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No. 4 Tar Heels Tame Tigers, 10-2
March 20, 2007 | Baseball
March 20, 2007
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Reigning ACC Player of the Week Dustin Ackley drove in three runs and extended his hitting streak to 14 games, and right fielder Tim Fedroff had career highs of three hits and four runs scored to lead No. 4 North Carolina past Towson, 10-2, Tuesday at Boshamer Stadium. The win was No. 900 in the 24-year coaching career of Carolina head coach Mike Fox, who is now 900-304-5 overall and 360-163-1 in nine seasons at UNC. The Tar Heels (19-3) and Tigers (6-13) will conclude their two-game series at 3 p.m. Wednesday.
Ackley, who was one of nine Tar Heels with a hit in the game, reached on an error and drove in a run in the first and followed with RBI singles in the second and fourth innings. He now has five straight multi-hit games and has tallied two or more hits in 14 of 22 games this season. In addition to Ackley and Fedroff, Josh Horton and Mike Cavasinni each had two hits on the day, and Chad Flack picked two RBI on a pair of sacrifice flies.
Right-hander Adam Warren (4-0) won his fourth straight midweek start, scattering five hits and three walks over five innings. He struck out three and allowed just one run before handing it over to the UNC bullpen, which gave up only one run over the final four innings. Righty Mike Facchinei struck out three over 1 1/3 innings in his first action appearance since Feb. 28.
Towson right-hander Austin Hurd (0-2) allowed seven runs on six hits and four walks over four innings, while reliever Joe Mattes gave up three runs on eight hits over four innings. The Tigers scored their two runs on solo homers by Brian Conley in the fourth and Greg Furmanek in the sixth.
Carolina jumped out to a 6-0 lead through two and never looked back. Ackley drove in a run in each inning, and three Towson errors also led to three unearned runs. Horton and Flack each drove in a run in the first, while Gore tallied his third RBI over the last two games with a groundout in the second. Gore has now hit safely in four straight games.
The Tar Heels added single runs in the fourth through seventh innings, capped by a pinch-hit RBI double by Kyle Shelton in the seventh and a run-scoring single by Fedroff in the eighth.
