Ross Atkins wasn’t expecting to get a call from Cleveland. Despite winning 10 games and striking out 91 batters for the 1995 Wake Forest Demon Deacons, he thought his playing career was over. Instead, he […]
The race to Omaha starts now. The college baseball season begins Friday with all four local ACC teams taking the field on opening day. No. 11 North Carolina and Duke, both coming off Super Regional […]
Wake Forest may have grabbed the spotlight early in last week’s MLB Draft, but the rest of the state’s baseball talent was eventually uncovered. At press time last week, three rounds had been completed. A […]
Wake Forest continued to dominate the first round of the MLB Draft. Demon Deacons were taken with back-to-back picks in the 2025 draft, marking the third straight year that multiple Wake players have been selected […]
The North Carolina to Omaha shuttle has been busy over the past few years. Since 2021, four teams from NC have gone to the College World Series, including a pair—UNC and NC State—last year. With […]
Major League Baseball reached out to its next generation of players with the 20-round MLB Draft, last week in Texas. As we reported last week, Wake Forest took center stage in the first round, with […]
The Cowtown Coliseum is normally home to rodeo events as the premiere attraction of the Fort Worth Stockyards, but, as host of the 2024 MLB Draft, it became Winston-Salem West. Wake Forest was the consensus […]
For the second time ever, North Carolina and NC State both took the field in the College World Series, each vying for their first national title. With both teams on opposite sides of the bracket, […]
There’s a reason they call it Mutual of Omaha. For the second time, NC State and North Carolina will head to Nebraska to play for college baseball’s national championship. The Tar Heels and Wolfpack made […]
While most people would probably think of basketball when the state comes up in conversation, North Carolina is no slouch in college baseball either. The Old North State had seven schools qualify for the NCAA […]
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