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BY POWELL LATIMER
SPORTS EDITOR
Takin’ care of business was the
MO for North Carolina in Can- last
weekend.
A calm, cool, relaxed UNC team
dispatched Coastal Carolina with
two knockout blows and never
trailed during the two games of the
Can- super regional.
In both games, the Tar Heels set
the tone early, opening up with two
runs in the first inning Saturday
and a whopping six runs in the sec
ond on Sunday.
Just as they
had done in the
regional, UNC
used the wide
power alleys
afforded by its
adopted home
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CCU 4
UNC 9
UNC 14
CCU 4
at Cary's USA Baseball Training
Complex to string base hit after
base hit into RBI after RBI, and
Coastal Carolina's defenders were
by no means able to cover the
field.
CCU's fielding unit racked up
nine errors in the two games,
including five from second base
man Noel Rico. Rico was so frus
trated by the end of the super
regional that he even gave a tip of
his cap to the fans after making the
most routine of throws to first base
for a put-out.
CCU also struggled to get any
Six Tar-Heels taken in MLB draft
Federowicz, Fedroff go back-to-back
BY MIKE EHRLICH
SENIOR WRITER
Most aspiring Major League
Baseball players dream all their
lives about the day they'll be draft
ed. They'll wait by the phones,
hear their name called and then
celebrate w-ith family and friends.
North Carolina's Tim Federowicz
went a different route. He spent all
morning in the hospital looking like
a pincushion for IVs while doctors
tried to rid him of a nasty virus he
caught the night before.
“It was pretty bad," Federowicz
said with a smile. “But my room
mate TYler (Trice) text-messaged
me, and my brother called my
mom. 1 was still kind of out of it
they gave me a lot of drugs in the
hospital —and I was half-asleep
when I heard it. I was able to feel
better about it that night."
All conditions aside, the news
was a dream come true for the
recent draftee, as well as for five
other UNC players. Draft-eligible
sophomore Tim Fedroff was the
first Tar Heel off the board, going in
the seventh round to the Cleveland
Indians.
It took 231 overall picks to get
to Fedroff, but it wouldn't be long
until he was joined as a draftee.
With the very next pick in the
draft, the Boston Red Sox selected
A slightly different shade of blue
Lacrosse players tour with U.S. team
BY ANNA KIM
STAFF WRITER
The transition between Carolina
blue and red, white and blue is any
thing but seamless.
Amber Falcone and Erica
LaGrow can attest to that.
“Usually this time of year you
come off your collegiate season and
take a couple weeks off," LaGrow
said. “But you kind of have to jump
right back into it."
The two Tar Heels are part of the
18-player U.S. National Womens
Lacrosse Team, with UNC teammate
Kelly Taylor among the six alternates
selected from the
U.S. Elite and
Developmental
teams.
Falcone, a ris
ing senior, was
the only player
selected from the
developmental
team to join the
touring team,
the youngest on
the active roster.
The team is
comprised of 18
Former Tar Heel
Erica LaGrow
was selected as
a member of
the U.S. team.
players trawling to Prague in hopes
of adding another title as the five
time IFWLA World Champions.
Falcone wrapped up her season
with All-America honors from
four organizations. But the honor
of being named on the national
team, Falcone said, was completely
unexpected.
*1 don’t even know how to
describe it,” Falcone said. “My
teammates are unbelievable. Just
being alongside them for the first
time was amazing."
And it was alongside her team
mates that Falcone experienced her
kind of offensive rhythm going, as
they were held scoreless until the
fourth inning Saturday- and the
seventh Sunday.
“Looking at it from the outfield,
I felt like the more the errors and
close calls were coming in the heat,
it was just too much mentally for
our guys," CCU centerfielder David
Sappelt said.
While part of Coastal Carolina's
problems could have stemmed
from the 100-degree-plus heat that
baked Cary during the weekend,
odds are that the heat brought by
Tar Heel pitchers Alex White and
Adam Warren proved much more
bothersome.
White scattered eight hits
through seven innings of work with
six strikeouts and three earned
runs Saturday, but, more impres
sively, 72 of his 105 pitches on the
day were strikes - almost a 69 per
cent rate.
“That was important for us,"
UNC coach Mike Fox said. “I think
we may have pushed him too much,
sending him out there in the eighth
... It was an important strong per
formance from Alex, given the cir
cumstances with the heat and the
big game."
