UNC fresh off the ACC baseball Tournament title has earned the top spot in this year NCAA Baseball Tournament. N C State is seeded ninth which means they will join Carolina in hosting a Regional this weekend but will have to hit the road in two weeks if they survive their Regional. Elon and UNC Wimington are the only other two teams from North Carolina in the field.
That leaves Campbell with their greatest season ever at home after they played for their conference title on Saturday and lost to Liberty who made the tournament. Campbell was in the winners bracket and Liberty in the double elimination tournament survived to play Campbell in a one game winner take all and Liberty won 2-1. So Campbell lost only once in their conference tournament and that one loss knocked them out of the Tournament.
Eddie Loesner the baseball coach at Northern Nash has resigned and will not return next season as baseball coach. Thinking out loud here but if he turns in an application I think Greg Clifton the former Northern assistant and now the head coach at Faith Christian would be a very good choice. He has been within the program before and has in his two years at Faith raised baseball up at Faith.
I am surprised some what that there has not been an up roar from those that attended the State -Carolina game last Saturday night in Durham. Any tournament you go too theses days will clear the stadium out between games because they sell individual tickets and there are those who buy tickets for all games. They clear everyone out to get the single game ticket holders out so the new batch of single game ticket holders don't have to fight for their seat.
Since TV wanted to get the game started as close as possible to 7pm and the two earlier games had the 7pm game late all 11,000 fans going to the State -Carolina game had to get their tickets scanned and through the gates after everyone from the second game got out. The normal procedure between games is 51 minutes there was not enough time to get the previous crowd out and the monster crowd in by 51 minutes. A couple of thousand who had already been waiting outside a couple of hours to get in didn't get to see the first pitch.
There is one advantage for North Carolina teams playing close to home and of course their fans flock to see the games where hardly any other team has any. The disadvantage is knowing that State-Carolina will draw huge crowds and Saturday's game ending at near 2am Carolina had little time to rest before Sunday's championship game at 1pm.
Monday, May 27, 2013
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