Five baseball teams from North Carolina colleges received bids to this year’s NCAA Tournament, but the big story when the brackets were revealed on Memorial Day afternoon was who didn’t. NC State was left out […]
A power-hitting freshman led his team to the ACC Tournament championship by hitting a pair of long home runs Sunday. But it wasn’t NC State’s Tommy White, who set an NCAA rookie record with his […]
The Campbell baseball team couldn’t wait to get back to the postseason after coming within a run of extending eventual national champion Mississippi State to a decisive winner-take-all final game in an NCAA regional last […]
The ACC was born in Greensboro in 1953 and still lives in its hometown. That may not be the case for much longer, however. New commissioner Jim Phillips turned heads and generated more than his […]
Duke baseball coach Chris Pollard gathered his players for a pep talk last week as they prepared to begin the final month of the regular season. “May ball is here,” he said in the speech, […]
RALEIGH — At some point early in NC State’s season-opening baseball game against Evansville last month, Sam Highfill looked toward his catcher for the sign, something he’s done in every game he’s pitched since Little […]
Some freshman athletes make the adjustment from high school to college faster than others. For NC State baseball player Tommy White, the transition took exactly one pitch. After taking a ball out of the strike […]
The sting from NC State’s controversial exit from the College World Series last summer won’t soon go away for coach Elliott Avent. But if there’s anything that can at least partially salve the still-open wound, […]
Every year, the sports staff of North State Journal (sports editor Cory Lavalette and reporters Brett Friedlander and Shawn Krest) look into our crystal balls and try and predict what some of the bigger news […]
Elliott Avent was once bitten by a copperhead while walking his dog and had to coach the postseason in a protective boot. He once performed an on-field spin move to avoid coaches and players trying […]
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