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Rob Rowe ·
13 Mar 2010, 9:27 PM ·
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Duke third baseman Eric Brady swings and misses in the second ACC contest of the year for the Blue Devils. (Photo by Rob Rowe)
DURHAM BULLS ATHLETIC PARK/DURHAM If you saw the box score from last night’s game, you’d be in disbelief - #11 UNC beat Duke 21-9.
Fast-forward eighteen hours, and its Duke with an eight-run inning in front of the largest crowd in Duke coach Sean McNally’s tenure, and possibly in Duke Baseball history - the attendance is at 2,572. The crowd cheers on the Blue Devils to win this one, 15-11.
Eric Pfisterer (2-1, 5.28 ERA coming into today) is on the mound for Duke at the start. Tar Heel starting pitcher Patrick Johnson (2-1, 1.42 ERA coming into today) starts the first three innings and allows UNC to take a 2-1 lead.
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ACC, Baseball, Duke, Durham Bulls, UNC-Chapel Hill Ben Bunting, Brian Goodwin, Chris Munnelly, Christopher Manno, Durham Bulls, Durham Bulls Athletic Park, Eric Pfisterer, Jake Lemmerman, Jeremy Gould, Levi Michael, Marcus Stroman, Michael Morin, Patrick Johnson, R.C. Orlan, Sean McNally, Snorting Bull, Tommy Coyle, Will Piwnica-Worms
Mike Potter ·
12 Mar 2010, 11:00 PM ·
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North Carolina's Jacob Stallings watches the ball cross the plate as Ben Bunting warms up for his turn. (Photo by Rob Rowe)
DURHAM BULLS ATHLETIC PARK/DURHAM The ACC baseball conference season starts tonight, and they seem to make schedules a lot differently in this sport than in most others.
Duke, which has moved 18 home games to the Durham Bulls’ digs this season and is playing many of the rest at USA Baseball’s Coleman Field in Cary, is hosting archrival UNC tonight in the opener of their three-game series. Yep, the weekend of the ACC Basketball Tournament.
And the rains seem to be ending just in time for the first pitch.
The Tar Heels, who are looking for their fifth straight trip to the College World Series, are 11-2 and ranked as high as No. 11 nationally. Duke, coming off its best season in 15 years last year, is 9-3.
The Tar Heels dominate a slugfest, winning 21-9 with their highest run and hit totals of the season as they snap Duke’s eight-game winning streak and give the Blue Devils their first home loss.
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ACC, Baseball, Duke, Durham Bulls, UNC-Chapel Hill, USA Baseball Ben Grisz, Brian Goodwin, Dennis O'Grady, Dillon Hazlett, Eric Brady, Jake Lemmerman, Jeremy Gould, Joe Pedevillano, Levi Michael, Matt Harvey, Michael Ness, Mike Carroll, Mike Fox, Ryan Graepel, Sean McNally, Tarron Robinson, Tommy Coyle, Will Currier, Will Piwnica-Worms
Adam Sobsey ·
18 Nov 2009, 2:26 PM ·
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DBAP/ DURHAM—Standing right under the snorting Bull just beyond the DBAP’s Blue Monster, a.k.a. the left-field wall, grand poobah Jim Goodmon surveyed the crowd gathered at yesterday’s press conference and led off with, “This is another really great thing that’s coming to downtown Durham.”
The thing in question is a three-year agreement between the Durham Bulls and the Duke University baseball team. Beginning in February of 2010, a new partnership will see the Blue Devils play several series at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park each season for the next three years. The 2010 schedule, which will be released next week, includes games against UNC, Clemson, Miami, Florida State and Virginia, plus a couple of non-conference games TBA. Duke baseball coach Sean McNally and catcher Ryan McCurdy, who both attended yesterday, expressed unalloyed excitement and said all the right things, and why wouldn’t they? The DBAP is a beautifully maintained, gleaming ballpark that holds well over 10,000 fans (the Blue Devils hope to draw at least 2,000 per game); and although there’s nothing wrong with Duke’s own park, this is an upgrade of major proportions. For the next three seasons—more if things go well—there will be ACC baseball at the DBAP to keep up with.
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ACC, Baseball, Duke, Durham Bulls, N.C. Central DBAP, Durham Tobacconists, Jim Goodmon, Kevin White, Mike Birling, Richard Brodhead, Ryan McCurdy, Scott Strickland, Sean McNally
