College of North Carolina
VCU
February 27, 2024 | Baseball
By: UNC Athletics Communications
Getting into the third week of the season, the Tar Heels are ranked inside the highest 17 by Baseball America, D1 Baseball, Excellent Sport, and the USA As we speak Coaches ballot, peaking at No. 16 within the NCBWA rankings.
Final Week
The Tar Heels posted a 2-2 report final week, successful a pair of residence video games over Elon (8-7) and East Carolina (2-1) earlier than dropping a impartial web site (4-7) and highway sport (9-10) to ECU.
Scouting The Rams And Lancers
VCU enters Tuesday’s sport with a 4-3 report after successful its residence opening sequence with Merrimack, successful 2-of-3. Former Tar Heel Brandon Ike leads VCU with a .375 batting common, 1.514 OPS, 4 residence runs and 12 RBIs. Ethan Iannuzzi has hit two residence runs and pushed in seven. The Rams misplaced two of three to start out the season at NC State earlier than beating Longwood of their residence opener.
Longwood is coming off a three-game sweep of Iona over the weekend and owns a 6-1 report. The Lancers opened the yr with a three-game sweep of Sienna earlier than dropping at VCU; Willie Havens has 15 RBIs via seven video games, whereas Drew Camp and Tanner Thomas have 10 every. The Lancers have outscored their opponents 98-53.
Honeycutt Named ACC Participant Of The Week
Vance Honeycutt was named ACC Participant of the Week on Monday. He posted a monster week on the plate, crushing residence runs in every of the Tar Heels’ first three video games of the week. The Salisbury native went 6-for-15 on the plate and slashed .400/.500/1.000 with three residence runs and eight RBIs. He hit a go-ahead grand slam for the Tar Heels in Tuesday’s win over Elon earlier than recording 4 extra hits in opposition to No. 11 East Carolina over the weekend, together with the game-winning residence run in Friday’s 2-1 victory. Moreover, Honeycutt grew to become simply the second participant in UNC historical past to hitch the 40 residence run and 50 stolen bases membership.
Pinch-Hit Homer Gallaher
Freshman Gavin Gallaher has two pinch-hit residence runs within the first seven video games of the season with a complete of three hits. His first homer as a Tar Heel was a pinch-hit lengthy ball within the sequence finale in opposition to Wagner. Every week later he was summoned to pinch-hit within the seventh inning in opposition to East Carolina and blasted a three-run shot. He’s the primary Tar Heel to belt two pinch-hit homers in the identical season since Benji Johnson and Bryan Steed in 2007.
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