Tarheels Squeak By Navy
Second 1-0 Game In Row, Tarheels Come Out Ahead This Time

It wasn't pretty, in fact, it looked a lot like the game from yesterday, except this time, the Tarheels did just enough to win. With no real chances until the 6th inning, when Sinkbeil tried tagging up from 3rd on a shallow fly ball hit to the right fielder, and was thrown out at the plate, the Tarheels were again struggling up at bat. Thankfully, again, they got another dominating pitching performance, this time from Alexander, who actually managed to get the win unlike Silva yesterday. "This series was pathetic as far as our hitting went, I have no idea why it was so piss poor, but it was. We need our hitters to refocus in there and get ready for Tulane, because I will guarantee, there's no chance they will only score one run, even against Kelton. We play like this, and we will get completely rolled."  were manager Stone's words after this game.

Game Stats here

Devenney Out 2-3 Weeks

Tarheels starting left fielder Justin Devenney will be out 2-3 weeks with a sprained left forearm which he suffered in first inning of last night's game against Navy when he was sliding into second base trying to break up a double play. He was successful in breaking up the double play at least. 

Tarheels Upset by Navy
Lose 1-0 in 12 Innings

After their 9-1 record in February boosting them to the number 6 rank in the country, it looked like the Tarheels would have no problems with the 124th ranked Navy Midshipmen. And they didn't. At least on the pitching side of the ball. It was the hitting that completely let them down tonight. With chances in a few innings, the Tarheels completely dropped the ball, handing the Midshipmen a huge upset win. In the 4th inning, with the bases loaded and 2 outs, Tarheels catcher Kolb struck out ending the threat, and then again with two runners on base this time in the 7th inning and two outs, Kolb hit a ball to the top of the fence, only to have it robbed by the Navy right fielder Groom. The Tarheels just could never get the clutch hit. Then in the top of the 12th, with a runner on 3rd and two outs, Navy first baseman Duvall, hit a pitch off of Tarheels pitcher Donnelly that shortstop Adam Brashear picked up and threw over to first, only for Duvall to be safe by half a step, giving Navy the first and only run of the game. Manager Stone was pretty calm considering the situation in his postgame comments, "We just couldn't hit tonight, we got underneath everything. And when we needed that clutch hit, we just couldn't get it. But you know what, it's going to happen, we just have to bounce back tomorrow and put this behind us. My only regret is that Silva couldn't get the win tonight, he pitched his ass off for us and we didn't do shit for him." 

Game Stats here

Tarheels Win Again, 4-2
End February with 9-1 Record

Another slow start to this one until the 4th inning, when Florie hit a one out double that he tried stretching into a triple and had, but the cutoff man overthrew 3rd base, allowing Florie to score and give the Tarheels a 1-0 lead, Kolb would ground out before the Tarheels put together 3 hits, finished off with an Xavier Erstad 2 RBI double. On the mound it was the same old thing for Tarheels ace Josh Kelton, until the 8th inning where he allowed 2 runs on 3 hits before being pulled. After the game Kelton had this to say, "Everything feels really good right now, all 5 of my pitches are working and I'm getting hitters to chase my pitches, it's great right now, but I have to make sure that I'm pitching this way when it really counts, which is in the ACC tournament and the regionals, if I can do that, it gives us an even greater chance of going to the College World Series."

Game Stats here

Tarheels Exact Revenge
19 Hits in Destruction of Mississippi State

"What can you really say about this one? 7 runs, 19 hits, and no runs against.... we kicked their ass, they played terribly in every single way other than defense. This won't happen tomorrow, or at least I wouldn't expect it to, if I were their coach, they would make sure never to lose a game by more than 3 runs, ever. Anyways, our guys hit the ball. It was good to see after our loss yesterday where we quite frankly hit like shit." And boy did the Tarheels ever hit today, there were 5 Tarheels with more than one hit and 6 different hitters who got an RBI in a complete team effort, a team effort to avenge the team's first loss of the season just 3 days ago. 

Game Stats here

Tarheels Perfect Record Ruined
Wichita State Defeats Tarheels 4-2

It started out just like half of the Tarheels' games so far this season, both teams struggling up at-bat, after a few innings, the Tarheels finally get a couple of runners on, but this time it changed. There was no clutch hits. After Wichita State took a 1-0 lead, the Tarheels came up in the top of the 5th and were lead off with a Kolb single, that was then followed up by a Johnny Erstad double off of the top of the fence, making it runners on 2nd and 3rd with none out. Moehler popped out to the catcher, Xavier Erstad struck out and then Snead grounded out to end the inning. With no runs! After that moment, momentum just completely shifted to the Shockers side, as they scored 3 more runs to give them a 4-0 lead, and with their ace McLintock on the mound, the Shockers switched it into shut down mode, allowing the weak singles, but nothing major as they became the first team to defeat the Tarheels this season.

Game Stats here

Original Layout Designed By Freak93, Redesigned by Crayzman