tim cooney 20 years old.outstanding performance for him in blacksberg, virginia, against virginia tech. went 8 innings of shutout basable against the hokeys. and his e.r.a. coming into the came, 13th best in the acc at 2.97. facing a very powerful miami team here. and a groundball snared by the 1st baseman kroker. thrown to 1st and lopez did not apply the tag on the speedy zeke devoss. and more controversy in the gables. >> wicho: i think that's partially the inexperience of carlos lopez. take a look. good play by the 1st baseman here. did not look like it was too mentr, lotting his tart at base. we'll tahere, jaso that throw and at first glance to looks like it got away. lopez getting his second start at 1st base. i think it's just one of those situations where you are not there. it looks like he could have stayed on the bag and it would have been a much easier play. even though i think the bag would still slide. for the second time in the the ballgame this will go in the hurricanes' favor. looks like the wr

in tim cooney, freshman, saturday starter. a big start for him. possibly the biggest in his career. >> eriksson moves up in the rotation. >> and eriksson, unfortunately a guy who has had to battle injuries. >> an absolutely beautiful night for college baseball. important job in a man's life,at but it doesn't have to be hard. all it takes is a few minutes of your time. because the smallest moments can have the biggest impact on a child's life. the the hurricanes getting stretched out on the field with their traditional pre-game warmup tosses. you see the wind blowing out towards left field. no threat of rain tonight. temperature 76 degrees. relatively low humidity by south florida standards. just a few miles down the road you have the tennis tournament going on. major league basable starting. final four action as well. fielder. carlos lopez plays 1st base. la vanski kroker and the 2nd base man is mark rhine. for the hurricanes, scott lawson, frankie ratcliff, harold mar are martinez. glendale behind the plate. you see the hurri

we are leaving tim cooney out of the -- lead tim cooney out of the bullpen as he is making his 2008 appearance. he has started five games for the demon deacons. a record of 1 mile per hour 2. e.r.a. of 4.9. opposing batters .286 against man group who's first pitch is to zeke devoss. a fastball taken outside for one. miami has a runner at 1st base. frankie ratcliff who just walked in the 9th for tim cooney. he is back to the bag as van grouw steps off the rubber. devoss takes that low-and- outside. devoss is 1-3. struck out, stole a base and scored in the 3rd of the also an rbi double for him in the 4th inning to bring ratcliff home with miami's last run of the ballgame. >> we saw the first hurricane baserunner get thrown down at 2nd base just a minute ago. we will see if the hurricanes continue their aggressive ways on the bases. we have the leadoff player here with a good count to be running on. >> jason: good looking fastball. 2-1 on devoss. i mention the the stolen base for ratcliffback in the 4th inning. 9-10 stolen bases this year is frankie. nice size lead held on by lopez. and there he

cooney, you see grandal. cooney able to get the call into the outside corner.harold martinez grabs a bat, takes a curve ball in the outside corner for strike one. >> the other half of that story, jason, just for full disclosure, is the wind was blowing in like crazy from left field. ryan braun, which probably wasn't in shape yet, was hitting with a wood bat. and gran dal was hitting a aluminum. so he had a little advantage over brian braun. >> jason: always a little after disclaimer at the end of the story, as if ryan braun needs help from us in the booth. a former hurricane slugger. current milwaukee brewer. has had anout standing major league career. who knows what is in store this this guy. harold martinez came as a surprise recruit where he played. manny fernandez was a first all county senior. and last year as a freshman led rbis with 42nd starting all 60 games and nine homeruns. martinez building on that foundation as a sophomore leading the hurricanes 26 -- 6 homeruns and 26 runs batted in. miami leading 5-3 over wake forest. we are in the bottom half of

making life that much more difficult for the freshman tim cooney. cooney faces chris pelaez now. fastball, a beauty on the outside corner. >> tim cooney actually has not had the best control on the night. >> jason: swung on. well hit to center field. steven brooks on the run. will he catch up to it? el. back peddling to center field to bring it in. a nice job by steven brooks defensively. really couldn't say that for his teamnates in the inning with three errors. the hurricanes score one >> jason: well, the hurricanes leading wake forest 4-1 here on csn in the 4th inning. our pleasure to be joined by the hurricanes' head coach jason morrison. as we see this team develop certainly the style offensively featuring a lot more base running aggressively, a lot more base stealing. talk about how this team is developing offensively, the style you are putting to the. >> i can't hear your question. i just heard the very end of that. well, i think, you know, you think we just took advantage of their mistakes, basically, and put on the trail after the tomorrow any john surgery last year. the

in the acc a week ago with tim cooney starting on the road in the acc as he did this evening.rest was able to defeat virginia tech. there's a swing and a miss for two strike outs here for miranda. and also a victory at home against nc state. it marks the 21st and that one resolved. here we are in the tenth tonight. and three extra innings played the one mentioned as well and an 11 inning loss. it's 3-2 on march 17th. and a victory and a loss and one innings to ken state back in february. >> they are signature wins but much more than being a signature win if they aren't able to prove that. it's not that you are beating the hurricanes at home for the hurricanes but you are beating them having played what most people call a poor game. you a gave up so many errors in a ball game and getting in the way. and for coach walters to squeak this out and tell the young team we played as bad as you can imagine. it would be a huge victory for the program. for the hurricanes to say,, you know, we have a team in here that we think we are better than and we have more talent then they have and