Game One Of Weekend Baseball Series Goes To Virginia

Friday, April 22

Charlottesville, VA

6 p.m.

North Carolina

23-15, 8-11

Virginia

29-10, 11-8

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
North Carolina	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	7	0
Virginia	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	X	4	9	0

Box Score (PDF)

April 22, 2022 | Baseball

Box Score

By: Jody Jones

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Virginia hit solo home runs in second, seventh and eighth innings and the No. 11 Cavaliers defeated North Carolina, 4-2, at Disharoon Park on Friday night.

The Diamond Heels (23-15, 8-11 ACC) threatened in the first as Mac Horvath doubled off the right field wall and Danny Serretti followed with a one-out walk but stranded him. Virginia took advantage of a two-out walk in the bottom half of the inning to take an early 1-0 lead and threatened to add more.

However, Max Carlson struck out Chris Newell with runners at second and third to end the inning.

Carolina and Virginia exchanged solo home runs in the second with Mikey Madej leading off the top half of the inning with a homer and Colin Tuft answering with a one-out dinger.

Carlson surrendered just one hit over the next four innings and only allowed one runner to reach second base.

The first two UNC batters reached to start the sixth inning and Hunter Stokely laced a one-out single to load the bases. Vance Honeycutt then lifted a sacrifice fly to deep center field to drive in Johnny Castagnozzi to tie the game at 2-all.

Following a one-out walk to Angel Zarate, UVA coach Brian O'Conner made a pitching change that resulted in a strikeout by Jay Woolfolk to end the inning with UNC leaving the bases loaded.

After Carlson retired the first two batters, he faced in the seventh, Griff O'Ferrall broke the tie with a home run to left. Carlson (1-2) finished the game with 112 pitches in 6.2 innings and four strikeouts.

Alex Tappen homered to left field to lead off the eighth inning and the Heels went down in order in the ninth.

Woolfolk and Brandon Neeck combined for six strikeouts in the final 3.1 innings with Woolfolk earning the win and Neeck picking up the save.

NOTABLES
• Carlson matched his career-high with 6.2 innings pitched and threw a career-high 112 pitches.
• Madej hit his second home run of the season and first from the right side. Last Friday against Georgia Tech, he homered from the left side of the plate.
• Stokely singled in the second inning to extend his hitting streak to six games, matching his career-long streak. He has multiple hits in four of the last five games and an extra base hit in four of the last six, including a double tonight.
• Serretti extended his career-long hitting streak to 12 games with a two-out single in the fifth inning.

HOW IT HAPPENED
• After drawing a two-out walk, Jake Gelof scored on a double into the right field corner by Alex Tappen in the top of the first. (UVA 1, UNC 0).
• Madej homered to left field to lead off the second inning (UNC 1, UVA 1).
• Colin Tuft hit his first career home run with one-out in the bottom of the second inning (UVA 2, UNC 1).
• Honeycutt tied the game with a sacrifice fly in the sixth inning (UNC 2, UVA 2).
• Griff O'Ferrall hit a home run into the left field stands in the bottom of the seventh (UVA 3, UNC 2).
• Tappen homered to left field to lead off the eighth inning (UVA 4, UNC 2).

UP NEXT
The Diamond Heels and Cavaliers continue their series Saturday at 1 p.m. The game will be streamed on ACCNX.