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Photo by: Joe Bray
Baseball Loses Series To Virginia Tech
April 2, 2022 | Baseball
CHAPEL HILL – The Diamond Heels dropped game two of their three-game series with Virginia Tech on Saturday at Boshamer Stadium, 7-3.
With the loss, No. 18 North Carolina falls to 19-8 overall and 5-6 in the ACC while Virginia Tech improved to 17-6 overall and 5-4 in the conference.
Carolina pitchers issued 11 walks, including three with the bases loaded. Four Hokie hitters that drew a base on balls scored as did one batter that was hit by a pitch.
Virginia Tech scored five runs between the third and sixth inning and led 5-2 heading into the seventh. The Hokies added two runs in the eighth before Carolina scratched one final run across in the ninth.
Drue Hackenberg (5-0) scattered four hits across six innings and struck out for to earn the win, while UNC starter Max Carlson (1-1) was tagged with his first loss, allowing three runs and walking three in two innings pitched.
NOTABLES
• Angel Zarate double reached on an error in the bottom of the first inning to extend his on-base streak to 50 games.
• Mac Horvath recorded his fourth two-hit game of the year.
• Johnny Castagnozzi and Mikey Madej collected two hits each for the Daimons Heels. It was Castagnozzi's 11 multi-hit game of the season and Madej's second.
• The Diamond Heels issued a season-high 11 walks, their most since walking 13 at Virginia in 2016 (April 17).
• UNC pitchers struck out 14 Virginia Tech batters, one shy of its season-high of 15 against Miami (March 27). It was the 16th time this season that Carolina pitchers fanned 10 or more hitters.
HOW IT HAPPENED
• Virginia Tech scored three runs in the top of the third inning, two on bases loaded walks and one on an RBI-single by Tanner Schobel (VT 3, UNC 0).
• Zarate scored Carolina's first run in the bottom of the fourth on a groundout (VT 3, UNC 1).
• Jack Hurley doubled down the right field line in the top of the fifth to plate Gavin Cross (VT 4, UNC 1).
• Tackett scored on a bases loaded walk to Hurley in the top of the sixth (VT 5, UNC 1).
• Danny Serretti scored on Tomas Frick's ground out to second in the bottom of the sixth (VT 5, UNC 2).
• The Hokies scored twice in the ninth, first on Schobel's RBI-single, then on Eduardo Malinowski's ground out (VT 7, UNC 2).
• Serretti lifted a sacrifice fly to right field to plate Mikey Madej in the bottom of the ninth (VT 7, UNC 3).
UP NEXT
North Carolina and Virginia Tech will wrap up their three-game series on Sunday, April 3, at 1 p.m.
With the loss, No. 18 North Carolina falls to 19-8 overall and 5-6 in the ACC while Virginia Tech improved to 17-6 overall and 5-4 in the conference.
Carolina pitchers issued 11 walks, including three with the bases loaded. Four Hokie hitters that drew a base on balls scored as did one batter that was hit by a pitch.
Virginia Tech scored five runs between the third and sixth inning and led 5-2 heading into the seventh. The Hokies added two runs in the eighth before Carolina scratched one final run across in the ninth.
Drue Hackenberg (5-0) scattered four hits across six innings and struck out for to earn the win, while UNC starter Max Carlson (1-1) was tagged with his first loss, allowing three runs and walking three in two innings pitched.
NOTABLES
• Angel Zarate double reached on an error in the bottom of the first inning to extend his on-base streak to 50 games.
• Mac Horvath recorded his fourth two-hit game of the year.
• Johnny Castagnozzi and Mikey Madej collected two hits each for the Daimons Heels. It was Castagnozzi's 11 multi-hit game of the season and Madej's second.
• The Diamond Heels issued a season-high 11 walks, their most since walking 13 at Virginia in 2016 (April 17).
• UNC pitchers struck out 14 Virginia Tech batters, one shy of its season-high of 15 against Miami (March 27). It was the 16th time this season that Carolina pitchers fanned 10 or more hitters.
HOW IT HAPPENED
• Virginia Tech scored three runs in the top of the third inning, two on bases loaded walks and one on an RBI-single by Tanner Schobel (VT 3, UNC 0).
• Zarate scored Carolina's first run in the bottom of the fourth on a groundout (VT 3, UNC 1).
• Jack Hurley doubled down the right field line in the top of the fifth to plate Gavin Cross (VT 4, UNC 1).
• Tackett scored on a bases loaded walk to Hurley in the top of the sixth (VT 5, UNC 1).
• Danny Serretti scored on Tomas Frick's ground out to second in the bottom of the sixth (VT 5, UNC 2).
• The Hokies scored twice in the ninth, first on Schobel's RBI-single, then on Eduardo Malinowski's ground out (VT 7, UNC 2).
• Serretti lifted a sacrifice fly to right field to plate Mikey Madej in the bottom of the ninth (VT 7, UNC 3).
UP NEXT
North Carolina and Virginia Tech will wrap up their three-game series on Sunday, April 3, at 1 p.m.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Drue Hackenberg (5-0)
L: Carlson, Max (1-1)
Batting:
2B: Jack Hurley 1
RBI: Gavin Cross 1 ; Tanner Schobel 2 ; Jack Hurley 2 ; Eduardo Malinowski 1 ; Cade Hunter 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Nick Biddison 2 ; Gavin Cross 1 ; Sam Tackett 2 ; Carson DeMartini 2
SB: Cade Hunter 1
HBP: Sam Tackett 1
Batting:
RBI: Serretti, Danny 1 ; Frick, Tomas 2
SF: Serretti, Danny 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Zarate, Angel 1 ; Serretti, Danny 1 ; Madej, Mikey 1
CS: Honeycutt, Vance 1
HBP: Castagnozzi, Johnny 1
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