North Carolina baseball

Walter Jenkins, 2 Deacons picked in 1st round of MLB Draft

July 12, 2023 Cory Lavalette

While the story of the first day of the Major League Baseball Draft was LSU teammates Paul Skenes and Dylan Crews going 1-2 to the Pirates and Nationals, respectively, North Carolina also made some noise […]

From UNC to ASG: Zac Gallen gets All-Star Game start

July 11, 2023 Shawn Krest

SEATTLE — At some point this season, every major league player has had to answer questions about the impact of the new rules in baseball, including a pitch clock to speed up games. For Zac […]

Wake Forest, Duke advance to baseball super regionals

June 7, 2023 Shawn Krest

The only thing that could slow down Wake Forest on the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament was the weather. In between rain showers, the Demon Deacons stormed to their third super regional in school […]

Wake Forest leads 8 NC teams in NCAA baseball tournament

June 1, 2023 Shawn Krest

Wake Forest, which spent the last few weeks of the regular season as the consensus No. 1 team in the nation, received the top overall seed in the NCAA Tournament. The Demon Deacons earned its […]

NCAA bids, hosting spots on the line as ACC Tournament returns to Durham

May 23, 2023 Shawn Krest

The ACC may be moving its conference headquarters to Charlotte and away from its Greensboro roots, but the league’s baseball capital remains in Durham. The ACC Tournament returns to the Bull City for the first […]

Mac Horvath leads UNC’s NCAA Tournament push

May 10, 2023 Shawn Krest

The Tar Heels baseball team has a busy stretch run as they try to make the NCAA Tournament. UNC took a much-needed six-day break for final exams and will now play eight games in 11 […]

Trea Turner leads impressive group of NC products on major league rosters

March 29, 2023 Shawn Krest

One of the biggest stories of the World Baseball Classic was new Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Trea Turner. Among the biggest free agency signings in the offseason, Turner showed what all the offseason fuss was about […]

Camels crash 1st round of MLB Draft

July 20, 2022 Brett Friedlander

Members of the Campbell baseball team fancy themselves as “a bunch of nobodies from nowhere” because of their remote location in Buies Creek and the considerable shadow cast by their nationally recognized neighbors at UNC, […]

Baseball season ends in heartbreak for Pirates, Tar Heels

June 15, 2022 Shawn Krest

The college baseball season ended two weeks early for schools in the state of North Carolina. While the state has sent teams to Omaha for two of the last three College World Series’ (UNC in […]

Tar Heels overcome suspension, join ECU in super regionals

June 8, 2022 Shawn Krest

For the second straight week, the story surrounding the NCAA baseball tournament in North Carolina is about who isn’t there rather than who is. Seven days ago, the NC State Wolfpack players and fans were […]