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UNC-ND Game One

JohnGwaltney

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Both of today's games will be carried on ESPN3. Game one begins at 2:00 pm.

Sunday's game will also be carried on ESPN3.
 
Bolt hammered one out to put UNC up 1-0 after first two batters struck out in the T1.
 
ND ties it up 1-1 B3 after Gallen struggles, but Carolina gets out w/o further damage.
 
UNC leads top of 7th, 5-3, bases loaded, 2 outs. Raburn goes down swinging for the 3rd out.

Bottom of the 7th, UNC leads 5-3.
 
Game tied 5-5, bottom of the 8th. ND runners at 1st and 2nd, 1 out. Thornton relieves Kelley. Kelley has been great all year, tough outing for him today.
 
Single, bases full, passed ball. ND leads 6-5, 1 out. Intentional walk. Bases full, 1 out.RBI single, ND leads 7-5. Thornton walks in a run. ND leads 8-5. Force out at 1st. ND leads 9-5.

ND is bringing its 9th batter to the plate this inning. Bases full, 2 outs. This has been painful to watch. Thornton gives way to Z. Rice.

Ground ball to 1st, the runner beats Rice to 1st. ND leads 10-5.

Finally, ground out to 2nd. ND leads 10-5, top of the 9th. UNC needs one hell of a rally.
 
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ND wins 10-5. ND scores the last 8 runs of the game.

Game 2 is scheduled for 6:00 pm tonight.
 
UNC release

http://www.goheels.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3350&ATCLID=210080410

NOTRE DAME, Ind. --- Notre Dame scored the game's final eight runs to beat No. 20 North Carolina 10-5 Saturday afternoon in the first game of an ACC doubleheader at Frank Eck Stadium. Ryan Bull's two-run homer tied it at 5 in the eighth before the Irish plated five runs in the eighth against the Tar Heel bullpen. Skye Bolt hit his seventh home run of the year and Alex Raburn had two hits to lead the Tar Heels, who will send J.B. Bukauskas to the mound in the nightcap.

Carolina (31-17, 13-11 ACC) took a 1-0 lead on Bolt's home run in the first before the Irish (31-18, 13-12 ACC) tied it in the third against Zac Gallen. Ryan Lidge's RBI single in the fifth put Notre Dame in front for the first time, but the Tar Heels responded with four runs in the sixth.

Brian Miller doubled home Landon Lassiter to even the score at 2 and Raburn's RBI single put UNC back in front. Notre Dame's Mac Hudgins then lost a fly ball in center that allowed Raburn to score, and Elijah Sutherland's run-scoring hit pushed the lead to 5-2.

But it would be all Irish from there, however, with Jake Shepski's solo homer in the sixth starting the hosts' rally. Bull tied it with his fourth longball of the year in the seventh against Trevor Kelley (5-2), and Notre Dame sent 10 men to the plate in the decisive eighth.

Scott Tully struck out Raburn with the bases loaded in the seventh and then fanned Bolt with two on in the eighth on his way to a relief victory. Tully allowed just two hits over 2.1 scoreless innings to improve to 4-4.

Notre Dame starter Scott Kerrigan allowed five runs on six hits over 6.1 innings, while Gallen surrendered three runs on five hits in 5.2 innings of work.
 
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