University of North Carolina Athletics
Rain Shortens Friday Afternoon's Scrimmage
September 30, 2011 | Baseball
Sept. 30, 2011
By Joe Bray
Chapel Hill, N.C.- The Blue and Navy squads played to a 7-7 tie as a sudden, intense rain storm halted play in the middle of the seventh inning on Friday afternoon at Boshamer Stadium.
Navy took a 5-0 lead with three runs in the second and two more in the top of the fifth before Blue stormed back with seven runs in the bottom of the fifth. Navy then tied the score at 7-7 on Jeff Bouton's two-run homer in the top of the sixth.
lue out hit Navy by a 10-9 margin while each team committed an error.
The next closed scrimmage will be this Saturday at the Bosh. TarHeelBlue will have exclusive coverage of all of Carolina's scrimmages.
The always-fun Fall World Series will begin on Monday, Oct. 10. There will be two best-of-three series. If a different squad each wins a series there will be a one game final for the title. All FWS games are free and open to the public.
Scrimmage Highlights: Jeff Bouton's two-run homer to left that tied the score in the sixth. The homer was Bouton's first of the fall...Cody Stiles threw four scoreless innings for the Navy squad.
Scrimmage Lowlight: For the second time this fall rain shortened a scrimmage. Most of the day was cloudy with some bursts of sunshine before the sudden onset of rain in the middle of the seventh.
