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North Carolina head coach Scott Forbes spoke to the media following UNC’s 8-0 win over VCU. Scroll down for excerpts.
“Credit to our guys, I thought they played really, really well in all phases of the game. This big guy (Ryan Lynch) set the tone. He was outstanding. VCU has a very good team, well coached and a tough lineup and Lynch was outstanding. The first inning was big for us, we extend the inning and a big swing by (Erik) Paulsen, by Cooper (Nicholson) and then that solo home run by Coop gave us some length.”
“What stood out to me is – and I took it in a little bit – I’ve been here a long time. I went out to the outfield during the Tennessee-ECU game, and just how far this place has come since we hosted that regional in 2006 and how awesome that is. So that’s a shout out to everybody that does so much behind the scenes, people that run this thing at UNC. They just do a top-notch job, makes it easy on us where we can just coach, but most importantly, our fans showed up. They were loud. I got to see a bunch of former players, so obviously that makes me smile. And looking forward to tomorrow night, hopefully we’ll pack it even more. We’ll be even louder. So we’re really excited about that.”
“I saw that same look in (Lynch’s) face as I did late in the season last year, number one, and I thought he was efficient, and the stuff was just the stuff. I mean, he was throwing cheese a lot of 95s late, I think maybe a 97 there was a 99 early in the game. So just ultra aggressive, and he is always a ground ball away, like you talked about just a while ago, and when you know that, and you see that, you are just going to let him see if he can get out of this right here. He’s earned that right, he’s done that many times for us, and you have stuff like that, you can get out of any jam.”
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On UNC’s win…
“Credit to our guys, I thought they played really, really well in all phases of the game. This big guy (Ryan Lynch) set the tone. He was outstanding. VCU has a very good team, well coached and a tough lineup and Lynch was outstanding. The first inning was big for us, we extend the inning and a big swing by (Erik) Paulsen, by Cooper (Nicholson) and then that solo home run by Coop gave us some length.”
On the support…
“What stood out to me is – and I took it in a little bit – I’ve been here a long time. I went out to the outfield during the Tennessee-ECU game, and just how far this place has come since we hosted that regional in 2006 and how awesome that is. So that’s a shout out to everybody that does so much behind the scenes, people that run this thing at UNC. They just do a top-notch job, makes it easy on us where we can just coach, but most importantly, our fans showed up. They were loud. I got to see a bunch of former players, so obviously that makes me smile. And looking forward to tomorrow night, hopefully we’ll pack it even more. We’ll be even louder. So we’re really excited about that.”
On Ryan Lynch’s performance on the mound…
“I saw that same look in (Lynch’s) face as I did late in the season last year, number one, and I thought he was efficient, and the stuff was just the stuff. I mean, he was throwing cheese a lot of 95s late, I think maybe a 97 there was a 99 early in the game. So just ultra aggressive, and he is always a ground ball away, like you talked about just a while ago, and when you know that, and you see that, you are just going to let him see if he can get out of this right here. He’s earned that right, he’s done that many times for us, and you have stuff like that, you can get out of any jam.”
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This article originally appeared on Tar Heels Wire: UNC Baseball: Scott Forbes reacts to shutout win over VCU in regional
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