University of North Carolina Athletics
Tar Heels Travel To Virginia Tech For Weekend Series
March 21, 2019 | Baseball
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Virginia Tech HISTORY
• Under Mike Fox, UNC has never lost a series against VT and are 38-4 overall.
• Last year UNC swept VT at home to clinch the Coastal Division and No. 1 seed in the ACC Tournament. The Heels outscored VT 26-4 during that series.Â
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Quick Notes
• UNC has scored 42% of its runs in the first 3 innings this year (66 of 157).
• UNC is No. 3 in the ACC and No. 3 in the country for walks as a team (142). Florida State leads the ACC and country in walks with 150.Â
• Busch is No. 2 in the ACC & No. 3 in the country in walks (26). He trails Logan Wyatt (31)
• Austin Love is 1st in the ACC and 7th in the country in appearances (10). He is also tied for second in the ACC with 4 wins.Â
• Michael Busch leads the ACC in runs scored (27) and is 10th in the country. Dylan Harris ranks 3rd in the ACC with 24 runs scored.Â
• Dylan Harris has now reached base in 18 consecutive games, a career high, and longest overall streak on the team this season. Harris has not reached in only one game this season (NC A&T).
Over the last 7 games, freshman Danny Serretti (.400) and Aaron Sabato (.393) lead the Tar Heels in batting average.Â
• Since ACC play started 9 games ago, Sabato leads the team in batting average (.387), home runs (4), RBI (10), total bases (27), slugging percentage (.871), T-1st in hits (12), T-2nd in runs scored (6), T-2nd in doubles (3).
• Against Miami on 3/17, Sabato became the first Tar Heel freshman to hit two home runs in a game since Seth Baldwin accomplished the feat 10 years ago.
• The 3 home runs against Miami on 3/17 are the most by UNC this year in one game.
• The last time that UNC started 2-4 in the ACC was in 2010.Â
• The Tar Heels are on the on the road for 3 of the next 4 ACC weekends. They go to Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech and Notre Dame over the next month.Â
• Coming in to the series against Miami, Michael Busch was only hitting .278 on the season. Against the Canes he hit .417 over the three-game series.Â
• On 5/12/19 against Gardner-Webb, Danny Serretti was the first Tar Heel to collect five hits in one game since 2017 and the first freshman to do so since 2014.Â
• Over the first 17 games, Caden O'Brien had 7 apps with a 6.75 ERA giving up 12 hits and 11 runs. In the last 5 games, he has 4 app, a 1.80 ERA giving up only 1 hit and 1 run.
