{"id":617118,"date":"2018-04-21T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=617118"},"modified":"2026-07-26T13:54:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:54:28","slug":"tar-heels-win-extra-inning-thriller-over-georgia-tech-to-clinch-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=617118","title":{"rendered":"Tar Heels Win Extra Inning Thriller Over Georgia Tech To Clinch Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/goheels.com\/news\/2018\/4\/21\/baseball-tar-heels-win-extra-inning-thriller-over-georgia-tech-to-clinch-series.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Chapel Hill \u2013 No. 8 North Carolina (26-13, 14-6) won an extra inning thriller over Georgia Tech (22-18, 9-11) on Saturday to clinch the series with a 9-8 victory in 10 innings at Boshamer Stadium. Jackson Hesterlee and Ben Casparius both were pinch hit, game-tying heroes on the evening as Hesterlee tied the game with a grand slam in the bottom of the eighth while Casparius tied the game with a triple in the bottom of the 10th before the winning run was driven in on a sacrifice fly to right from Dallas Tessar. <a href=\"http:\/\/goheels.com\/news\/2018\/4\/21\/baseball-tar-heels-win-extra-inning-thriller-over-georgia-tech-to-clinch-series.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\/4\/21\/baseball-tar-heels-win-extra-inning-thriller-over-georgia-tech-to-clinch-series.aspx\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Tar Heels Win Extra Inning Thriller Over Georgia Tech To Clinch Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Goheels.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapel Hill \u2013 No. 8 North Carolina (26-13, 14-6) won an extra inning thriller over Georgia Tech (22-18, 9-11) on Saturday to clinch the series with&#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-617118","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\/617118","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=617118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1921515,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617118\/revisions\/1921515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}