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Garrison Back on Top of ACC With 3-2 Win overCHAPEL HILL, N-C, — Steve Tucker’s fourth home run of the year in the top of the 12th inning' gave Gemson a 3 to 2 Victory over North Carolina Sunday af-temocxi and powered the Tigers back intofirs t pla ce of the At lari-, tie Coast-Conference baseball race.Clcmson is now 23 - 12. overall and 7 - 2 in league games white North Carolina foil 1o 5-2 in ACC games and in a lie wilh Maryland, who lost to N.C. Stale Saturday. The Tigers travel to Gerogia Tech for a Monday game and then entertain South. Carolina at home Tuesday,.’ Gary Fahrney, who .has played first base'as well as.'the designated hitter this year for theTigcrs, was lost for an indefinite period against the Tar Heels when he tripped over first base beating out a hit in the fourth inning and suffered a shoulder separation.: Fahrney. was- the second Clemson player injured on this trip, Second baseman Billy Wingo was h3L hy' a pitched ball in the second Duke game Fridayand remained overnight in.the Duke Hospital for observatiofi.'r • 1 *- Chuck Poiter won’his eighth : game of the season without a . Foss against (he!Tar Heels in . besting Bill Paschal!. Both pitchers went the distance before a crowd of 4,000.■ The Tigers drew first blood in the fcurth when Fahrney led pFf with a sif^lc\ Stcye Nilsson ran for Fahmey after his injury. On ,1he first pilch from Paschall after Ihc delayBill Foley slammed a .360-foot, twD-run homer, his sixlh of season.. .Tlw Tar Heels'scored in Ihe-v- t‘»T-V.. firth cn singles by Jim Atkinson . and WmBarkley.'aii error and a ;: sacrifice fly by Alike Fox/Chris Knepp.led off the North Carolina .sixth with, a single but was picked off first by Porter. Sieve Rackley singled and Randy Warrick and Berate Menapacc walked to load the bases Early JoficsgrojiMied out to score one run, but when the Tar Heels tried the double steal, Warrick was Ihrcwh out at the plate by Kurt Seibert. ,/■ , ■After Pasehall stuck' out the first two Tigers in the 12th, Tucker hit a 3 - 2 pitch in almost the identical spot that Foley had hit his heme run in the fourth.
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Florence Morning News
Florence, South Carolina, US
Mon, Apr 12, 1976
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