Brian Brown threw 44 pitches in the first inning, and even that wasn’t enough to get three outs, as North Carolina took advantage of a lot of high fastballs and Brown’s dropped pop up to rout NC State before the first inning was over. A later error on Will Wilson on a routine grounder to second helped the Heels enjoy a 10-0 lead after one, with eight, count ‘em EIGHT of those runs being unearned. Three hours later the stinker mercifully came to an end with the Pack on the wrong end of a 12-4 final.
If there was a silver lining, and there really wasn’t, it was that the Pack won the earned run battle 4-3.