{"id":5773,"date":"2013-06-04T01:08:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T05:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=5773"},"modified":"2013-06-04T10:18:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T14:18:17","slug":"north-carolina-wins-a-wild-one-in-13-innings-to-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=5773","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina wins a wild one in 13 innings to advance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cody Stubbs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>North Carolina advances. Up by four runs in the ninth, No. 1 UNC looked to be easily headed to the NCAA super regional. But there was still a lot of baseball, wild baseball to play. <\/p>\n

Florida Atlantic came up with six runs, including a two-out grand slam, in the ninth to take an 8-6 lead. The Tar Heels tied it in the bottom of the ninth. A three-run homer by FAU put the visitors up 11-8 in the 12th. But the Tar Heels scratched across three in the bottom of the 12th to tie it at 11. A play at the plate kept the Heels from winning it then.<\/p>\n

Florida Atlantic stranded a runner at third in the top of the 13th. After a controversial out call at first where replays showed the Tar Heel was safe to start the bottom of the 13th, a single, a walk and a hit batter loaded the bases.<\/p>\n

UNC’s Cody Stubbs singled off the left field chalk to score Landon Lassiter with the winning run and a 12-11 victory that sends the Heels into the super regional against South Carolina.<\/p>\n

“All these guys care about is winning and they found a way to get it done,” said UNC pitching coach Scott Forbes.<\/p>\n

The win came barely a week after North Carolina needed 18 innings to beat rival North Carolina State in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament. On this night, the Tar Heels used six pitchers — including regional-game starters Kent Emanuel, Benton Moss and Hobbs Johnson — before reliever Reilly Hovis (4-0) earned the win by striking out Rocklein to end the top of the 13th.<\/p>\n

The Tar Heels, 55-9, started the year 39-2 and won the ACC tournament title, but barely avoided suffering consecutive losses for the first time all season. Florida Atlantic edged North Carolina 3-2 on Sunday to force Monday night’s decisive game.<\/p>\n

Reliever Michael Sylvestri (4-3) took the loss after allowing three hits and the winning run in 1 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

The game was delayed for two hours due to heavy rain and didn’t wrap up until after 1 a.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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