college baseball

JENSEN: The Fighting Peacocks

March 31, 2022 Tom Jensen

Every year an unknown school becomes America’s darling during March Madness. This year it has been the Peacocks of Saint Peter’s University in Jersey City who did it with their surprise run to the Elite […]

NCAA decision ends NC State’s College World Series run

June 26, 2021 Shawn Krest

OMAHA, Neb. — NC State’s baseball season came to an end early Saturday morning, hours before the players were scheduled to take the field for a deciding third game against Vanderbilt. “The NCAA Division I […]

Depleted NC State team suffers first CWS loss

June 25, 2021 Shawn Krest

OMAHA, Neb. — A season that has been improbable and unlikely finally jumped the shark for NC State in a Friday afternoon game at the College World Series that pushed the bounds of credulity. The […]

COVID scare impacts NC State at College World Series

June 25, 2021 Shawn Krest

OMAHA, Neb. — After waiting four days for their next game at the College World Series, the wait increased a bit for NC State. The Wolfpack’s game with Vanderbilt, with a berth in the Championship […]

ESPN’s eye in the sky at the CWS: Life as a drone pilot

June 24, 2021 Shawn Krest

OMAHA, Neb. — It’s a half-hour before ESPN’s broadcast of the Virginia-Mississippi State College World Series game goes live. That means it’s time to take Cinderella out of the trunk. Mike Shea carefully lifts Cinderella […]

NC State wins pitchers’ duel to advance in CWS

June 21, 2021 Shawn Krest

OMAHA, Neb. — For four innings, it looked like NC State would need to make sure their jerseys were tucked in and hats were on straight, because they were going to be the supporting players […]

Chris Combs, former NC State baseball star who battled ALS, dead at 45

September 3, 2020 North State Journal Staff

Chris Combs, the towering pitcher and slugger for NC State baseball in the 1990s whose public battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease led to more than $4 million in fundraising to combat the disease, died Thursday […]

MLB Draft’s first day loaded with NC picks

June 5, 2019 Brett Friedlander

A large haul of North Carolina-based talent in the first round of the Major League Baseball Draft was even bigger than projected, as six players with state ties had their names called Monday night. The […]

Six NC schools punch ticket to baseball NCAAs

May 29, 2019 Brett Friedlander

The last time East Carolina and NC State were supposed to play a baseball game, on April 24, 2018, it got rained out and wasn’t made up. It was a cancellation that became a point […]

The five key plays from the ACC Baseball Tournament

May 29, 2019 Shawn Krest

DURHAM — The North Carolina Tar Heels won their first ACC Baseball Tournament since 2013 and just their second in the last 29 years, going undefeated in four games at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park […]