University of North Carolina Athletics
North Carolina vs. UNC Wilmington Postgame Notes
June 1, 2008 | Baseball
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• With the 7-3 win over UNC Wilmington Sunday, the Tar Heels won their third straight regional title and their fourth in the last six seasons. Carolina has captured eight regional crowns in 23 trips to the NCAA Tournament since 1948.
• Carolina's 7-3 victory over UNCW ran its record to 11-1 at home in NCAA play over the last three seasons. The Tar Heels have swept through nine straight games in the regional round since 2006. UNC is now 68-50 in 118 all-time NCAA Tournament games, and Mike Fox is now 33-18 in the postseason.
• UNC now has 49 wins on the season to rank as the fourth most in school history. The Tar Heels have recorded three of the top four win totals in program history over the last three years. UNC needs just one more victory to post its third straight 50-win season.
• Regional Most Outstanding Player Tim Fedroff hit .818 (9-11) with eight RBI on the weekend. He was joined on the all-tournament team by Dustin Ackley, Ryan Graepel, Seth Williams, Mark Fleury and Alex White.
• Tim Fedroff became the sixth Tar Heel with 100 hits in a season with his first-inning single, and Dustin Ackley followed suit with his 100th hit with a single in the eighth. Five of the seven 100-hit seasons in program history have come in the last three seasons - Chad Flack and Josh Horton in 2006, Ackley in 2007 and Fedroff and Ackley in 2008. Ackley is the first player in school history with a pair of 100-hit seasons. Fedroff, who was 3-for-3 with two RBI, is tied for fifth in school history with 102 base hits, while Ackley, who was 2-for-5 Sunday, is seventh with 100.
• Mark Fleury's fifth-inning three-run home run was his third of the season and first since April 18 against Boston College. He matched a career-high with three hits, including a second-inning single and a leadoff double in the eighth. He also recorded is first multi-hit game since going 2-for-2 April 11 at Clemson. Fleury reached base on all five trips to the plate in the regional with a home run, two doubles and a single and a walk.
• Dustin Ackley doubled and scored the game-tying run in the fifth to give him 75 runs scored this season to move into a tie for fourth on the UNC single-season list.
• Brian Moran, who pitched two innings to earn his first career win, came on to pitch out of a bases-loaded jam in the fifth and has allowed only four of 37 inherited runners to score this season.
• Rob Wooten made his 103rd career appearance Sunday and struck out the final two batters of the game to earn his fourth save.
• Sunday's game was delayed due to inclement weather at 7:19 p.m. and resumed at 8:35 p.m. following a 76-minute delay.
• The Tar Heels have now won seven straight games against the Seahawks.
