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The Diamond Heels couldn’t muster enough offense to stay with No. 1 Tennessee in the Men’s College World Series in Omaha on Sunday night, as the Volunteers beat Carolina 6-1.

Vance Honeycutt gave UNC its only run with a solo shot in the sixth inning, but it only came after Tennessee had built a 4-0 lead on two home runs. The tournament’s top seed added a run in the bottom of the inning to answer Honeycutt’s blast and another in the eighth to pad the lead.

“At the end of the day, they got the big hit and they capitalized,” said head coach Scott Forbes, “and we could not do that.”

Tennessee starting pitcher Drew Beam kept the UNC bats mostly in check through five innings, with Honeycutt’s home run to lead off the sixth standing as his only blemish. Carolina had a chance to make more noise in that inning after Casey Cook and Parks Harber both singled, but a fielder’s choice, a baserunning error from Anthony Donofrio and a Gavin Gallaher strikeout ended the threat without any more damage done. The Tar Heels left six men on base.

“We all make mistakes. Anthony made a mistake,” Forbes said. “I’ve made mistakes throughout the years, as well as everybody else on the team. So we’ll learn from it. He’ll let it teach him and won’t let it happen again, hopefully.”

With the loss, Carolina will now face No. 8 Florida State in an elimination game on Tuesday. The winner of that game will then have to beat the Volunteers twice to advance to the Men’s College World Series finals.

“The good thing is, we lost but we ain’t done,” Forbes said. “So we’ll bounce back and we’ll be ready to roll on Tuesday.”

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