University of Louisville
26-18, 0
North Carolina
24-22, 0
Cardinals Lose Finale 10-5 at North Carolina
May 16, 2021 | Baseball
Louisville returns home for the final four games of the regular season.
It marks the second time the Cardinals have been swept this season, also dropping all three at Clemson.
Louisville (26-18, 16-13 ACC) fell behind early again on Sunday, giving up three runs in each of the first two innings.
Tyeler Hawkins put the Cardinals on the board for the first time in the fourth with a double that scored Trey Leonard, the first extra-base hit and RBI of Hawkins' career.
UofL threatened again in the fifth, loading the bases with nobody out. However, the Cardinals came away with just one run on a Lucas Dunn sacrifice fly.
North Carolina (24-22, 17-16) got one of the runs back in the sixth, but Alex Binelas pulled Louisville within three at 7-4 with a two-run homer, his 15th of the season.
That was as close as the Cardinals would get though, as UNC tacked on three more in the eighth and Louisville got just a run-scoring single from Binelas in the ninth.
The Cardinals pounded out 16 hits on the day, with all nine starters registering at least one knock. Luke Brown led the way with a 4-for-5 day, a career-high in hits for the junior. Binelas, Hawkins, Henry Davis and Christian Knapczyk all had multi-hit days as well.
Louisville has four games left in the regular season, all at Jim Patterson Stadium. The Cardinals will take on USC Upstate on Tuesday at 3 p.m. ET before a three-game series with Miami starting on Thursday.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Nik Pry (3-4)
L: Lohman, Carter (2-2)
Batting:
2B: Hawkins, Tyeler 1
HR: Binelas, Alex 1
RBI: Binelas, Alex 3 ; Dunn, Lucas 1 ; Hawkins, Tyeler 1
SF: Dunn, Lucas 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Bowman, Cooper 1 ; Brown, Luke 2 ; Binelas, Alex 1 ; Leonard, Trey 1
SB: Brown, Luke 1
Batting:
2B: Justice Thompson 1 ; Danny Serretti 1 ; Brett Centracchio 2
RBI: Angel Zarate 1 ; Justice Thompson 2 ; Dallas Tessar 1 ; Mac Horvath 2 ; Danny Serretti 1 ; Tomas Frick 1 ; Mikey Madej 1
SF: Danny Serretti 1 ; Mikey Madej 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Angel Zarate 1 ; Justice Thompson 1 ; Caleb Roberts 2 ; Danny Serretti 1 ; Tomas Frick 1 ; Brett Centracchio 3 ; Colby Wilkerson 1
CS: Dallas Tessar 1
HBP: Justice Thompson 1
PO: Dallas Tessar 1
