{"id":5743,"date":"2013-06-01T00:43:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T04:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=5743"},"modified":"2013-06-01T00:43:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T04:43:14","slug":"nc-state-unc-each-win-ncaa-baseball-tourney-openers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=5743","title":{"rendered":"NC State, UNC each win NCAA baseball tourney openers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ncaabaseball2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ncaabaseball2.jpg\" alt=\"ncaabaseball2\" width=\"281\" height=\"187\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5744\" \/><\/a>The No.1 regional seed NC State baseball team defeated Binghamton, 4-1, in the first round of the 2013 NCAA Baseball Raleigh Regional Friday evening at Doak Field at Dail Park while the NCAA tournament&#8217;s overall No. 1 seed North Carolina got by Canisius 6-3 in Chapel Hill at Boshamer Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NC STATE<\/strong><br \/>\nJosh Easley took over on the mound with two outs in the fourth inning and went on to pitch 4 1\/3 innings of scoreless relief to secure the victory for the Wolfpack. Easley surrendered just one hit, one walk and no runs in the outing to improve to 6-2 on the season.<\/p>\n<p>Right fielder Jake Fincher got things going for NC State (45-14) in the bottom of the first inning with a one-out single through the left side. Two batters later, first baseman Tarran Senay launched his seventh home run of the season over the right-centerfield wall to give the Wolfpack an early 2-0 lead over the Bearcats.<\/p>\n<p>NC State will take on William &#038; Mary on Saturday at 7 p.m., while Binghamton will face Ole Miss at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The third-seeded Tribe upended the Rebels, 4-2, in the opening game of the regional on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gopack.com\/sports\/m-basebl\/stats\/2012-2013\/raleigh2.html#GAME.NCA\" target=\"_blank\">Boxscore<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>NORTH CAROLINA<\/strong><br \/>\nCatcher Brian Holberton drove in a pair of runs and Chaz Frank, who had three hits, drove in a run late to help the Heels to the 6-3 win over Canisius. Charlotte freshman Trent Thornton got the Tar Heels out of their biggest jam in the eighth after Canisius loaded the bases with one out in a 4-3 game.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina will face third-seeded Towson on Saturday at 6 p.m. after second-seeded Florida Atlantic and Canisius meet in an elimination game at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goheels.com\/ViewContent.dbml?SPSID=668152&#038;SPID=12960&#038;CONTENT_ID=750946&#038;DB_OEM_ID=3350#GAME.NCA\" target=\"_blank\">Boxscore<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The No.1 regional seed NC State baseball team defeated Binghamton, 4-1, in the first round of the 2013 NCAA Baseball Raleigh Regional Friday evening at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,81,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-81-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5745,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions\/5745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}