Long Gone becomes GONE LONG!, as North Carolina tops N.C. State 4-3 in 4 Hours(Attendance 5,822)/Wesleyan’s Jon Olczak in game for N.C. State[We got the Box Score]…Photo of ‘The Play at the Plate’ is here!

See game photos and these are very good ones when you CLICK HERE for H. Scott Hoffman at the News and Record…Scott did super job with these and he always does good work…He has ‘The Play at the Plate’….

Today’s game was GONE LONG!!!
Final from Game One today at the ACC Baseball Tournament at NewBridge Bank Park in downtown Greensboro…

North Carolina Tar Heels 4
N.C. State Wolfpack 3
The game started at a few minutes after 11am and ended at 3pm and we are talking a four hour game….Long Gone by Skye Bolt from UNC with a solo HR, but as a whole, the game was GONE LONG today at NBBP….Wake Forest takes on Georgia Tech at 3:51pm in Game Two of today’s Opening Round play-in games…

There was a play at the plate that everyone will be talking about until at least ‘first pitch’ on Wednesday, when the N.C. State runner was flying in from third trying to score with one out…

The batter at the plate strikes out and he was trying to put the ball into play some how, some way,(Bunt, fly ball to the outfield, anything or, but the batter strikes out the runner comes home(Trea Turner looking to steal home) from third and it was Trea Turner and slides in and appears to get his hand in for safe at the plate, but the home plate umpire calls him out and that was the third out and boy did the Wolfpack bench with coaches, players and support people erupt and the State fans went ballistic too, but to no avail and the home plate umpire’s call stood…

Later on upstairs, the word from the press area was that they saw the photo of the play and that the N.C. State runners(Trea Turner) was clearly safe…Lots of plays, lots of base runners, lots of men left on base and tons of pitching changes today and both State and Carolina left the bases loaded on more than one occasion today…

Tight game and a well-played game for the most part, but even with that, the game was GONE LONG…..Pitching changes, time being called, this one rolled on and on and in the end, the North Carolina Tar Heels were the victors, 4-3 over the N.C. State Wolfpack and the Pack’s season of 2014 could well be done after this one…We never saw Carlos Rodon take to the hill today, but we saw just about every other pitcher in creation….Rodon was DH’ing for State and reached base a couple of times in the contest…..He drew a walk and reached on an E-6…

Trea Turner(2-4/RBI) with a triple for N.C. State and Skye Bolt with the home run, were some of the highlights in this one….Brett Austin with three singles and an RBI for State as well….Bubby Riley was 1-3 with a two-run single for State….Michael Russell 2-3/RBI for Heels, Parks Jordan with a big double for UNC…Landon Lassiter with a Double for UNC…Wood Myers with an RBI for Heels…

More to come with today’s Box Score on the way….
2014 ACC Baseball Championship
NC State vs North Carolina
May 20, 2014 at Greensboro, N.C. (NewBridge Bank Park)

NC State 3 (32-23)
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob avg
Trea Turner ss 4 1 2 0 1 0 1 1 2 .324
Logan Ratledge 2b 4 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 3 .269
Brett Austin c 4 1 3 1 1 0 11 0 0 .352
Andrew Knizner 3b 5 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 .327
Jake Fincher cf 4 0 0 0 1 3 3 0 3 .257
Bubby Riley lf 3 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 0 .203
Carlos Rodon dh 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .265
Preston Palmeiro 1b 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 .282
Chance Shepard ph 2 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 .229
Garrett Suggs rf 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 .207
Kyle Cavanaugh ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 3 .253
Jake Armstrong ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .227
Eric Peterson p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 –
Cody Beckman p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 –
Brad Stone p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 –
Jon Olczak p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 –
Will Gilbert p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 –
Cory Wilder p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 –
Totals 33 3 7 3 7 10 24 4 11

North Carolina 4 (33-23)
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob avg
Michael Russell ss 3 1 2 1 1 1 2 3 0 .347
Wood Myers 2b 3 1 1 1 1 2 0 2 3 .297
Landon Lassiter 3b 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 .299
Skye Bolt cf 3 1 1 2 0 2 2 0 0 .249
Tyler Ramirez rf 4 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 3 .282
Parks Jordan lf 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 .276
Alex Raburn 1b 2 0 0 0 1 0 7 0 0 .250
Tom Zengel dh 3 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 .262
Adrian Chacon ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .235
Korey Dunbar c 4 1 1 0 0 2 11 0 2 .229
Reilly Hovis p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 –
Zach Rice p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 –
Trevor Kelley p 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 –
Spencer Trayner p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 –
Trent Thornton p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 –
Totals 31 4 8 4 3 10 27 9 8

Score by Innings

 
               1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
NC State       1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 0
North Carolina 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 X 4 8 3

E – Russell, M 2(18); Bolt, S(2). DP – NC 2. LOB – ST 11; NC 8. 2B – Russell, M(19); Lassiter, L(5); Jordan,
P(8). 3B – Turner(3); Russell, M(2). HR – Bolt, S(3). HBP – Cavanaugh; Raburn, A. SF – Bolt, S(6). SB – Turner
2(26); Ratledge(10). CS – Turner(4).

NC State ip h r er bb so ab bf np era
Eric Peterson 2.2 5 4 4 0 3 12 13 50 3.68
Cody Beckman 1.1 1 0 0 2 2 5 7 31 4.50
Brad Stone 1.2 1 0 0 0 2 6 6 23 2.91
Jon Olczak 1.0 1 0 0 1 2 4 5 22 2.74
Will Gilbert 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 16 3.86
Cory Wilder 0.2 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 11 6.30

North Carolina ip h r er bb so ab bf np era
Reilly Hovis 3.1 5 3 3 2 1 14 16 74 2.48
Zach Rice 0.2 1 0 0 2 2 3 5 26 3.37
Trevor Kelley 1.2 0 0 0 1 2 4 6 25 3.07
Spencer Trayner 1.1 1 0 0 1 3 6 7 32 1.72
Trent Thornton 2.0 0 0 0 1 2 6 7 28 1.94
Win – Rice, Z (2-2). Loss – Peterson, E. (4-4). Save – Thornton, T (1).
HBP – by Kelley, T (Cavanaugh); by Gilbert (Raburn, A). BK – Trayner, S(1). Pitches/strikes: Peterson, E. 50/30;
Beckman 31/13; Stone 23/16; Olczak 22/11; Gilbert 16/8; Wilder 11/8; Hovis, R 74/50; Rice, Z 26/14; Kelley, T