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I'm your host, Tommy Ash. I'm joined by Greg Barnes of Inside Carolina. You're listening to the Johnny T-shirt.com Inside Carolina podcast. Going to talk a little baseball. Greg, last week, we did this baseball podcast in a preview of the regional in Chapel Hill. Carolina, of course, swept through that regional 30. Doing this podcast as a stare-down Auburn,

Auburn Tigers coming out of the Georgia Tech Regional, face the Tar Hills this weekend in

Boschheimer.

But Greg, let's look back a little bit.

Before the regional, we talked about certain players and we talked about certain trends that Carolina had going on.

And one guy that we talked about was Austin Berger.

And he had struggled, especially in his last couple starts, before getting into the regional.

Greg, he was fantastic and probably the difference maker in that

regional for Carolina, just a completely dominant bounce back performance by him.

Yeah, and I think the fact that Tennessee's starter, Lingerfelterter had such as a bad first inning.

That allowed Berger to take the mound with a 4-0 lead.

And as we saw, that Tennessee bullpen is really good.

They really did a good job kind of limiting what North Carolina could do at the plate.

But with Berger, having that lead, I think he was able to kind of settle in.

It was a little shaky early, but once he kind of found his groove, he was rolling.

And that's critical because North Carolina, as I said, really kind of struggled to find

offense after that first inning.

But because he was in,

he was in such a,

a rhythm, it really didn't matter. And whenever you're down

that kind of score early, you kind of press a little bit and

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