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February 28, 2021

Elliott Avent

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Successful opening week for NC college baseball teams

February 22, 2021 Brett Friedlander

The opening weekend of the 2021 season was a successful one for North Carolina’s top college baseball teams. North Carolina, NC State, East Carolina, UNC Wilmington and Charlotte all earned series sweeps while Duke and […]

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Play ball! College baseball returns

February 17, 2021 Brett Friedlander

East Carolina baseball coach Cliff Godwin has reason to be excited when he looks at his team’s roster, fully stocked with returning starters and bolstered by a talented group of incoming recruits. It’s an excitement, […]

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NC State baseball coach Avent gets contract extension

November 13, 2020 Brett Friedlander

Perhaps no coach since Jim Valvano has personified the personality of NC State athletics more than Elliott Avent. Homespun and charismatic, the long-time Wolfpack baseball coach is the school’s all-time leader in wins with 889 […]

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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 […]

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Wolfpack baseball sweeps through trip; Tar Heels, Blue Devils also play in Minn.

March 4, 2020 Brett Friedlander

While most baseball teams are headed South for spring training or a spring break trip to warmer climates, three college teams from North Carolina went the other direction last weekend, traveling to snowy Minnesota to […]

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NC again a college baseball stronghold

February 12, 2020 Brett Friedlander

In keeping with the groundhog’s recent prediction of an early spring, baseball season is already upon us. Pitchers and catchers might just be reporting to spring training camps across Florida and Arizona, but here in […]

Sports

ECU, UNC, Duke advance to Super Regionals

June 5, 2019 Brett Friedlander

The road to the College World Series in Omaha, Neb., runs directly through North Carolina this year, although it took a slight detour to get back on track for one of the three state teams […]

Sports

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 […]

Sports

UNC rallies into ACC tourney semifinals, Duke denied in walkoff style

May 25, 2019 Brett Friedlander

  DURHAM — If you’re going to have one bad inning in a baseball game, it’s better to make it the first one than the last.   North Carolina and Miami proved that Friday afternoon.   Playing for […]

Sports

State coach Avent wasn’t a fan of replay … but he is now

May 24, 2019 Brett Friedlander

  DURHAM — Elliott Avent was never a fan of video reviews in sports.   “I think it slows the game down a lot,” the veteran NC State baseball coach said. “And I don’t think they get […]

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