University of North Carolina Athletics
No. 3 Tar Heels Start Final Push With Midweek Pair
May 9, 2017 | Baseball
CHAPEL HILL --- No. 3 North Carolina returns from a six-day final exam break to host in-state foes Davidson and UNC Asheville Tuesday and Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Boshamer Stadium. Carolina beat Richmond 5-4 in its last game action on May 2 to improve to 37-9. Davidson is 24-21 on the year after taking two of three from Saint Louis last weekend. UNCA dropped two of three to Radford over the weekend to fall to 19-26.
| Video | UNC Probable Starters | Opponent Probable Starters | |
| Tuesday • 6 p.m. | ACCNE | RHP Tyler Baum (4-0, 2.72 ERA) | RHP Josh Hudson (1-3, 6.82 ERA) |
| Wednesday • 6 p.m. | ACCNE | RHP Bo Weiss (0-0, 2.57 ERA) | RHP Danny Wilson (0-1, 7.15 ERA) |
AT A GLANCE
Records: North Carolina 37-9, Davidson 24-21, UNC Asheville 19-26
Rankings: North Carolina is ranked No. 3 in all of the national polls. Davidson and Asheville are unranked.
Video: Tuesday | Wednesday
Audio: GoHeels.com
On The Web: GoHeels.com • Twitter: @DiamondHeels
NORTH CAROLINA-DAVIDSON SERIES HISTORY
• North Carolina is 88-22 all-time against Davidson. With 110 all-time meetings, Davidson is the most common UNC opponent that has never been a member of the ACC.
• Carolina has played Davidson each year since Mike Fox took over in Chapel Hill, and the Tar Heels are 17-1 against the Wildcats under Fox.
• UNC won last year's meeting 10-2 behind four hits from Brandon Riley.
• Davidson scored its first win in the series since 1987 and its first in Chapel Hill since 1972 with a 12-11 victory in 2015. Carolina trailed 10-0 and 12-2 before rallying with nine runs in the final two innings.
• Prior to 2015, UNC had won 27 straight over Davidson overall, with the Wildcats last winning on April 2, 1987.
NORTH CAROLINA-UNC ASHEVILLE SERIES HISTORY
• North Carolina is 7-1 all-time against UNC Asheville in a series that began in 1996.
• Asheville grabbed its first win over Carolina last season in Chapel Hill, 3-2.
• Prior to 2015, the Tar Heels and Bulldogs last met in 2012. Carolina scored wins in Asheville and Chapel Hill. The return game was played at McCormick Field, home of the Asheville Tourists, and stands as the only game in the series to occur outside of Chapel Hill.
QUICK HITS
• Carolina is second in the ACC and fourth nationally in pitching with a staff ERA of 2.64.
• With a sweep of Clemson, UNC has won its first eight ACC series for the first time in program history. The 2008 team holds the record for most league series wins with nine.
• Carolina became the first team to sweep Clemson and Florida State in the same season since 2004, when Georgia Tech did the same double. No other team has swept both the Tigers and the Seminoles since FSU joined the ACC.
• The Tar Heels swept Florida State for the second time in program history and the first time ever in Tallahassee.
• 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.
• Junior Brian Miller recently reached a career milestone with his 50th multi-hit game as a Tar Heel. The outfielder from Raleigh did it in style recording four hits and driving in three runs in the 11-2 win over Elon on April 25. A career .317 hitter, Miller is 24 hits shy of 200.
• 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. The 20-5 win over South Carolina pushed the four-game total to 68 runs, the most over four games since 1987.
• Redshirt freshman closer Josh Hiatt has 13 saves, second in the ACC and fifth-most nationally. Hiatt is already alone in fifth on the UNC single-season saves list.
• Junior J.B. Bukauskas ranks in the top 20 nationally in strikeouts (12th, 96), hits allowed per nine innings (10th, 5.27), wins (11th, 8), WHIP (15th, 0.893) and ERA (13th, 1.51). He was named to the D1Baseball and Rawlings/Perfect Game Midseason All-America first teams, earning Midseason Top Pitcher honors from D1Baseball.
• Freshman Gianluca Dalatri is third in the ACC in innings pitched with 76.0 in 11 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.
