It's 3:42 p.m., and East Carolina leads Cornell 10-6 as the teams prepare
to play the ninth inning.

The loser is eliminated. The winner advances to Sunday's 1 p.m. elimination game.

Carolina will play St. John's at 6, of course, and this is the big game each year during this tournament format. Whoever wins will sit and watch the elimination game on Sunday afternoon and then play the winner of that game at 6 p.m.

If UNC wins today, it will have regular starter Benton Moss (6-2, 1.97 ERA) ready to go.

Carolina regular Friday starter, Kent Emanuel (8-4, 2.03 ERA) will start today's game at 6 p.m.

East Carolina won 10-6 to advance to Sunday's 1 p.m. game against the loser of the Carolina-St. John's game at 6 today.

St. John's will pitch left-hander Sean Hagan, a junior who was the top pitcher for the Red Storm this season. He is 8-2 with a 2.58 ERA. He's thrown two complete games this season.

These were the pitchers used against UNC in February

St. John's IP H R ER BB SO AB BF
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LOBBAN, Brendan..... 3.0 7 4 4 3 2 16 19
WERNIUK, Jerome..... 2.0 2 1 1 3 1 7 10
WOODWARD, Jake...... 2.0 3 2 2 1 2 9 10
CERVONE, Anthony.... 0.1 1 1 1 2 0 1 3
BELLINGER, Brad..... 0.2 0 0 0 1 0 2 3

Anyone got a link to watch this online?

Grounds crew has field in shape. Now has to paint the lines. Both teams throwing in the outfield.

The teams have finished taking infield. Out comes the paint.

Heres the Video Link JP...They posted it in their facebook status

Thanks for the link

Starting lineup for Heels

CF Chaz Frank
SS Michael Russell
3b Colan Moran
C Jacob Stallings
1b Cody Stubbs
2b Tommy Coyle
RF Shell McCain
DH Brian Holberton
LF Parks Jordan

Frank and Russell make two outs to leadoff for Carolina. Moran walks.

Stallings hitting.

I cannot write as much as usual because of NCAA rules. I'll do the best I can without getting tossed from the park.

Eddy

UNC is the visitor even though Heels at home. Tournament rules.

Stallings popped up for third out.

St. John's comes to bat.

Hard-hit single to lead off the inning for St. John's, but when the second batter bunts Stallings throws him out. Third batter hits the ball hard, and it bounces off Coyle's chest. He cannot get lead runner, but he gets the batter at first.

Two outs.

Pop out to McCain in RF for third out.

Heels back to bat at start of second.

3-0 to start Stubbs. Now 3-1. ... 3-2. ... foul E-4 hard-hit hopper.

Stubbs on first.

Coyle up. Bad bunt, lead runner gets thrown out at second. Coyle at first on fielder's choice.

McCain up. One out. First base ump calls balk, but home plate ump says Rocket to right field by McCain, but Coyle falls down running to second and only gets to second. Would have been third normally.

first and second, one out.

Close to full house today. Great crowd.

Holberton up with first and second, one out. ... K out 2. Great pitch had Holberton reaching out on his front foot.

Parks Jordan up with two outs, runners first and second. Heels have been superb with two outs the last third of this season.

Jordan starts with 3-0 count. Walk.

Bases loaded for Chaz Frank.

Frank starts off 0-2, swinging from his heels on the second strike. Now 2-2. Count goes to 3-2 on two close calls. ... Huge pitch coming up. ... Another foul ball. Two straight. Now it's turning into a nice at-bat. ... Strikes out watching.

Emanuel hits first batter after getting him down 1-2 in the count. Then second batter drills a line drive to center field for a single. First and second with no outs. ... bunt moves runners to second and third with 1 out.

This is a big, big at-bat now. 4 to 3 for out 2, but runner scores from third. SJ leads 1-0.

Next batter 0-2 count. Close call for ball 1. 1-2 count. Pop up for out three, but the Red Storm leads 1-0.

Russell goes other way for single to lead off the inning.

Moran up to hit with no outs and Russell on first. Moran goes down 1-2 in the count. ... Single to center field by Moran. No outs, first and second. This is a tremendous opportunity for Tar Heels.

Stallings is batting. 2-0 count to start. Fly ball out. 1 out, still first and second.

Stubbs to bat.

Another fly ball out. Now first and second, two outs.

Coyle up. Heels close to wasting great opportunity.

Great hit by Coyle to left-center. Single scores the tying run. Two outs, McCain up. Men first and second.

Out 3, but Heels tie game at 1.

Heels misplay short fly ball over the second baseman's head. runner goes to second. The hopper to short and Russell can't make the play. Runners first and third, two outs.

Batter drills single to center. Red Storm leads 2-1.

Tar Heels are aiding and abetting the opposition in this one.

Next batter strikes out, but St. John's scores again and leads 2-1.

