May 23, 2003
North Carolina Head Coach Mike Fox:
We are thrilled to have won. We beat an outstanding Florida State team. I thought it was a great college baseball game. Great pitching and there were some key hits for us there at the end. Two of our seniors in Chad (Prosser) and Sean (Farrell) stepped up for us and Adam (Kalkhof) on the mound showed on poise for us all year long. He has had some big starts for us, especially in a game where we weren't doing a lot offensively off of (Trent) Peterson. When you are not doing much offensively you better hope you are holding the other team down. I credit our team for staying with it and battling. I am very proud of our guys. We are very happy to have won the second game and we will go from there.
Winning the second one is extremely important. These guys knew that the losing team was going to have to get up at seven tomorrow morning. I don't think they want to do that again. We have been in this situation before. Last year we won the first game and dropped the next two. This is the first time in Sean's career where we have won two games in the ACC Tournament. That is important to us as anything else. We aren't satisfied with that. We know how good the teams are that are left here and we still have our work cut out for us.
North Carolina Leftfielder Sean Farrell
(On his last at-bat)
I was pretty much just trying to get a base hit. Almost everything that Rhett James throws is a cutter and he got ahead with a good pitch right off of the bat. I got down in the count a little and I had a guy on second that I was trying to score. I battled one pitch off the outside corner just to stay alive. I managed to get around on that last pitch to hit it where there was a gap to score the winning run.
(On his 4-5 performance)
It was a little bit of luck. Last time we played these guys I tried a couple of bunts for hits. I wasn't very good at it earlier in the year but as it comes down toward the end of the season, I have been using it really well. I think that was a good start to get us going. Chris Iannetta came up and hit a big double to respond after we got down early. Peterson was throwing really well, he mixes everything really well. Every at bat it was a battle, but I got lucky a couple of times. Later in the game I was sitting on his off speed stuff and I was able to get a good piece on his change-up and drive it into the gap. We were able to respond right after that. I was just trying to do what I can for the team.
Florida State Head Coach Mike Martin:
That obviously was a tough one, but it was a great baseball game. Everybody here saw two very good clubs trying to get it done. One club got it done and one didn't. Credit the University of North Carolina. They did a tremendous job getting it done in the tenth inning. They got their leadoff hitter on. When he picked the guy off of first, I really breathed a sigh of relief, but you have got to credit (Sean) Farrell for getting the base hit to win it.
(On the pitching game)
North Carolina did an impressive job pitching today. I was very pleased with our guys, but certainly North Carolina pitched extremely well. Trent (Peterson) pitched a marvelous ball game. I went out there in the eighth inning and I wanted him to get the last out. I didn't want to turn the ball game over to someone else, because he had worked his fanny off to put us in a position to win the ball game. And I wanted him to pitch that last out and of course, he did the job and got it done.
Florida State Pitcher Trent Peterson
(On pitching 8 innings)
I felt real strong (in the eighth inning). I felt just as good in the eighth inning as I did in the first. I had pretty much all of my pitches working throwing them off of strikes and mixing them up.
2003 ACC Tournament
#1 Florida State vs North Carolina
May 23, 2003 at Salem, Va. (Salem Memorial)
Florida State 2 (49-8-1) North Carolina 3 (39-19)
Player AB R H BI Player AB R H BI
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Stephen Drew ss............ 5 0 0 0 Greg Mangum 2b............. 5 0 0 0
Tony McQuade cf............ 5 0 1 0 Chad Prosser ss............ 5 1 1 0
Tony Richie c.............. 5 0 3 0 Jeremy Cleveland rf........ 5 0 2 0
Jerrod Brown 1b............ 4 1 1 0 Sean Farrell lf............ 5 2 4 1
Blake Balkcom rf........... 4 0 2 0 Sammy Hewitt 3b/1b......... 3 0 1 1
Chris Hart 3b.............. 3 0 1 0 Ryan Blake c............... 3 0 0 0
Aaron Cheesman dh.......... 3 0 1 1 Justin Webb 3b............ 0 0 0 0
Bryan Zech 2b.............. 2 0 0 0 Chris Iannetta 1b/c........ 4 0 1 1
Daniel Wardell lf.......... 4 1 1 1 Wes Moyer dh............... 2 0 0 0
Trent Peterson p........... 0 0 0 0 Chase Younts ph........... 1 0 1 0
Rhett James p............. 0 0 0 0 Blair Waggett cf........... 4 0 0 0
Adam Kalkhof p............. 0 0 0 0
Scott Senatore p.......... 0 0 0 0
Whitley Benson p.......... 0 0 0 0
Totals..................... 35 2 10 2 Totals..................... 37 3 10 3
Score by Innings R H E
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Florida State....... 010 010 000 0 - 2 10 2
North Carolina...... 010 001 000 1 - 3 10 0
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Note: 1 out, 1 runner LOB when the game ended.
E - Drew(15); Zech(9). LOB - FS 9; NC 9. 2B - Farrell, S.(17); Iannetta, C.(10). HR
- Wardell(3). HBP - Blake, R.. SH - Brown(3); Hart(6); Cheesman(3); Zech(5). SB -
Richie(4). CS - Hewitt, S.(2); Younts, C.(2).
Florida State IP H R ER BB SO WP BK HP IBB AB BF FO GO NP
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Trent Peterson ............ 8.0 6 2 2 2 9 0 0 1 1 31 34 4 10 111
Rhett James L,0-3......... 1.1 4 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 6 6 0 1 28
North Carolina IP H R ER BB SO WP BK HP IBB AB BF FO GO NP
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Adam Kalkhof .............. 7.0 8 2 2 1 4 0 0 0 0 25 29 8 8 119
Scott Senatore ............ 0.1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 1 8
Whitley Benson W,3-2...... 2.2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 4 4 21
HB - Peterson. Inherited runners/scored: Senatore, S. 1/0; Benson, W. 3/0.
Pitches/strikes: Peterson 111/80; James 28/20; Kalkhof, A. 119/77; Senatore, S. 8/4;
Benson, W. 21/15.
Strikeouts - McQuade; Brown; Balkcom; Wardell; Mangum, G. 2; Cleveland, J; Hewitt,
S.; Blake, R. 2; Iannetta, C. 2; Moyer, W.; Waggett, B.. Walks - Balkcom; Zech;
Hewitt, S.; Moyer, W..
Umpires - HP: Randy Harvey 1B: Ron Sebastian 2B: Al Davis 3B: A.J. Lostaglio
Start: 5:27 pm Time: 2:37
Kalkhof, A. faced 1 batter in the 8th.
Game: ACC8
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