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Post Game Notes
June 7, 2009 | Baseball
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- With Sunday's 9-3 win over East Carolina, North Carolina becomes the first Atlantic Coast Conference team to reach the College World Series four straight years and the 10th different program to make four consecutive trips to Omaha. Miami made four straight trips on two occasions before joining the ACC. The Tar Heels' four straight appearances are the longest active streak in the nation.
- The other nine teams to make at least four appearances in a row are: Oklahoma State, Northern Colorado, Miami (two times), Southern California, Oklahoma, Texas (three times), Stanford, Arizona State and Maine. Oklahoma State holds the record with seven straight appearances from 1981-97, and Texas (2002-05) is the most recent team to make four in a row.
- North Carolina had made eight all-time College World Series appearances: 1960, 1966, 1978, 1989, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.
- This is the first time in Atlantic Coast Conference history that a member school played in a football bowl game, the men's basketball Final Four and the baseball College World Series in the same season. The Tar Heels also won the national title in women's soccer and advanced to the national championship game in men's soccer and women's lacrosse.
- With Sunday's victory, Carolina improved to 18-1 at home in the postseason over the past four years, including a 6-1 record in the Super Regional round since 2007. The Tar Heels are 8-3 all-time in five Super Regional appearances.
- With the victory, Carolina is now 78-52 all-time in the NCAA Tournament, 43-20 under Mike Fox and 31-8 in the postseason since the start of the 2006 tourney.
- The Tar Heels are now 46-25 all-time against the Pirates, including a 6-1 mark in the NCAA Tournament.
- Carolina's five-run sixth inning was its third frame of five or more innings in the postseason. The Tar Heels, who totaled 12 runs in the sixth inning of the Super Regional, also scored seven in the sixth against the Pirates Saturday and after scoring seven times versus Kansas in the regional final.
- The Tar Heels posted 13 hits for their sixth straight game with double-digit base hits, including each NCAA Tournament outing. Carolina has at least 10 hits in 10 of 11 games.
- Carolina pitchers combined for nine strikeouts Sunday and totaled 47 strikeouts in just 35 innings against East Carolina this year.
- Sunday's crowd of 4,271 brought the two-game Super Regional attendance total to 8,587. Saturday's attendance of 4,316 was a Boshamer Stadium record, and the two games versus the Pirates this weekend marked the top two attendance totals in stadium history.
Individual Notes
- Adam Warren earned his fifth NCAA Tournament win and his third that clinched a postseason series for Carolina Sunday. He is tied for second in school history in NCAA wins and earned the victory in clinchers in the 2008 Cary Super Regional, the 2009 Chapel Hill Regional and 2009 Chapel Hill Super Regional.
- Warren's win was the 31st of his career, which is second in school history behind Robert Woodard.
- Warren has won three straight starts and has combined for 23 strikeouts versus just two walks in wins over Duke, Kansas and East Carolina.
- Garrett Gore posted career highs of four hits and four runs scored in his final career game at Boshamer Stadium. He homered in his final at-bat for his career-best sixth home run and his third of the postseason. Gore is batting .478 (11-23) with nine runs and 10 RBI in the NCAA tourney.
- Kyle Seager jump-started the scoring Sunday with a two-run single and has a team-best 11 RBI in NCAA Tournament. He is batting .391 (9-23) in the postseason.
- Dustin Ackley hit a three-run home run in the sixth to extend a 19-game hitting streak in NCAA play dating to Carolina's final four games of the 2007 College World Series. He has a hit in 23 of 28 career postseason games and has 13 multi-hit efforts in NCAA play. Ackley is batting .545 (12-22) with nine RBI in the 2009 NCAA Tournament.
- Dustin Ackley's sixth-inning, three-run home run was his 22nd of the season, which is tied for third in school history and is just two off Devy Bell's record of 24 set in 1986.
- Dustin Ackley set a single-season total bases record with his home run Sunday for a new total of 194, surpassing the 190 by Chris Maples in 2002. He is also tied for fourth on the single season average list (.410), tied for eighth in runs (73), sixth in hits (103), tied for third in home runs (22), third in extra-base hits (43), 10th in RBI (70) and tied for sixth in walks (50).
- Mike Cavasinni was 2-for-3 in Sunday's win for his second straight multi-hit game. After playing just one game over the past two postseasons due to injury, Cavasinni has returned to form with a .429 average (6-14) with five runs over five games in the 2009 NCAA Tournament.
- Ben Bunting singled in the fifth to extend a career-best hitting streak to nine games.
- Dustin Ackley (six games), Mark Fleury (six games), Ryan Graepel (six games), Kyle Seager (six games) and Garrett Gore (five games) each extended hitting streaks to at least five games.
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