Category: Baseball

UNC takeover day on ACCN showcases men’s hoops win at Duke, 9 other victories in 8 other sports

When it’s UNC’s turn during ACC Network School Takeovers on Tuesday, you’ll see 10 memorable victories in nine sports from the last school year that aired on an ESPN channel. You won’t see the Tar Heels’ Final Four victory over Duke because that aired on TBS, but you’ll get a chance to relive their 94–81 victory in Durham to ruin Coach Mike Krzyzewski’s last home game (6 p.m.), a softball no-hitter, an amazing football comeback and three ACC Tournament championship wins.

UNC finishes atop ACC, 6th in country in Directors’ Cup

Led by the national champion women’s lacrosse team, North Carolina finished sixth in the final Division I Directors’ Cup standings for the 2021–22 school year. Coach Jenny Levy’s unbeaten Tar Heels team was one of eight UNC teams to finish in the top 10 in NCAA championship play to help the school finish with an ACC-leading 1,087.25 points. Her team earned UNC 100 points and Coach Hubert Davis’ men’s basketball team earned 90 for playing in the national championship game.

UNC’s amazing postseason run comes to heartbreaking end

CHAPEL HILL — On a bizarre day with two weather delays, no raindrops but plenty of tears as the day became evening, Carolina’s amazing postseason run ended in a heartbreaking fashion. Brady Slavens’ RBI single in the ninth inning gave Arkansas a 4–3 victory Sunday night to finish off a two-game sweep of the Chapel Hill Super Regional for the Tar Heels’ fifth loss this season on a game-ending RBI.

Heels power into regional title game with rout of VCU

CHAPEL HILL — Vance Honeycutt and Alberto Osuna powered into the UNC history books and led an offensive assault that earned the Tar Heels a winner-takes-all clash with VCU. Carolina, which defeated Georgia 6–5 in an elimination game earlier in the day, avenged a Saturday night loss to the Rams with a 19–8 victory Sunday night to end their 17-game win streak.

Missed calls, missed chances create rough road for UNC; Forbes suspended

CHAPEL HILL — Missed calls and missed opportunities have North Carolina facing a rough road to the Chapel Hill Regional title. And now they’ll miss their head coach for two games. After a pair of questionable umpire decisions ended early Tar Heels scoring threats, repeated failures with runners on base helped Virginia Commonwealth pull out a 4–3 victory Saturday night before 3,843 fans at Boshamer Stadium to extend the Rams’ win streak to 17 and end UNC’s streak at eight.

UNC’s runaway baseball train flattens Pack for ACC title

Carolina’s incredible 35-day run from 8–13 in the ACC with five consecutive league series losses to conference champion is complete. And the Tar Heels capped it with complete domination. The unstoppable No. 8-seed Tar Heels won their seventh consecutive game, beating No. 10-seed N.C. State 9–5 in the ACC Tournament championship game Sunday in Charlotte for their first league title since 2019. UNC (38–19) is playing like a runaway train and flattened the Wolfpack (35–21), which came into the game with lots of momentum.