University of North Carolina Athletics
No. 4 Tar Heels Head To Charlotte To Face Gamecocks
April 11, 2017 | Baseball
CHARLOTTE --- No. 4 North Carolina returns to the Queen City for the second straight year to face border rival South Carolina Tuesday at 7 p.m. at BB&T Ballpark. Carolina is 26-6 after a record-setting sweep at Boston College last weekend in Chestnut Hill. No. 8 South Carolina is 21-10 following a 6-1 win over Vanderbilt Saturday night in Columbia.
| UNC Probable Starter | South Carolina Probable Starter | |
| Tuesday | RHP Tyler Baum (4-0, 2.22 ERA) | RHP Cody Morris (2-0, 1.62 ERA) |
AT A GLANCE
Records: North Carolina 26-6, South Carolina 21-10
Rankings: North Carolina is ranked in all of the national polls, with a high of No. 4. South Carolina is ranked as high as No. 8.
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NORTH CAROLINA-SOUTH CAROLINA SERIES HISTORY
• North Carolina is 63-35-1 all-time against South Carolina in a series that dates to 1903. Tuesday will mark the second year in a row the two teams have met in the regular season, something that hadn't happened since 2004.
• Carolina won last year's game in Charlotte 15-0 in front of 10,205 people, the most fans ever to watch a regular season college baseball game in the state of North Carolina.
• Prior to last season, the Tar Heels and Gamecocks last met in 2013 when UNC won a thrilling NCAA Chapel Hill Super Regional in three games to advance to the College World Series.
• Carolina also triumphed in the 2007 NCAA Chapel Hill Super Regional to advance to a second straight CWS. UNC's 9-4 win in game three was the final game in “old” Boshamer Stadium prior to the major 2008 renovation project.
• South Carolina head coach Chad Holbrook is in his fifth year at the helm in Columbia. Prior to his time with the Gamecocks, Holbrook spent 15 seasons at UNC as an assistant coach. He was also a four-year letterwinner as a Tar Heel player from 1990-93, earning second-team All-ACC honors as a senior. Holbrook still ranks sixth all-time at Carolina with 273 career hits and second with 98 career stolen bases.
• South Carolina director of baseball operations Tyson Lusk is a 2009 graduate of UNC who was head student manager as an undergrad before serving as the team's equipment and clubhouse manager.
QUICK HITS
• Carolina ranks second in the ACC and sixth nationally in pitching with a staff ERA of 2.54.
• The Tar Heels established a new school record for runs in a three-game ACC series by scoring 48 times in the sweep at BC. The previous mark was 45 at Duke in 2002.
• UNC started ACC play with series wins over divisional foes Virginia, Georgia Tech and Miami. This marks the first time the Tar Heels have won series against those three in the same season since 2009.
• The Tar Heels swept Florida State for the second time in program history and the first time ever in Tallahassee.
• Redshirt freshman closer Josh Hiatt has 10 saves, tops in the ACC and fourth-most nationally. Hiatt is already tied for eighth on the UNC single-season saves list.
• Junior J.B. Bukauskas ranks in the top 10 nationally in strikeouts (fourth, 75) and K/9 (ninth, 13.24). He was named to the D1Baseball and Rawlings/Perfect Game Midseason All-America first teams last week, earning Midseason Top Pitcher honors from D1Baseball.
• Freshman Gianluca Dalatri leads the ACC in innings pitched with 54.1 in eight starts, an average of almost seven innings per outing.
• Carolina allowed five runs or fewer in each of the first 23 games of the 2017 season. That was the longest such streak in 106 seasons. The Tar Heels went 25 straight without allowing more than five across the 1910 and 1911 campaigns.
• Mike Fox recorded his 800th win at Carolina on Feb. 19 against Kentucky. He is UNC's all-time winningest coach and has over 1,300 total wins in his 34 year career.
