UNC baseball coach Scott Forbes suspended

The UNC baseball program has an uphill battle to climb in the Chapel Hill Regional if they want their season to continue.

After losing to VCU on Saturday night, the Tar Heels will now face Georgia in an elimination game on Sunday. The winner plays VCU again on Sunday night hoping to force a deciding game on Monday. Basically, UNC has to win three games in a row to advance.

But they will have to get their first two wins without manager Scott Forbes.

The manager was ejected after two controversial calls went against UNC’s way in the second and third innings. The latest got him ejected and now the NCAA is handing down a suspension.

Per UNC officials, Forbes has been suspended for two games by the NCAA following Saturday’s game.

In the second inning, UNC loaded the bases with one out before Johnny Castagnozzi grounded into a double play. Tomas Frick was called out for interference at second base after hitting his head on the infielder’s knee. That erased a run for UNC which would have tied the game.

Then in the third inning, Danny Serretti’s pop-up wasn’t caught by infielder Marcus O’Malley who slid on the infield. Both UNC runners froze and were thrown out at second and third base. Forbes was then ejected as he believed an infield fly should have been called. Instead, it was a double play that took a scoring chance off the board and ended the inning again.

The Diamond Heels and Bulldogs are set for first pitch at 1 p.m. ET on Sunday afternoon.

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