University of North Carolina Athletics
Carolina Baseball Monday Notebook
May 10, 2010 | Baseball
May 10, 2010
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. --- Nationally ranked North Carolina will look to build on their season-high seven game win streak hosting one midweek contest against College of Charleston Wednesday. The Tar Heels and Cougars will meet at 6 p.m. at Boshamer Stadium Wednesday.
College of Charleston (35-13, 19-8 Socon) is fresh off a series win over The Citadel this past weekend. The Cougars rank second in the Southern Conference and will play USC Upstate Tuesday before making the trip to Chapel Hill.
Carolina will start junior Greg Holt (2-2, 6.37 ERA) opposite the Cougars' Matt Pegler (2-0, 7.04 ERA) Wednesday evening. The meeting will just be the second in the teams' histories, as Carolina defeated College of Charleston 12-7 in 2005.
The Cougars present a balanced attack with a .314 team batting average, 5.55 staff ERA and .960 team fielding percentage. Junior Cole Rakar's .373 batting average and 18 stolen bases lead College of Charleston.
The Cougars have yet to challenge an ACC team this season, but post impressive wins over the likes of Coastal Carolina, Alabama and Elon.
Carolina is riding a seven-game win streak into this week after registering four wins capped by their first league sweep over Wake Forest this weekend. The Tar Heels feature a solid attack with a .313 team batting average, 4.33 staff ERA and .968 fielding percentage.
Carolina will travel to league leading and No. 1 Virginia this weekend for a huge divisional series. Before closing the books on last week's action, TarHeelBlue.com takes a look back at the week that was for the Diamond Heels:
NOTING THE WEEK OF MAY 4 - MAY 9
• UNC posted a 4-0 record on the week that featured convincing victories over Elon and a series sweep of Wake Forest. The Tar Heels improved to 11-13 in the ACC with six league games left this season.
• The Tar Heels posted a .349 team batting average en route to scoring 50 runs this week. Carolina notched six home runs, ten doubles and three triples to post a .582 slugging percentage. The Tar Heels added ten stolen bases in 12 attempts.
• Levi Michael registered a .500 batting average on the week with a pair of home runs, three RBI and three stolen bases. The sophomore is currently in the midst of a career-best and team season-high 15 game hitting streak.
• Jacob Stallings continues to impress behind the plate, but was even more impressive offensively this week. The sophomore notched a .500 batting average on the week with one home run, four doubles and six RBI. Stallings belted just his second career home run, a grand slam, to launch Carolina to victory in the series finale Sunday.
• Ryan Graepel and Ben Bunting each posted six hits this week as well. Graepel notched two home runs and has hit three long balls in his last six games. Bunting was a triple shy of the cycle Sunday as he belted his first home run of the season. The juniors were equally impressive in the field, perfect in a combined 25 chances.
• Tommy Coyle added a pair of stolen bases to raise his total to 12 swipes on the season. Freshman Josh Leemhuis registered his first collegiate hit and RBI in a 17-7 thrashing of Elon Tuesday.
• Carolina's starting pitching was strong posting two wins. Matt Harvey pitched six solid innings and struck out five, all looking, in an18-5 win Friday night. Patrick Johnson was 1-0 in two starts this week and he struck out a season-high eight batters in an 8-4 win Sunday.
• Colin Bates was spectacular in relief posting a 2-0 record out of the bullpen. The junior posts two wins and a save in his last three outings allowing just one run over his last 10.2 innings pitched.
• Chris Munnelly pitched a career-best 6.2 innings and struck out a career-high eight batters Saturday. Munnelly was impressive in just his fifth career start Saturday.
• Two Tar Heels concluded their undergraduate academic careers Sunday. Mike Cavasinni and Colin Bates each attended commencement Sunday morning prior to the series finale against Wake Forest.
