Mike Fox

UNC baseball coach Mike Fox announces retirement

August 7, 2020 Brett Friedlander

Mike Fox has opted out as baseball coach at North Carolina. For good. The winningest active coach in Division I and the first to lead an ACC team to four straight College World Series appearances […]

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 […]

Season over for state’s NCAA baseball teams

June 12, 2019 Brett Friedlander

It was three strikes and you’re out for the state’s hopes of sending a team to baseball’s College World Series this year. North Carolina, East Carolina and Duke came up short on the road to […]

MLB picks must decide on college or pros

June 12, 2019 Brett Friedlander

College basketball has its one-and-dones. In baseball, many of the top prospects don’t even make it onto campus before leaving to cash their first professional paycheck. It’s a none-and-done system that has been in place […]

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 […]

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 […]

UNC powers past Georgia Tech for ACC tournament title

May 26, 2019 admin

DURHAM (AP) — North Carolina’s parade of pitchers kept trying to outdo one another. The hitters kept swinging for the fences. It added up to another ACC championship for the Tar Heels. UNC hit four […]

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 […]

Tenth inning rally keeps UNC in contention at ACC baseball tourney

May 23, 2019 Brett Friedlander

DURHAM — It wasn’t the most dramatic walkoff win ever. In fact, it was rather anticlimactic. But when it comes to the postseason, how you win doesn’t matter just as long as you do. For […]