North Carolina Shuts Out Hurricanes, 2-0
May 16, 2004
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — North Carolina’s freshman left-hander Andrew Miller shut out second-ranked Miami, 2-0, in front of 1,477 fans at Mark Light Field Sunday afternoon.
With the loss, the Hurricanes fall to 37-11 on the season and lose their first weekend series of the season. North Carolina improves to 36-15 on the season.
Miami starting pitcher Brandon Camardese equaled his season high with 7.2 innings. The left-hander was tough all day, allowing only four hits and striking out six, but took the loss to fall to 5-2.
Camardese was out dueled by Miller, a 17-year old from Gainesville, Fla. Miller pitched a career-high eight innings and allowed only three hits to improve to 5-2 on the season. Miller’s 11 strikeouts were the most for an opposing pitcher against the Hurricanes this season.
With two outs in the fourth inning, Camardese walked Chris Iannetta, hit Marshall Hubbard and then walked Sammy Hewitt before surrendering a RBI-bloop single to Wes Moyer. Richard Giannotti threw Hubbard out at home with a perfect throw to save the Hurricanes a run and get them out of the inning trailing only 1-0.
The Tar Heels scored their second run of the game in the top of the ninth inning on a wild pitch from closer Danny Gil. Miami used three pitchers in the ninth inning with Gil entering the game with the bases loaded and one out. The freshman right-hander struck out two and got out of the inning only allowing the one run.
The Hurricanes got only four hits on the day with Brian Barton collecting two infield singles. Adam Ricks lined a single into left field in the first inning and Gaby Sanchez added a single up the middle.
Michael Gross pitched the ninth to earn his sixth save of the season.
Wes Moyer paced UNC’s five-hit attack with two singles and the Tar Heels only RBI of the day.
The Hurricanes play host Florida Atlantic on Wednesday May 19, at 7 p.m. with Ball State coming in for a three-game series on Thursday, May 20.
