{"id":5521,"date":"2013-05-09T22:22:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T02:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=5521"},"modified":"2013-05-09T22:22:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T02:22:30","slug":"no-1-tar-heels-begin-key-three-game-series-at-georgia-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=5521","title":{"rendered":"No. 1 Tar Heels begin key three-game series at Georgia Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/TarHeelsBaseball.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/TarHeelsBaseball.jpg\" alt=\"TarHeelsBaseball\" width=\"238\" height=\"179\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5522\" \/><\/a>The No. 1 North Carolina baseball heads to Atlanta Friday for a three-game ACC Coastal series against Georgia Tech. The Tar Heels hold the top spot in the ACC Coastal with a 19-3 conference mark, while the Yellow Jackets sit in third place with a 12-12 conference record.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina is in position to finish among the top 5 in team scoring and team ERA, a feat accomplished by only three other teams since 1989.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Tar Heels became the first team in the country to reach 40 wins with its 10-2 win over Charlotte and has a chance to reach 45 wins for the seventh time in eight years this weekend. UNC will also be in search of its 20th ACC win of the year this weekend, a feat the Tar Heels have accomplished in five of the last seven years. The most ACC wins for a UNC club is 22 set in the 2006, 2008 and 2012 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Junior ace Kent Emanuel will be going for his 10th win of the year on Friday which would set a new single-season career high for the Woodstock, Ga., native. Emanuel claimed nine wins as a freshman and followed up with eight more as a sophomore.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2001, the Tar Heels have had five pitchers post 10 or more wins in a season and each year that a Tar Heel has hit the mark in the last 12 years UNC has advanced to the College World Series.<\/p>\n<p>The 2013 season marks the first time since 2009 that two Tar Heels have tallied at least 60 RBIs in a season when Dustin Ackley (73), Kyle Seager (62) and Mark Fleury (60) accomplished the feat.<\/p>\n<p>The duo of Colin Moran (75) and Cody Stubbs (63) have combined for 138 RBIs this season and are currently the top two RBI men in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Moran currently leads the nation in both runs scored (63) and RBIs (75) and would become just the fourth player in the NCAA since 1980 to accomplish the feat.<\/p>\n<p>UNC has outscored its opponents 165-30 in the first three innings this year and own the best scoring margin in the country at 6.1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; News release<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The No. 1 North Carolina baseball heads to Atlanta Friday for a three-game ACC Coastal series against Georgia Tech. The Tar Heels hold the top&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5523,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521\/revisions\/5523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}