{"id":7192,"date":"2014-05-30T23:23:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T03:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=7192"},"modified":"2014-05-30T23:23:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T03:23:51","slug":"tar-heels-baseball-faces-elimination-game-after-losing-6-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=7192","title":{"rendered":"Tar Heels baseball faces elimination game after losing 6-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/unchat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/unchat.jpg\" alt=\"unchat\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7193\" \/><\/a>Long Beach State had all five of its hits in a six-run fourth and Andrew Rohrbach worked into the ninth for the second-seeded Dirtbags, who defeated No. 3 seed North Carolina 6-1 Friday afternoon at the University of Florida&#8217;s McKethan Stadium. Tom Zengel and Landon Lassiter had two hits each for the Tar Heels, who will face an elimination contest Saturday at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>UNC will play the loser of the Florida-College of Charleston game, which was under a long weather delay Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Rohrbach and Carolina starter Trent Thornton traded zeroes until the bottom of the fourth, when LBSU (33-24) scored all six of its runs. Garrett Hampson reached on an infield single to lead off the inning before moving to third on a wild pitch and a groundout to first. The next six Dirtbag hitters would reach against Thornton (7-4) and Trevor Kelley, and when the dust settled Long Beach led 6-0. <\/p>\n<p>For Thornton, the 3.1-inning start was the shortest of his career and the first of 2014 that didn&#8217;t last at least five innings. Kelley allowed a two-run double Colton Vaughn to cap the scoring, but the six runs would prove to be plenty for Rohrbach (7-2).<\/p>\n<p>The redshirt sophomore who threw just four innings in junior college in 2013 needed just 94 pitches to work into the ninth. Carolina (34-26) didn&#8217;t get a runner past second until the ninth, when Michael Russell led off with a double off the wall. Two batters later, Lassiter singled home pinch-runner Adam Pate to put the Tar Heels on the board. <\/p>\n<p>Long Beach closer Ty Provencher got the final two outs after Lassiter&#8217;s RBI hit, with a Tyler Ramirez blast to the wall in right center ending it and sending the Tar Heels to the loser&#8217;s bracket.<\/p>\n<p>Kelley, Henry Sisson and A.J. Bogucki retired the final 14 hitters they faced, as the Dirtbags had just one baserunner all afternoon outside the fourth inning.<\/p>\n<p>UNC will send Benton Moss to the hill in Saturday&#8217;s elimination game against the loser of Friday night&#8217;s Florida-College of Charleston matchup. With a victory Saturday, Carolina would play again Sunday at 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long Beach State had all five of its hits in a six-run fourth and Andrew Rohrbach worked into the ninth for the second-seeded Dirtbags, who&#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-7192","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\/7192","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=7192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7194,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7192\/revisions\/7194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}