Woodard (8-2) held the Jackets to three runs on eight hits and struck out three to earn his eighth win of the season.
A first-inning hit by Danny Payne extended his hitting streak to 15 games, and the Yellow Jacket junior led Tech's offense with a 4-for-5 performance at the plate while also scoring two of the Jackets' three runs in the game, one of which came on a solo home run in the seventh inning. With his first inning hit, Payne extended his streak of reaching base to 69-straight game appearances, dating back to Mar. 24, 2006.
Federowicz went 3-for-5 to lead the UNC offense while Dustin Ackley, Josh Horton, Chad Flack and Kyle Seager collected two hits apiece for the Tar Heels.
Payne led off the game with a single, moved to third on a single by Patrick Long and scored on Matt Wieters' sacrifice fly, giving the Jackets a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning.
Tech's lead was short-lived however, as the Tar Heels exploded for five runs in the bottom of the second inning behind a two-run home run by Josh Horton, a two-run double by Reid Fronk and an RBI single by Dustin Ackley.
A two-run homer by Ackley, his seventh of the season, pushed the Tar Heels' lead to six runs in the fourth inning before Chris House was hit by a pitch to lead off the fifth, moved to third on a single by Brad Feltes and scored when Jason Garofalo hit into a fielder's choice, making the score 7-2.
A sacrifice fly by Fronk and a two-run single by Seth Williams pushed North Carolina's lead to eight runs in the bottom of the fifth inning before Payne sent his third home run of the season over the right-center field wall to make the score 10-3 in the seventh.
Yellow Jacket starter David Duncan (6-3) cruised through the first inning, but struggled in the next three to take the loss. He gave up seven runs on nine hits in four innings, while his only strikeout came in the bottom of the first inning. The loss was Duncan's first since Mar. 9, as the Yellow Jacket sophomore had gone 3-0 in his eight appearances since.
The Jackets and Tar Heels continue the series Saturday at 1 p.m.
2007 GEORGIA TECH BASEBALL
#24 Georgia Tech at #4 North Carolina
May 11, 2007 at Chapel Hill, NC (Cary Boshamer Stadium)
Georgia Tech 3 (30-19,14-10 ACC)
Player AB R H RBI BB SO PO A LOB
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Danny Payne cf........... 5 2 4 1 0 0 3 0 0
Patrick Long ss.......... 5 0 1 0 0 1 3 1 1
Matt Wieters c........... 3 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 2
Nick Scherer c.......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
Wally Crancer dh......... 4 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
Luke Murton rf/1b........ 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0
Tony Plagman 1b.......... 3 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 1
Curtis Dupart rf........ 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chris House lf........... 3 1 1 0 0 0 5 0 3
Brad Feltes 3b........... 4 0 1 0 0 2 2 0 1
Jason Garofalo 2b........ 4 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 0
David Duncan p........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Andrew Robinson p....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Michael Hutts p......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals................... 36 3 11 3 0 6 24 5 8
North Carolina 10 (40-10,17-8 ACC)
Player AB R H RBI BB SO PO A LOB
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Reid Fronk lf............ 3 1 1 3 0 0 3 0 0
Seth Williams cf......... 4 0 1 2 1 1 3 0 0
Dustin Ackley 1b......... 5 1 2 2 0 0 9 0 1
Tim Federowicz c......... 5 1 3 0 0 0 6 0 4
Josh Horton ss........... 4 1 2 2 1 0 2 2 1
Chad Flack 3b............ 5 2 2 0 0 1 0 2 0
Tim Fedroff rf........... 3 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 0
Mike Cavasinni ph/rf.... 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Garrett Gore 2b.......... 3 2 1 0 1 0 0 5 3
Benji Johnson dh......... 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kyle Seager ph/dh....... 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Robert Woodard p......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Tyler Trice p........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rob Wooten p............ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Brian Moran p........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals................... 36 10 15 9 3 3 27 9 9
Score by Innings R H E
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Georgia Tech........ 100 010 100 - 3 11 0
North Carolina...... 050 230 00X - 10 15 0
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DP - Georgia Tech 1; UNC 1. LOB - Georgia Tech 8; UNC 9. 2B - Payne, D.(18);
Fronk, R(13). HR - Payne, D.(3); Ackley, D(7); Horton, J(7). HBP - House,
C.; Fronk, R; Johnson, B. SH - Fedroff, T(2). SF - Wieters, M.(4); Fronk,
R(5).
Georgia Tech IP H R ER BB SO AB BF NP
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David Duncan........ 4.0 9 7 7 1 1 20 23 88
Andrew Robinson..... 2.0 5 3 3 1 0 9 12 45
Michael Hutts....... 2.0 1 0 0 1 2 7 8 32
North Carolina IP H R ER BB SO AB BF NP
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Robert Woodard...... 7.0 8 3 3 0 3 27 29 104
Tyler Trice......... 1.0 2 0 0 0 1 5 5 22
Rob Wooten.......... 0.2 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 9
Brian Moran......... 0.1 1 0 0 0 1 2 2 11
Win - Woodard, R (8-2). Loss - Duncan, D. (6-3). Save - None.
HBP - by Duncan, D. (Johnson, B); by Duncan, D. (Fronk, R); by Woodard, R
(House, C.). BK - Duncan, D.(3). Inherited runners/scored: None.
Pitches/strikes: Duncan, D. 88/53; Robinson, A. 45/26; Hutts, M. 32/18; Woodard,
R 104/76; Trice, T 22/13; Wooten, R 9/6; Moran, B 11/7.
Umpires - HP: Jack Cox 1B: Harry Greer 3B: Bruce Ravan
Start: 7:05 pm Time: 2:45 Attendance: 2656