On Sunday, CCU batters had no
more success against Warren, who
pitched six innings of shutout base
ball while the Tar Heel bats racked
up 12 runs before CCU even got on
Federowicz.
"That's pretty cool," Federowicz
said. “Me and Tim are very close
not only with our names —but
we're real good friends, and it's
pretty cool to find out we were
back-to-back."
It wound up being a banner day
for Federowicz’s Chapel Hill home,
as his two Tar Heel pitcher room
mates also were taken by major
league teams.
Rob Wooten was drafted in
the 13th round by the Milwaukee
Brewers, and Tyler Trice went to
the Colorado Rockies in the 21st.
Pending contracts, pitcher Adam
Warren can remain teammates
with Fedroff in years to come. In
the 36th round, Warren found out
that, like Fedroff, he was chosen by
the Indians.
Rounding out the Tar Heel selec
tions was Seth Williams, who was
drafted in the 40th round by the
New- York Mets.
“It's a credit to them, and we
know that's part of having good
players," UNC coach Mike Fox
said after watching those six play
ers help lead the Tar Heels back to
Omaha.
“The Major League draft is out
there, and the timing of it is not
good, but it's a credit to those guys
they were able to not make it be
first taste of international compe
tition: a 14-8 USA victory against
Canada.
“We had practice in the morn
ing and in the afternoon," Falcone
recalled. “And we played the
Canadian national team that night."
Now a rigorous four-day training
period looms ahead. The duo will fly
to Baltimore on June 17 for training
camp, in preparation for the Prague
Cup in late June. But self-imposed
training began much earlier.
“I've been working out a lot and
trying to maintain the fitness level
that I had during the end of the
season until I go to training camp,"
Falcone said.
“Normally we try to take a break
and let our bodies chill a little bit,
but because of the situation I just
had to keep going."
As is fitting for members of a UNC
team known for its running attacks
on the field, the fast-paced changes
have done little to slow down the Tar
Heel pair.
“We had tryouts. Two practices,
then we played Canada, and then
we had tryouts," LaGrow- said. “You
don’t get any time off it’s a great
feeling."
Though LaGrow also placed on
the elite national team last year, she
still struggled to put into words the
honor of returning to the national
touring team for the Prague Cup.
‘lt’s really hard to describe,"
LaGrow said. “When you’re out
there with USA across the front of
your jersey, there’s no other feeling
like it"
LaGrow, who graduated in the
spring, has had little time to relax
since hanging up her Tar Heel
jersey. And though it has been
anything but an easy transition,
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UNC roiled through the Cary super regional in two games Saturday and
Sunday, besting not-only Coastal Carolina, but 100-degree heat, as well.
the board.
“I said all along that if we could
be in a ball game in the fifth inning,
we would have a chance to win,"
CCU coach Gary Gilmore said.
“Unfortunately we haven't got
there yet."
Dustin Ackley and Tim Fedroff
again were the spark plugs for
UNC’s offense, combining for
nine hits and five RBI on the
weekend.
This time they were joined
by another pair of hitters. Seth
Williams and Tim Federowicz (a
combined nine hits and six RBI).
“Me and Tim are
very close ... it's
pretty eool to find
out we were back
to-back.”
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a distraction. We're happy for all
those guys. It's a dream."
Eight of North Carolina's 10
recruits also were selected out of
high school. Right-handed pitcher
Jason Knapp and shortstop/out
fielder Derrik Gibson wen- chosen
in the second round. Outfielder
L.J. Hoes was taken in the third,
and righthander Tim Melville was
selected in the fourth round.
Quentin Miller, Garrison
Lassiter, Jimmy Messer and Matt
Harrison all were drafted on the
second day.
“It’s just part of it," Fox said of
convincing those recruits to pass
up lucrative pro contracts to honor
their commitments to Chapel
Hill.
“It's part of coaching at this level.
If you stress about it too much, all
that can play all the way through
August. I’m just going to enjoy
Omaha."
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it seems fitting for the change she
anticipates ahead.
“It's an honor to play for l’m
just gonna say it the best team in
the world," LaGrow said.
“I hope to coach next year at the
collegiate level. Hopefully 1 can bring
whatever program 1 end up coach
ing at all the skills and attributes 1
acquire from this experience."