Holberton leads off the inning. Out.

Parks Jordan up. Two outs.

Chaz Frank up with two outs. UNC has been good with two outs. Need to be that way again.

1,2,3.

Bottom of fourth, St. John's comes to bat leading 2-1.

Double play ends the inning without Storm scoring, but St. John's still leads 2-1 at the top of the fifth inning.

Russell leads off the inning. 3-1 and Russell pops out to second baseman.

Moran up. Bouncer to first for out two.

Stallings up.

3-1 count to Stallings. Fly ball to RF for out 3.

Emanuel hits the leadoff batter after getting him down 0-2. Then St. John's tries to bunt him to second, but Carolina turns double play.

Next batter hits ground ball to Stubbs at first for third out. No runs.

Heels up to start the sixth. Stubbs grounds out 4-3.

Coyle up. He drills double into left-center gap.

One out, man on second. McCain up.

HOME RUN by McCain. Heels lead 3-2.

Holberton looking horrible. Three of the worst swings you will ever see.

Two outs.

Parks Jordan to bat. Out. But Heels lead 3-2, thanks to Shell McCain.

I hope the Heels add a few insurance runs

Heels get out of the inning without anymore runs from St. John's.

Frank hits a long fly ball to lead off the inning, but it is just a long out.

Russell really tags a ball down the third base line, but third baseman is there to catch it. Out 2.

Moran up to bat.

Another long fly ball out.

St. John's up in the bottom of the seventh. Heels lead 3-2.

Hard-hit line-drive fly ball out to start inning for St. John's.

Nice play by Russell and Stubbs to get out 2.

Out 3. Emanuel looking good and so is his defense behind him.

Stallings leads off the inning. Foul ball out.

Stubbs up. Long fly ball out. 2 outs.

Coyle up to bat. Quick ground ball out. 3 outs.

Bottom of the eighth. Emanuel back to the mound.

What a play by Russell, wow!!

Fly ball out to LF. 1 out.

Great, and I mean GREAT, play by Russell for out two.

Third out.

Heels lead 3-2 going to top of ninth.

Morin the terminator in the 9th or stay with Emanuel?

Heck of a play by Russel

Would absolutely love an insurance run or two.

Sweet, nice hit

Just got one, Jordan with a big RBI double

4-2 UNC, Jordan on 2nd, 1 out

This post was edited on 6/2 7:59 PM by DF1972

Attendance 3,710.

Excellent game, super crowd.

Shell McCain leads off the inning. He hit the home run that turned this game in his last at-bat.

Their shortstop makes a super play to get McCain.

Out 1.

Grayson Atwood pinch-hitting for Tar Heels.

Atwood slaps a fly ball single down the right-field line. He's right-handed. He went the opposite way. Pinch-runner for Atwood, Mike Zolk.

Parks Jordan to bat with one out and Zolk at first.

Jordan pulls a hard double down the right-field line, and Zolk scores from first. Insurance run No. 1. Heels lead 4-2 with Frank coming to bat and Jordan at second. one out.

New pitcher for St. John's.

The starter pitched a super game.

Chaz Frank to bat.

Jordan nearly gets picked off at second.

3-2 count. Ball 4. Frank to first. men on first and second with one out.

Russell to bat.

Pop up out. two outs.

Moran up to bat with two outs and runners on first and second.

We're about to get a new pitcher for St. John's.

OK, Moran up with a left-hander in to throw. Strike 1. Hard-hit ball, but ground out. Heels get critical insurance run, though.

4-2 Heels in the bottom of the ninth.

Michael Morin in to pitch ninth inning. If he can earn the save, it will be a new school single-season record at 19.

Morin throws two balls to start first batter.

First batter drills ball to right-center gap for lead-off double.

1-1 to next batter.

A guy in the crowd screams: "Everybody, let's stand up." Crowd does it.

ground ball to Coyle. Can't get it out of his glove. First and third with no outs.

This is not following the usual script.

Whole infield meets at the mound.

This season's team seems to enjoy high drama, Eddy.

two strikes on next batter.

K out 1.

A lot of off-speed stuff.

3 run HR. St. John's wins 5-4

Yes, I agree about the drama. Coach Fox said it many times this year.

Third-run home run wins the game for St. John's.

Red Storm wins the game 5-4.

ouch

This squad just doesnt seem to have it for the big games...

Ugh!

I cannot believe that the 'Heels gave this one up. I just watched it and I still can't believe it. Kid has hit 2 HR's all year long and hits the walk off to send us to the loser's bracket.

It isn't impossible to advance, but the 'Heels just made it a WHOLE lot more difficult. Gotta suck it up and win 3 more games now or the season is done.

I can't believe this. I am in complete shock right now.

Should've left Emanual in the game,stupid,stupid move. I swear,sometimes Fox has brain farts.

This post was edited on 6/2 8:27 PM by BD42