College Baseball

After UNC scored the winning run in the bottom of the eighth inning of a 4-3 victory, Tar Heels coach Mike Fox spoke of a regular season that ended without a losing streak, and what it took for his team to keep coming back and answering defeats with victories.

N.C. State lefthander Carlos Rodon leads the NCAA in strikeouts, has won his past five starts and was named first-team All-ACC on Monday for the second straight year. All that sounds impressive, but Rodon’s second season has been anything but like the first.

ACC-champion N.C. State’s debut season under head coach Shawn Rychcik ended Sunday as the Wolfpack fell 7-0 to No. 5 Tennessee in the title game of the Knoxville Regional.

Charlotte’s Brad Elwood drove in the game’s first run in the fifth inning. Unfortunately for the 49ers, Saint Louis scored what proved to be game’s only other two runs in the bottom half of the inning.

It took the longest NCAA regional game in Tennessee history for the fifth-ranked and host Volunteers to beat N.C. State pitcher Emily Weiman and the Wolfpack on Saturday in the winner’s bracket game of the NCAA Knoxville Regional.

A well-pitched game ended on a bases-loaded hit by pitch in the bottom of the ninth to get Saint Louis an Atlantic 10 Conference victory Friday and even the series with Charlotte 2-1 at the Billikens Sports Center.

Charlotte hit a pair of home runs and hung on to clinch a share of the Atlantic 10 regular-season title Thursday night with a 10-7 victory at second-place Saint Louis.

Amid the best start in school history, back when North Carolina was putting together double-digit win streaks with ease, coach Mike Fox warned of difficult times ahead. He spoke of the adversity his team was sure to endure, eventually, and he hoped his players would handle it well.

How’s this for a countdown to next week’s ACC baseball tournament at Durham Bulls Athletic Park: Almost everything will be decided in the regular season’s final series, which begin Thursday. UNC and NC State can win division crowns. Duke and Wake Forest still have a chance to make the tournament.

Former North Carolina standout and current Mets star pitcher Matt Harvey is on the regional cover of Sports Illustrated’s May 20 issue, featuring a cover story, “The Dark Knight of Gotham,” written about him.

Brad Elwood drove in two runs and Justin Seager one to cap an eight-run sixth inning Sunday that helped carry the Charlotte 49ers to a 12-9 victory and a weekend sweep of the series against Dayton.

The Charlotte 49ers kept pace with the Atlantic 10 Conference leaders by winning their sixth straight game, 8-4, to open a weekend home series with Dayton on Friday night at Robert and Mariam Hayes Stadium.

Michael Zeblo hit two home runs and David Daniels and Andrew Barna had one apiece to power Davidson to a 6-4 victory Wednesday against the N.C. Central Eagles to wrap up the Wildcats’ home season.

N.C. State turned a third-inning error by Presbyterian (23-25) into four unearned runs and cruised to a 12-3 victory on Sunday to sweep the three-game series.

Former Mets’ pitcher star Dwight Gooden has been gushing for quite some time about 24-year-old former UNC standout Matt Harvey, calling him Matt “The Real Deal” Harvey.