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from his postseason slump was
third baseman Chad Flack.
Flack recorded two hits Sunday
for his first of the postseason, and,
despite striking out in his final
home at-bat, even that limited pro
duction is an improvement from
his dismal performance in the
regional.
But after taking care of business
in Cary, the Tar Heels now can try
their hand in Omaha, Neb.
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Current players
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Rob Wooten - Milwaukee
Brewers
Tyler Trice - Colorado Rockies
Adam Warren - Cleveland Indians
Seth Williams - New York Mets
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A team players
real team player
Gore succeeds
on and off bench
BY POWELL LATIMER
SPORTS EDITOR
Look at any celebratory team
picture of North Carolina baseball,
and you’ll see him.
Garrett Gore, front and center,
his hands in the air and his mouth
wide open, yelling for joy.
The junior shortstop could well
have been a large part of the rea
son that North Carolina advanced
to Omaha on the strength of two
weekends of dominating defense
—and he spent most of the post
season on the bench.
Gore, who had started —and
struggled —most of the season at
shortstop, sat the bench for much
of the Tar Heels' playoff action and
let sophomore Ryan Graepel make
his mark on the postseason.
It would have been a great
opportunity for Gore to sulk in the
dugout after a younger player had
taken his spot in the lineup. But
Gore wanted too badly to be that
player on the frontline of the dog
pile. screaming his lungs out.
“He's been supportive of me all
last year when I was playing more,"
Gore said of his postseason replace
ment Graepel. “So how could I not
do the same for him?
“Always as a player you're disap
pointed when you can't play, but I
want the best thing for this team,
and obviously it worked out for the
best."
It was that support that made it
just that much easier for Graepel to
become one of the big postseason
success stories for North Carolina.
.And whom does the newbie thank?
Try the man whose spot he took.
“Tell you what, he’s incredible,"
Graepel said. “He is just so big
for our clubhouse. He's up all the
time. You can't ask for more from
a teammate. He's been supportive
no matter what the coaches have
decided ... He's been just a terrific
teammate."
The next thing anyone knew,
Graepel was surrounded by TV
cameras after leading the Tar
Heel defense through the NCAA
regionals.
Gore, on the other hand, was
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Garrett Gore
played the
second game
of UNC’s super
regional at the
DH spot.
now here to be found. Operating
mostly as a designated hitter for
the super regional weekend, he qui
etly had a solid outing in game two.
going 2-for-4 with two runs and two
RBI in fact, he put the ball in play
every single at-bat in that game.
“You just wait for your at-bat
to come up and then focus just on
hitting; it definitely takes some
pressure off of you," Gore said of
his DH spot. “Sometimes if you're
out there and make some mistakes
defensively, you can put extra pres
sure on yourself to hit better."
But for the most part. Gore knows
his limitations as a player and is
even self-deprecating at times.
“I mean you look at me, I’m
smaller. I'm not as fast... I’d love
to hit 15 home runs and bat in 72
RBIs every year, but that's not me,
I can't do that," he said.
It's a realization that Gore made
early on in his career at North
Carolina, right about the first time
he saw Chad Flack swing the bat.
So Gore became committed to
hitting for contact, laying down
slap bunts, doing the little things
to keep a rally going.
It's those little things that earned
him praise from coach Mike Fox,
who understands the value of hav
ing a contented bench.
The first thing out of Fox's mouth
in the press conference follow
ing the series win against Coastal
Carolina? Praise of Gore.
“I think our team is probably
defined by a player like Garrett
Gore.... That probably defines our
team more than anything, kids that
just want to win are willing to sac
rifice personal achievements."
Despite his retreat into the back
ground of UNC’s postseason run,
rest assured that if UNC takes the
cake in Omaha, when everyone’s
gathered around that final trophy,
Gore will be front and center.
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Up, up and away
Two UNC students and several
professors received grants to build
telescopes. See pg. 6 for story .
Boys of summer
The Tar Heels routed Coastal
Carolina 14-4 in the series finale
June 8. Look up for story .
Till the fat lady sings
Long Leaf Opera will feature
English-language operas around
Chapel Hill. See pg. 7 for story.
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ger academically than last year’s
crop. See pg. 5 for story .
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