The Diamond Heels fell in the second game of this weekend’s three-game series against East Carolina and ended Sunday’s rubber match after five innings due to weather conditions. As the score was tied 3-3 at the time of the stoppage, the game will officially go down as a tie.

Saturday’s game at Durham Bulls Athletic Park, ironically, was also tied 3-3 after five innings. The Pirates had scored first with a run in the first inning and two in the second against UNC starter Folger Boaz, but Gavin Gallaher had erased the deficit with a three-run home run in the third.

But the Pirates got to Carolina reliever Walker McDuffie in the seventh, putting the first two batters on base and then blasting a three-run shot of their own to take a 6-3 lead. ECU scored four more runs in the eighth to blow the game open on its way to the 10-3 win. It was UNC’s first loss of the season.

In Sunday’s rubber match, UNC’s Ryan Lynch and ECU’s Colby Weber each put up zeroes in the first two innings before the Pirates again scored first, plating a run in the top of the third. An Owen Hull sacrifice fly tied the score at 1-1 in the fourth, only for ECU to score twice more in the fifth. Gallaher and Erik Paulsen got the two runs back for UNC in the bottom of the inning before the game was stopped due to rain. Eventually, the two coaching staffs agreed to end the game as a tie. It was Carolina’s first official tie since the 2005 season.

UNC ends the weekend with a record of 6-1-1. The Diamond Heels will host midweek games against North Carolina A&T (Tuesday at 4 p.m.) and VCU (Wednesday at 4 p.m.) before hosting Le Moyne in Chapel Hill for a three-game weekend series beginning Friday.

 

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