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Baseball Takes Down Notre Dame To Reach ACC Title Game
May 28, 2022 | Baseball
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – The eighth-seeded Diamond Heels broke open a tie game with three runs in the top of the eighth inning and tacked on two more in the ninth to defeat No. 4 seed Notre Dame, 7-2, before a Saturday afternoon crowd of 4,912 at Truist Field.
UNC (37-19) advanced to Sunday's noon championship game versus the winner of Saturday's second semifinal between 10th-seeded NC State and No. 11 Pitt.
UNC will be seeking its eighth ACC baseball championship since the league began determining the winner via tournament format.
Saturday's win was the 14th in the last 16 games for the Coach Scott Forbes' team, whose RPI has taken a meteoric rise to No. 6 with Monday's NCAA tournament selections looming. Notre Dame also entered Saturday's game on an uptick with an RPI of 8 following Friday's tournament win over Virginia.
Mac Horvath's RBI single with two outs in the eighth inning put UNC in front 3-2, and Danny Serretti followed with a two-run double to left to give the Tar Heels a three-run lead. UNC had been 0-for-14 with runners in scoring position on Saturday before Horvath and Serretti delivered.
Johnny Castagnozzi, who had entered the game in the eighth inning, came through again for UNC in the ninth with a two-out, two-run single that capped the scoring.
Mikey Madej led a 13-hit UNC attack, going 4-for-4 at the plate and scoring four runs. The Tar Heels' late-inning magic made a winner of Shawn Rapp (4-0), the fourth of five UNC pitchers. Davis Palermo worked the final two innings to earn his fifth save of the year, allowing one hit and walking one batter while striking out three.
Notre Dame (35-14) scored both of its runs on solo homers – a 419-shot by Jack Brannigan that led off the bottom of the third and Carter Putz's one-out drive over the leftfield wall in the fifth that gave the Irish a 2-1 lead. But UNC scored the game's final six runs, beginning with Hunter Stokely's game-tying double in the top of the sixth.
Aidan Tyrell, who came on to pitch for Notre Dame in the top of the eighth and was charged with three unearned runs, suffered his first loss in six decisions. The Fighting Irish used seven pitchers in Saturday's game.
NOTABLES
• Carolina will make its 13th overall appearance in the ACC tournament title game, seeking its eighth title.
• The Tar Heels will play in the ACC Baseball Championship game for third time (2017, 2019, 2022) in five tournaments under the current format that was instituted in 2017.
• UNC snapped a seven-game losing streak to Notre Dame, picking up its first win over the Irish since 2019.
• Sandy had his consecutive scoreless innings streak snapped at 13.1 in the bottom of the third inning.
• Shawn Rapp made his NCAA-leading 39th appearance of the season, tying him for seventh most in school history.
• Madej recorded the first four-hit game of his career, going 4-for-4 with four runs scored.
UNC (37-19) advanced to Sunday's noon championship game versus the winner of Saturday's second semifinal between 10th-seeded NC State and No. 11 Pitt.
UNC will be seeking its eighth ACC baseball championship since the league began determining the winner via tournament format.
Saturday's win was the 14th in the last 16 games for the Coach Scott Forbes' team, whose RPI has taken a meteoric rise to No. 6 with Monday's NCAA tournament selections looming. Notre Dame also entered Saturday's game on an uptick with an RPI of 8 following Friday's tournament win over Virginia.
Mac Horvath's RBI single with two outs in the eighth inning put UNC in front 3-2, and Danny Serretti followed with a two-run double to left to give the Tar Heels a three-run lead. UNC had been 0-for-14 with runners in scoring position on Saturday before Horvath and Serretti delivered.
Johnny Castagnozzi, who had entered the game in the eighth inning, came through again for UNC in the ninth with a two-out, two-run single that capped the scoring.
Mikey Madej led a 13-hit UNC attack, going 4-for-4 at the plate and scoring four runs. The Tar Heels' late-inning magic made a winner of Shawn Rapp (4-0), the fourth of five UNC pitchers. Davis Palermo worked the final two innings to earn his fifth save of the year, allowing one hit and walking one batter while striking out three.
Notre Dame (35-14) scored both of its runs on solo homers – a 419-shot by Jack Brannigan that led off the bottom of the third and Carter Putz's one-out drive over the leftfield wall in the fifth that gave the Irish a 2-1 lead. But UNC scored the game's final six runs, beginning with Hunter Stokely's game-tying double in the top of the sixth.
Aidan Tyrell, who came on to pitch for Notre Dame in the top of the eighth and was charged with three unearned runs, suffered his first loss in six decisions. The Fighting Irish used seven pitchers in Saturday's game.
NOTABLES
• Carolina will make its 13th overall appearance in the ACC tournament title game, seeking its eighth title.
• The Tar Heels will play in the ACC Baseball Championship game for third time (2017, 2019, 2022) in five tournaments under the current format that was instituted in 2017.
• UNC snapped a seven-game losing streak to Notre Dame, picking up its first win over the Irish since 2019.
• Sandy had his consecutive scoreless innings streak snapped at 13.1 in the bottom of the third inning.
• Shawn Rapp made his NCAA-leading 39th appearance of the season, tying him for seventh most in school history.
• Madej recorded the first four-hit game of his career, going 4-for-4 with four runs scored.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Rapp, Shawn (4-0)
L: Aidan Tyrell (5-1)
S: Palermo, Davis (5)
Batting:
2B: Zarate, Angel 1 ; Serretti, Danny 1 ; Madej, Mikey 1 ; Frick, Tomas 1 ; Stokely, Hunter 1
RBI: Horvath, Mac 1 ; Serretti, Danny 2 ; Stokely, Hunter 1 ; Wilkerson, Colby 1 ; Castagnozzi, Johnny 2
SH: Frick, Tomas 2
Base Running:
RUNS: Holbrook, Reece 1 ; Madej, Mikey 4 ; Frick, Tomas 1 ; Alvarez, Patrick 1
HBP: Madej, Mikey 1
Batting:
HR: Carter Putz 1 ; Jack Brannigan 1
RBI: Carter Putz 1 ; Jack Brannigan 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Carter Putz 1 ; Jack Brannigan 1
SB: Ryan Cole 1
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RBI
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