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Flack's Homer Keeps Tar Heels Alive At CWS

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The Associated Press

The Tampa Tribune

Published: June 22, 2008

OMAHA, Neb. - Chad Flack's monster two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth inning kept North Carolina alive in the College World Series with a 4-3 victory against Fresno State on Saturday night.

It's the second straight elimination game Carolina has won on a late home run. Friday, Tim Federowicz's grand slam in the ninth broke a tie in a 7-3 win against LSU.

The Tar Heels (54-13) forced another elimination game today against Fresno State (44-30), the first No. 4 regional seed to reach the CWS.

The winner of today's game will face Georgia in the best-of-three championship series after Rich Poythress tied a College World Series record with three doubles and the Bulldogs withstood Stanford's ninth-inning comeback try to advance with a 10-8 win.

After finishing 22-33 a year ago, the Bulldogs (44-23-1) will go for their second national title 18 years after winning their first.

Ryan Peisel's second home run in three CWS games and 12th of the season put the Bulldogs up 9-3 in the fifth. Peisel finished 3-for-5, making him 7-for-14 in Omaha.

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