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North Carolina State and Carolina have met many times in the history of the ACC basketball tournament for the championship when winning the ACC was more important that any NCAA game.  Today North Carolina and State met each other for the first time ever in any sport in a NCAA game.  All you have to know about this one is the name Carlos Rodon.

Rodon didn't give up his first hit until the fifth and by the seventh inning the Pack has score enough runs Rodon was throwing everything right down the middle trying to get the game over. By games end the Pack scored eight times and pounded out 11 hits on their way to their first College World Series win since 1968.  Rodon allowed a ninth inning run to spoil the shutout and finished up giving up five hits but for WolfPack fans every where this one is the sweetest victory over Carolina ever.

Nash County's very own Elliot Avent  becomes only the second N C State coach to win a world series game trailing Sam Espozito who has two.  Carlos Rodon becomes only the second pitcher in N C State history trailing Tarboro's Mike Caldwell who was the winning pitcher in both of State's CWS wins in 1968.

North Carolina must now fall to the loser bracket where they will play an elimination game Tuesday afternoon at 3pm against either LSU or UCLA who are playing tonight.  State has at least two more games they can play will meet the winner of LSU-UCLA Tuesday night at 8pm.   Should Carolina win Tuesday and State lose they would play each other in an elimination game later this week.

Coleman Pitt Post 58 American Legion baseball team has six games to play at home starting Monday  night and five of the six are conference games.  Monday they play Pitt County at 7pm the team they beat last week 8-7.  Tuesday a double header starts at 5pm with Albemarle the team that failed to show for a game about two weeks back. The double header will start at 5pm.   Friday they play host to Windsor  for a doubleheaded which starts at 5pm and finish up Saturday night against Creedmoor.  By Saturday night will will know all we are going to know about this years team.