June 5, 2005

• With the 5-2 loss to Florida Saturday, North Carolina fell to 47-43 all-time in NCAA tournament play. Head coach Mike Fox is now 12-11 in six postseason appearances with the Tar Heels, who have dropped their last five NCAA tourney road games since the 2003 Starkville Regional. All five losses have come at the hands of Southeastern Conference opponents.

• Sophomore right-hander Daniel Bard is scheduled to start against Notre Dame Sunday. He is 7-4 this season with a 4.16 ERA.

• Carolina will need to win twice Sunday to force a deciding seventh game of the regional on Monday. The Tar Heels played two doubleheaders this season and swept them both - against Princeton on March 15 and Wake Forest on March 26. They both were played at Boshamer Stadium.

• With the loss Saturday, the Tar Heels have now dropped four of their last five games and eight of their last 12. Carolina has scored two runs or less in four of its last five games, and its three hits versus Florida's Tommy Boss Saturday matched a season low. Arizona State also held UNC to just three hits on March 4.

• Saturday's game marked the Tar Heels' 31st of the season against teams that qualified for the 2005 NCAA tournament. They are 14-16-1 in these contests. Carolina has played 16 different teams that qualified for the tourney, which is exactly one-fourth of the 64-team field.

• Freshman infielder Chad Flack hit his team-best 15th home run of the season against Florida Saturday, which is the most ever for a Tar Heel rookie. He is batting .571 (5-7) with a team-best four RBI in the NCAA regional and now has driven in 49 runs this season, which is second on the team behind Matt Ellington's 55. Flack and classmate Josh Horton are the only two Tar Heels to hit safely in each of the first two games of the regional.

• Senior second baseman Greg Mangum has scored one run in each of the Tar Heels' two NCAA regional games and has 162 for his career. He needs just one more to move into 10th place on Carolina's career list and needs two more hits to move into a tie for eighth in Tar Heel history.

• With eight strikeouts Saturday, sophomore lefty Andrew Miller now has 104 this season, which is the most by a Tar Heel hurler since Sean Murphy fanned 125 in 1995.