{"id":575557,"date":"2018-02-10T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=575557"},"modified":"2026-07-26T13:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:56:02","slug":"tar-heels-win-season-opener-defeat-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=575557","title":{"rendered":"Tar Heels Win Season Opener, Defeat Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/goheels.com\/news\/2018\/2\/10\/softball-tar-heels-win-season-opener-defeat-butler.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>LONGWOOD, Fla. \u2013  Registering 12 hits in the season opener, North Carolina topped Butler, 7-4, to begin the UCF Friends of Jaclyn Tournament Saturday afternoon at Soldiers Creek Park. The Tar Heels (1-0) struck early with three runs in the first inning and reclaimed the lead in the fourth thanks to a Brittany Pickett home run in route to a 7-4 win over the Bulldogs (0-3). <a href=\"http:\/\/goheels.com\/news\/2018\/2\/10\/softball-tar-heels-win-season-opener-defeat-butler.aspx\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/goheels.com\/news\/2018\/2\/10\/softball-tar-heels-win-season-opener-defeat-butler.aspx\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Tar Heels Win Season Opener, Defeat Butler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Goheels.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGWOOD, Fla. \u2013 Registering 12 hits in the season opener, North Carolina topped Butler, 7-4, to begin the UCF Friends of Jaclyn Tournament Saturday afternoon 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":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575557","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=575557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1921716,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575557\/revisions\/1921716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=575557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=575557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=575557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}