If you love to watch college baseball and you are a fan of North Carolina or N C State then Saturday had to be your day because it can't get any better than yesterday can it? Only if both win again today and both qualify for Omaha.
Any sporting event where two teams are very close to being equal there are moments in every game where you feel like we are going to lose and then there are those moments when you finally feel like you are going to win. In both games yesterday the Tar Heels and Wolfpack won in their last at bat.
Carolina batting in the bottom of the ninth inning knew if they didn't score that extra innings was not all that bad since it seems Carolina thrives trying to give the fans their monies worth. The last fifteen days the Tar Heels have played 14, 18 and 13 inning games and won all three so you know they felt comfortable if it finally went extra innings. Freshman Skye Bolt drove in the winning run and Carolina is one victory away from returning to Omaha a place they have visited five times this century.
The Tar Heels will send lefty Hobbs Johnson to the hill in what could be the Super Regional clincher for North Carolina. If you recall Hobbs as a freshman was left in Chapel Hill to go to summer school in 2011 the last time the Tar Heels went to Omaha. What an opportunity for the former Rocky Mount Gryphon as he will try to help the Heels clinch the Super Regional.
Raleigh, N C State scored twice in the first inning and with Carlos Rodon on the hill you figure that State scored all they needed but they would need two more in the bottom of the ninth to beat Rice. Never in the history of N C State baseball since the Super Regional have been in play has the Pack had one game to win to go to Omaha with out also losing knocking them out.
Rice knocked Rodon out with one out in the ninth and seemed on the verge of taking game one when State scored after a walk and then a safety squeeze tied the game and Jake Fincher single in the winning run. This is State's fourth Super Regional appearance and it the first time they have ever lead 1-0 in the best two out of three.
UNC plays at 1pm on ESPN while State will follow at 4pm on the U. Should both win Tomorrow they will meet in the first game of the College World Series in Omaha Nebraska
Sunday, June 9, 2013
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