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May 30, 2009 | Baseball
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- With Saturday's 14-5 win over Coastal Carolina, North Carolina improved to 11-0 in regional play at home over the last four seasons.
- The Tar Heels are 75-52 all-time in the NCAA Tournament, 40-20 under Mike Fox and 28-8 in the postseason since the start of the 2006 tourney.
- With tonight's victory, the Tar Heels bettered their record to 4-0 versus the Chanticleers in NCAA Tournament play with three victories over the last two seasons. UNC is 37-14 in 51 all-time meetings with Coastal Carolina.
- The Tar Heels recorded 14 runs on 17 hits for the second straight postseason meeting with Coastal Carolina. UNC also posted those totals in last year's 14-4 NCAA Cary Super Regional clincher on June 8, 2008.
- The top five hitters in the Carolina order combined to drive in 12 of the Tar Heels' 14 runs. Ben Bunting, Kyle Seager and Levi Michael each tallied a game-high three RBI.
- One day after setting the Tar Heels' career base hit record, Dustin Ackley added a second career mark by scoring a first-inning run, the 220th of his career. He entered the game tied with Jarrett Shearin, who set the previous record with 219 runs from 1996-99, and Ackley also scored in the eighth for 221 in his career.
- Ackley went 4-for-4 for his 15th career game with at least four hits to extend a 16-game hitting streak in NCAA play dating to Carolina's final four games of the 2007 College World Series. He has a hit in 20 of 25 career postseason games and has 12 multi-hit efforts in NCAA play.
- Ackley is batting .500 (30-60) in May with nine multi-hit games in 14 chances. He raised his season average to .414 Saturday and is just two hits shy of his third straight 100-hit season.
- With his 4-for-4 effort tonight, Ackley is now a career .478 hitter (11-23) in six games versus Coastal Carolina.
- Levi Michael was 4-for-6 with two runs and three RBI for his first career postseason hits and his third career four-hit game.
- Ben Bunting was 2-for-5 with two runs and three RBI for his fifth multi-hit game in the last six outings. Bunting's bases-clearing double in the third matched his career high with three RBI for the third time.
- With five strikeouts Saturday, Alex White moved into second place on the Tar Heels' career list with 293. He surpassed Michael Hoog (289) and is 32 Ks behind Andrew Miller's 325 from 2004-06.
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