University of North Carolina Athletics
Tar Heels Hold Their First Scrimmage Of The Spring
January 29, 2012 | Baseball
Jan. 28, 2012
By Joe Bray
Chapel Hill, N.C.- The North Carolina Tar Heels held their first scrimmage of the Spring on a beautiful Saturday afternoon at Boshamer Stadium. The visiting Tar squad scored a run in the top of the tenth to take a 5-4 win over the Heel squad.
The Tar squad scored two runs in the top of the first off Kent Emanuel before Emanuel settled down to throw several scoreless innings. The Heels team then came back with solo runs in the third and fifth innings to tie the score at 2-2 before a two-run Jacob Stallings home run to left put the Heels up 4-2 in the seventh.
The Tar squad rallied with two runs in the top of the ninth to tie the scrimmage at 4-4, then scored the winning run in the tenth. Tommy Coyle led off the inning with a single, then a Michael Russell double moved him to third. Cody Stubbs followed with a sacrifice fly to deep center that drove in Coyle for the winning run.
The Heels will scrimmage again on Sunday and Monday. TarHeelBlue will have exclusive coverage of all of Carolina's preseason scrimmages.
Scrimmage Highlights: Jacob Stallings drilled a two-run homer in the seventh...Bradley Morton made a great running catch of a Josh Ake fly to deep left...the presence of a host of former Tar Heels who were in town for the First Pitch Dinner.
