Maryland marked the most by the Tar Heels against an ACC opponent since a 20-2 win over Duke in the 2004 ACC Tournament in Salem, Va.
• UNC's pitching staff continued its strong run with a 1.02 ERA over five games last week. The Tar Heels allowed just eight runs - five earned - for the week and struck out 47 to just 13 walks in 44 innings. Carolina lowered its ERA to an ACC-best 2.13 mark and a 1.78 mark in nine conference games. Individually, freshman right-hander Matt Harvey is third in the ACC with a 1.19 ERA and leads the league with a 0.73 mark in two conference starts. Sophomore righty Alex White is ninth in the league with a 2.19 ERA.
• The Tar Heels hit .358 as a team last week with six regulars batting .381 or better of the last five games. Chad Flack (.579), Kyle Shelton (.500), Seth Williams (.462), Tim Fedroff (.455), Tim Federowicz (.421) and Kyle Seager (.381) combined for 49 hits and 34 RBI last week. Carolina is now batting .323 as a team, which ranks third in the ACC. Sophomores Dustin Ackley (.409 - seventh), Tim Fedroff (.392 - 10th) and Kyle Seager (.389 - 13th) all rank among the ACC batting leaders.
• Carolina is the only team to rank among the ACC's top three in batting and pitching. The Tar Heels are third with a .323 batting average and lead the league with a 2.13 ERA.
• Senior third baseman Chad Flack led Carolina with a .579 average (11-19) in a 4-1 week for the third-ranked Tar Heels. Seven of his 11 hits were for extra bases, including five doubles and a pair of home runs. He also added eight runs scored and drove in eight runs, while slugging 1.158 for the week. Flack tallied four straight multi-hit games to close the week, including a pair of three-hit efforts against Maryland. In Sunday's series finale, Flack went 3-for-6 with two doubles, a grand slam and five RBI. Flack entered the week with a .203 average but raised it to .284 with three home runs, 17 RBI and nine doubles. With the 11 hits over the last five games, Flack moved into fourth on the Tar Heels' career list with 277 base hits.
• Second baseman Kyle Seager hit safely in all five games last week to improve his career-best hitting streak to 18 games. His is batting .389 on the season with three home runs and team-highs of 15 doubles and 29 RBI. Seager is just one RBI shy of his 2007 total of 30 after just 22 games this year. The Kannapolis product leads the ACC in doubles with 15 - five more than anyone else - and is second with his 29 RBI.
• Center fielder Seth Williams has hit in 13 straight games, which is one shy of his career-best hitting streak set in 2005. Williams is batting a career-best .338 on the season with four home runs and 22 RBI.
• Right fielder Tim Fedroff hit his first career grand slam in Sunday's win at drove in a career-high six runs. Fedroff hit .455 with a team-high nine RBI on the week. He is batting .392 with a team-best six home runs and 22 RBI. Fedroff shares the ACC lead with 38 hits and tops the league with 31 runs scored.
• Sophomore Dustin Ackley swiped three bases in the Maryland series and leads the Tar Heels with 10 in 10 attempts on the season, which is just one shy of his team-best total of 11 last year. UNC has 26 steals as a team this year after swiping just 47 bags in 73 games a year ago.
• Kyle Shelton matched career highs with four hits and three RBI in Sunday's win at Maryland.
• Freshman righty Patrick Johnson held Princeton to just one hit over five shutout innings in the Tar Heels' 7-0 win Tuesday. He matched a career-high with seven strikeouts for the second straight start and walked just one. Johnson is 2-0 on the season with a 1.98 ERA in 13 2/3 innings. He has 16 strikeouts against just four walks.
• Carolina's bullpen worked 16 scoreless innings last week highlighted by 3 1/3 scoreless innings by Brian Moran and three scoreless innings from Tyler Trice.
• UNC's starting hurlers went 28 innings last week and allowed only five earned runs for a 1.61 ERA. Midweek starters Patrick Johnson (5.0 inn., 1 BB, 7 K) and Mike Facchinei (5.1 inn., 1 BB, 8 K) combined for 15 strikeouts in just 10 1/3 innings against Princeton. Junior Adam Warren (6.0 inn., 3 BB, 7 K) and freshman Matt Harvey (6.0 inn., 2 BB, 4 K) picked up wins on the weekend.
• Junior right-hander Adam Warren won his fourth straight start Saturday against Maryland to improve to 4-0 on the season 17-0 in his career. Warren is sixth in the ACC with a 1.89 ERA in three conference starts.
