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No. 2 Tar Heels, Blue Devils Split Doubleheader
March 8, 2008 | Baseball
March 8, 2008
Game One Box Score
Game Two Box Score
Game One Photos
DURHAM, N.C. - ehind a combined six-hitter from Adam Warren and Rob Wooten in the nightcap, No. 2 North Carolina split a doubleheader with Duke Saturday in the Atlantic Coast Conference opener for both teams at Jack Coombs Field. The Tar Heels (9-2, 1-1 ACC) scored a 9-3 win in the second game after the Blue Devils (12-1, 1-1 ACC) took game one, 13-4.
In game two, Warren (2-0) struck out a season-high six over seven innings and held Duke to three runs on six hits. He allowed a three-run home run by Blue Devil shortstop Jake Lemmerman in the second but gave up just three hits the rest of the way en route to his second straight win and a 15-0 career mark. Wooten retired all six batters he faced, including three via strikeout, to close the victory. The Tar Heels did not issue a walk in the game two victory.
At the plate, five Tar Heels posted multi-hit games, including third baseman Chad Flack, who went 3-for-5 with a run and an RBI. Tim Fedroff, Dustin Ackley, Tim Federowicz and Mark Fleury added two hits apiece. Fleury also drove in two runs, and freshman Ben Bunting hit his first career home run, a two-run shot in the fourth that gave Carolina the lead for good.
Fedroff had a team-high five hits over the two games, and Fleury and Flack added four. Ackley extended his hitting streak to 15 games dating to last season, and Seager pushed his streak to a career-best seven games.
After allowing its most runs to the Blue Devils since 1994 in the first game, Carolina scored first in the nightcap when Fedroff singled and scored on a double down the left field line by Federowicz in the first inning against Duke starter Will Currier, who dropped to 2-1 after allowing five runs on seven hits over 4 1/3 innings.
Duke then went in front in the second on Lemmerman's first home run of the season, but the Tar Heels answered with three in the fourth to take a lead they would not relinquish. Flack doubled and scored on a fielder's choice RBI by Fleury, and Bunting followed two batters later with a two-run homer to right on a 3-1 pitch from Currier for a 4-3 UNC lead.
After Ackley drew a leadoff walk and scored on a single up the middle by Flack in the fifth, the Tar Heels added four runs in their final two trips to the plate for the 9-3 final score. In the eighth, Flack singled and scored on a single to left center by Fleury, who later crossed the plate on a passed ball for the final run in the inning. Shortstop Garrett Gore also drove in a run with an RBI groundout to second. In the ninth, Seager singled and scored on a triple down the right field line down Seth Williams for the ninth and final run for UNC.
In the first game of the day, the Blue Devils jumped on Carolina right-hander Alex White (2-1) for four runs in the first. Designated hitter Kyle Kreick opened the scoring with a two-run double, and left fielder Jeremy Gould, who had seven hits on the day, followed with a two-run home run for the four-run lead.
Kreick was 3-for-5 with four RBI in the game, and Gould was 4-for-4 with four RBI. Fedroff was 3-for-5, and Fleury and Seager added two hits apiece for the Tar Heels in the loss.
White allowed a career-high eight runs - five earned - on eight hits in 3 2/3 innings and struck out six. Duke's Andrew Wolcott (2-0) allowed three runs on seven hits in six innings. Kyle Butler earned save after allowing one run over three innings of relief.
After the four-run first and a single run in the third, Duke also struck for a four-run inning in the fourth to jump out to a 9-1 lead. The Blue Devils opened the scoring with an unearned run and an RBI single by first baseman Nate Freiman before Kreick drove in two more runs with a single to left center.
Carolina chipped away with single runs in the fifth and sixth. Fedroff doubled and scored on an error in the fifth, and Williams drove in a run with single to right in the sixth, but the Blue Devils broke the game open in the sixth with three more runs, the first of which came on a single by Gould.
The rubber match of the series is set for 1 p.m. Sunday with left-hander Rob Catapano set to start for the Tar Heels. The winner of Sunday's game will claim a point toward the Carlye Cup, the all-sports competition between the UNC and Duke.
