April 9, 2024 | Baseball
UNC has won four of the previous seven games against the Gamecocks played at Truist Field, but has lost three of the last four, including each of the last two. The Tar Heels were shut out in last year’s meeting, 5-0. North Carolina holds a 68-38 lead in the all-time series.
South Carolina is 22-10 on the season with a 6-6 SEC record. The Gamecocks are slashing .270/.426/.480 as a team with 50 home runs. Ethan Petry leads UofSC with a .318 batting average, 13 home runs and 31 RBIs. Cole Messina has 10 home runs and 30 RBIs. The Gamecocks have a team ERA of 4.37.
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UofSC RHP Dylan Eskew (2-2, 4.83 ERA)
Carolina LHP Folger Boaz (3-1, 5.89 ERA)
UNC finished off its series at Virginia with a 12-7 win on Saturday. Parks Harber homered and drove in four runs, going 3-for-5. Harber hit the go-ahead home run in the seventh to break a 6-6 tie, and freshman Luke Stevenson delivered a two-run home run to put the Tar Heels ahead 9-6. Matt Poston picked up the win, tossing a season-high 3.1 innings out of the bullpen.
The Tar Heels were ranked inside the top 15 in each of the five major polls this week. UNC came in 13th in the D1 Baseball and NCBWA rankings and 14th in Baseball America.
North Carolina has one of the top offenses in the country, ranking among the top 25 NCAA Division I teams in seven categories: hits, scoring, base on balls, home runs, slugging percentage, home runs per game, and batting average.
The Tar Heels have belted 35 home runs over the last 12 games, accounting for 62.5 percent of their season total. UNC hit just 21 home runs in its first 20 games.
Senior Parks Harber has found his power stroke. The Atlanta native has hit 10 home runs and has driven in 24 runs in the last 11 games. He has hit safely in nine consecutive games with seven multi-hit games during the streak.
Over the past month, senior Anthony Donofrio has raised his batting average 50 points and has hit safely in a season-long nine consecutive games.
Redshirt sophomore Casey Cook ranks second in the ACC and seventh nationally in RBIs with 48. Luke Stevenson has driven home 15 runs in the last five games. Alberto Osuna has driven in 38 runs this season.
Sophomore right-handed pitcher Matthew Matthijs has made 18 appearances this season and owns an 11-1 record, most wins among all NCAA Division I pitchers.
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