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Following UNC’s 7-5 win over ECU and Game 4 of the Chapel Hill Regional, the Tar Heels are now one win away from the Super Regional round.
After beating VCU on Friday, UNC advanced to the winner's bracket against the Pirates. But unlike Friday's win, the Diamond Heels had to rally to get it done on Saturday.
UNC fell behind 3-0 early despite having ace Jason DeCaro on the mound. They then proceeded to score seven-straght runs to take the lead and hold off the Pirates 7-5. Following the game, manager Scott Forbes met the media to discuss his team's win.
“What a game, just awesome. Obviously, it’s more awesome when you come out on top, but the older you get, and the more you coach, you learn to appreciate things much better. You have way more perspective. East Carolina, they played hard, very well coached, really good players, and that’s not surprising, because that’s who they are. I thought they had to have a really good outing from Luke Payne, and he threw the ball really well, kept them in the game.”
“And then a big swing and a bat down there by my man from Georgia, Colin Hynek. First time he’s played in the postseason, and to see him running around third base, and Caden Glauber too. I thought Jason DeCaro battled and had pretty good stuff, he just could not get to his off-speed and ECU is very disciplined and he couldn’t put them away with his off-speed.”
“Give credit to coach Bryant Gaines. I was in the middle in the ninth and needed to be pushed over because I wasn’t sure what we were going to do, but when your pitching coach feels very strongly that we need to go to Walker McDuffie, we did. Globe didn’t like it, but he’ll like that he’s available the next two days, or one day hopefully.”
”We talk about it all the time, the Dean Smith rule. You pick each other up, and that’s what we’ve done all season. Somebody yelled out of the dugout – it might have been Kyle Datres – ‘make a pitch right here and pick Gavin up.’ Sure enough, that’s exactly what Globe did, and Gavin Gallaher turned a really good double play, and that’s a big play right there. When you make that error and then to quiet that momentum, and that I feel like we’ve done a good job of that all season. We talk about when something negative happens, we’ve got to get the next guy. That’s the key, just get the next guy. We talk to pitchers about that all the time, and that will prevent a big inning. So that was a huge pitch for us, and a big double play.”
All quotes via Inside Carolina.
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This article originally appeared on Tar Heels Wire: UNC Baseball: Scott Forbes praises his team's resilience after ECU win
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After beating VCU on Friday, UNC advanced to the winner's bracket against the Pirates. But unlike Friday's win, the Diamond Heels had to rally to get it done on Saturday.
UNC fell behind 3-0 early despite having ace Jason DeCaro on the mound. They then proceeded to score seven-straght runs to take the lead and hold off the Pirates 7-5. Following the game, manager Scott Forbes met the media to discuss his team's win.
What Scott Forbes said after win over East Carolina
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“What a game, just awesome. Obviously, it’s more awesome when you come out on top, but the older you get, and the more you coach, you learn to appreciate things much better. You have way more perspective. East Carolina, they played hard, very well coached, really good players, and that’s not surprising, because that’s who they are. I thought they had to have a really good outing from Luke Payne, and he threw the ball really well, kept them in the game.”
“And then a big swing and a bat down there by my man from Georgia, Colin Hynek. First time he’s played in the postseason, and to see him running around third base, and Caden Glauber too. I thought Jason DeCaro battled and had pretty good stuff, he just could not get to his off-speed and ECU is very disciplined and he couldn’t put them away with his off-speed.”
“Give credit to coach Bryant Gaines. I was in the middle in the ninth and needed to be pushed over because I wasn’t sure what we were going to do, but when your pitching coach feels very strongly that we need to go to Walker McDuffie, we did. Globe didn’t like it, but he’ll like that he’s available the next two days, or one day hopefully.”
”We talk about it all the time, the Dean Smith rule. You pick each other up, and that’s what we’ve done all season. Somebody yelled out of the dugout – it might have been Kyle Datres – ‘make a pitch right here and pick Gavin up.’ Sure enough, that’s exactly what Globe did, and Gavin Gallaher turned a really good double play, and that’s a big play right there. When you make that error and then to quiet that momentum, and that I feel like we’ve done a good job of that all season. We talk about when something negative happens, we’ve got to get the next guy. That’s the key, just get the next guy. We talk to pitchers about that all the time, and that will prevent a big inning. So that was a huge pitch for us, and a big double play.”
All quotes via Inside Carolina.
Follow us @TarHeelsWire on X and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of North Carolina Tar Heels news, notes and opinions.
This article originally appeared on Tar Heels Wire: UNC Baseball: Scott Forbes praises his team's resilience after ECU win
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