Pitt’s baseball season ended Thursday in ACC Tournament pool play when the Panthers dropped a 12-2 decision to top-seeded North Carolina (42-12), the No. 7 team in the nation.
Combined with an 8-1 loss to Wake Forest on Wednesday, Pitt was outscored 20-3 in the tournament in Charlotte, N.C.
The game started badly for Pitt when North Carolina’s Anthony Donofrio, Casey Cook, Parks Harbor and Alberto Osuna — four of its first five batters — hit solo home runs. It was the first of two home runs for Cook.
Ryan Zuckerman was 2 for 4, and Dom Popa recorded a double for No. 12 seed Pitt (26-29).
In the fourth inning, Jackson Van De Brake scored on a single by Donofrio, but Pitt rallied into a 5-2 deficit when C.J. Funk led off the bottom of the fourth with a homer and Ryan Zuckerman tripled to center field and scored two pitches later on a double by Tyler Bischke.
Cook hit a two-run homer before Harber scored on a groundout by Osuna in the top of the sixth. A single by Van De Brake drove in Alex Madera, who singled to lead off the inning and stole second, to cap the scoring in the ninth
