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Datres Drives in Four Runs, Leads UNC to Series-Clinching Win vs. Radford

Posted by Avery Trendel | Feb 25, 2017 | UNC Sports

The 2017 college baseball season is still in its infant stages, but there’s no doubt it couldn’t have started much better for head coach Mike Fox and the ninth-ranked Tar Heels. A day after Brian Miller’s...

UNC Men’s Lacrosse Suffers First Loss of Season vs. No. 5 Johns Hopkins

Posted by Avery Trendel | Feb 25, 2017 | UNC Sports

As the third-ranked UNC men’s lacrosse team opened its 2017 season with three consecutive wins by a margin of nearly eight goals per game, head coach Joe Breschi’s Tar Heels looked like a well-oiled machine dead set...

UNC Whacks Pitt, Inches Closer to Outright ACC Regular Season Title

Posted by Avery Trendel | Feb 25, 2017 | Basketball, UNC Sports

The eighth-ranked UNC men’s basketball team came one step closer to repeating as ACC regular season champions on Saturday, going on the road and defeating the Pitt Panthers 85-67. Holding a two-game lead in the conference...

Miller’s Two-Run Homer Lifts No. 9 UNC Baseball Past Radford in Series Opener

Posted by Avery Trendel | Feb 25, 2017 | UNC Sports

The ninth-ranked UNC baseball team improved to 5-0 this season after junior centerfielder Brian Miller’s two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth inning gave the Tar Heels a 2-0 series-opening win over the Radford...

UNC Football Spring Game Set for April 8

Posted by Avery Trendel | Feb 24, 2017 | UNC Sports

College football has been gone for nearly two full months now, but the return of what has essentially become a year-round sport is right around the corner. UNC announced Thursday that it will begin spring practice on Feb. 28,...

Mitch Trubisky to Appear on Jon Gruden’s QB Camp

Posted by Avery Trendel | Feb 24, 2017 | UNC Sports

Back for its eighth season on ESPN, Jon Gruden’s “QB Camp” series will have a Tar Heel in the room for the first time this year. UNC quarterback Mitch Trubisky will join a group of seven top NFL Draft prospects...

UNC Handles No. 7 Louisville in Top 10 Showdown at the Dean Dome, Now Two Games Clear Atop ACC Standings

Posted by Avery Trendel | Feb 22, 2017 | Basketball, UNC Sports

In a physical battle between the top two teams in the ACC–both in the standings and the AP Top 25–the eighth-ranked Tar Heels defeated the No. 7 Louisville Cardinals 74-63 at the Smith Center on Wednesday night....

UNC Baseball Crushes Gardner-Webb, Improves to 4-0

Posted by Avery Trendel | Feb 22, 2017 | UNC Sports

The ninth-ranked UNC baseball team continued its undefeated start to the 2017 season on Wednesday, cruising to an easy 11-1 victory at Boshamer Stadium over the Gardner-Webb Bulldogs (2-3). Sophomore third baseman Kyle Datres...

UNC Warns Fans of Counterfeit Tickets

Posted by Blake Hodge | Feb 21, 2017 | UNC Sports

UNC is warning fans who are hoping to purchase tickets to the team’s two remaining home games to be aware of counterfeit tickets. Officials said in a release on Tuesday that several reports had been made regarding the “sale of...

UNC Agrees to Three-Game Football Series vs. App State

Posted by Avery Trendel | Feb 20, 2017 | UNC Sports

Thanks to a deal made public on Monday, UNC and Appalachian State will meet on the gridiron for the first time since 1940. As part of a three-game agreement, the Tar Heels will also make their first trip to Boone on Sept. 3,...

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