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Crucial Stretch Carries Postseason Implications for UNC
The North Carolina baseball
team will play conference
road series at Virginia and
Duke in the next two weeks,
By T. Nolan Hayes
Sports Editor
What’s done is done.
The North Carolina baseball team
knows it. But coach Mike Fox and his
players had to find a way to fix it
It was the team’s 4-8 start in ACC
play. The Tar
Heels began the
journey out of the
hole they dug for
themselves by
sweeping
Maryland at
home during the
weekend to get to
North Carolina
at East Carolina
Today, 7 p.m.
Harrington Field
within one game of .500 in the league.
“We’ve had a little pressure on us
knowing what we’ve got to do in the
league,” Fox said after his team finished
off the Tenapins 23-8 on Sunday. “The
guys know where we are, and we’re
kind of disappointed that we were 4-8.
“We’ve still got to continue to get bet
ter. We can play better.”
The Tar Heels (33-9) moved up to
fifth place from seventh on the strength
of their weekend victories. More good
news for North Carolina lies in the fact
that the path leading to the top half of
the ACC standings won’t get excep
tionally rough for a couple of weeks.
The Tar Heels play Virginia and
Duke in the next two weeks before clos
ing out their ACC season against
Florida State. UNC swept Virginia and
Duke last season, and the two teams
now stand seventh and eighth in the
league, respectively.
But North Carolina’s plans of getting
out the brooms twice more aren’t fool
proof. For one thing, the Blue Devils
and Cavaliers are more talented than
they’ve been in recent years. And sec
ond, both series are on the road, where
the Tar Heels are 0-6 in ACC games.
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North Carolina right fielder Matt McCay went 7-for-11 with eight RBI
in the Tar Heels' three-game sweep of Maryland this past weekend.
“Realistically you don’t look to go
against any of these teams on the road
and sweep them,” Fox said. “You can
say that’s what you want to do - you
certainly would like to -but it just does
n’t happen in this league. It’s a hard
thing to do.”
The Cavaliers dropped to 5-10 in the
conference after getting swept on the
road by Georgia Tech during the week
end. But Virginia did manage to defeat
Florida State, which has spent time at
No. 1 this season, at home April 2.
Duke sits in eighth place in the ACC
at 4-11 but handed first-place Georgia
Tech its only two losses in the league
back in late March. That, coupled with
Virginia’s win against the Seminoles,
will keep the Tar Heels from becoming
too confident.
“Any team can beat anybody in this
league on any given day,” UNC pitcher
Ryan Snare said. “They say Maryland,
Duke and Virginia are the weaker
teams, but once you get in between the
lines, the records are thrown out, and
they want to win just as bad as you.
“If you don’t play well, they’re going
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