![CHAPEL HILL – UNC’s Cody Roberts blasted a three-run homerun to left in the fifth inning to put the Tar Heels up for good as the home team held on to defeat Stetson in the first game of a best-of-three series in the NCAA Super Regional. The 7-4 victory puts the Heels one win away from the NCAA Championship tournament in Omaha, Neb. Stetson, riding the nation’s longest win streak at 18 games, got off to a quick 1-0 in the first inning with a line-drive homer to right by lefty Mike Spooner. Carolina answered in the bottom of the […]](http://capitalsportsnc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180608_165820-490x225.jpg "Roberts’ blast puts Carolina up for good in Game 1 of Super Regional")
![Clifton Barnes, the owner of CapitalSportsNC.com, has won a national award for writing for a series of articles on the website. CapitalSportsNC.com has now won awards four years in a row. The series of articles revolves around former University of North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith won an Award of Excellence from the DC area-based Communications Concepts through its 2016 Awards for Publication Excellence competition. John De Lellis of Communications Concepts says competition was intense as there were more than 1,600 entries with seven winners in the Writing Series category. Barnes was the only winner in the category from North […]](http://capitalsportsnc.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/CliftonBarnes2016capitalsportsnc-490x225.jpg "CapitalSportsNC.com wins national award for writing")
Dries Mertens’ perfectly struck volley finally opened up Panama and allowed Romelu Lukaku to take full advantage. …read more
Source:: WRAL
Belgium wakes up in 2nd half, rolls past Panama 3-0
– June 18, 2018Posted in: Featured stories
![CHAPEL HILL, NC – For the first time since 2013, North Carolina will go to Omaha to compete in the College World Series after defeating Stetson 7-5 in the Super Regionals. The Tar Heels jumped on the Hatters with four runs on six hits in the first inning. Cody Roberts started the scoring with a bloop double to left that plated Kyle Datris. Then Brandon Riley pulled a double to right field to score Roberts. Zack Gahagan singled to left center to score Riley. Carolina increased the lead to 4-0 as Ashton McGee, a lefty, hit an opposite field double […]](http://capitalsportsnc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180609_154432-490x225.jpg "Big first inning helps push Tar Heels to the College World Series")
Big first inning helps push Tar Heels to the College World Series
CHAPEL HILL, NC – For the first time since 2013, North Carolina will go to Omaha to compete in the College World Series after defeating Stetson 7-5 in the Super Regionals. The Tar Heels jumped on the Hatters with four runs on six hits in the first inning. Cody Roberts started the scoring with a bloop double to left that plated Kyle Datris. Then Brandon Riley pulled a double to right field to score Roberts. Zack Gahagan singled to left center to score Riley. Carolina increased the lead to 4-0 as Ashton McGee, a lefty, hit an opposite field double […]
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Bagley, Porter headline list of top forwards in NBA draft
– June 18, 2018Posted in: Featured stories
Marvin Bagley III dominated at Duke, while fellow freshman Michael Porter Jr. barely saw action at Missouri due to injury. Yet they’ll likely be the first forwards to hear their names called during Thursday’s draft. …read more
Source:: WRAL
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Winterville power forward commits to play at UNC
– June 18, 2018Posted in: Featured stories
Day-Ron Sharpe, a rising junior at South Central High School in Winterville, made a verbal commitment over the weekend to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. …read more
Source:: High School OT
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Report: Former NC State basketball player Hickson charged in Georgia home invasion
– June 18, 2018Posted in: Featured stories
Former North Carolina State University and NBA forward J.J. Hickson has been charged in connection with an armed robbery in Georgia. …read more
Source:: WRAL
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UNC faces walk-off happy Bulldogs in key CWS game
– June 18, 2018Posted in: Featured stories
Coming off the longest nine-inning game in College World Series history, the North Carolina Tar Heels are back in action Monday night against a Mississippi State squad that has made walk-off wins its calling card this postseason. …read more
Source:: WRAL
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Column: Koepka wins an Open where the whiners go home early
– June 18, 2018Posted in: Featured stories
The whiners went home early, beaten down by Shinnecock Hills and the USGA’s clumsy efforts to turn the venerable golf course into something it was never meant to be. …read more
Source:: WRAL
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Texas Tech stuns Gators 6-3 in College World Series opener
– June 18, 2018Posted in: Featured stories
Texas Tech cleared the hurdle of winning a College World Series opener. It was a high one, too. …read more
Source:: WRAL
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