Official Site of the Tar Heels · Jun 10, 2019
GoHeels Exclusive: June 9
By Pat James, GoHeels.com
On June 9, 2018, exactly a year ago Sunday, a towering fly ball somehow fell harmlessly into the glove of Brandon Riley, sending all of Boshamer Stadium into a frenzy.
To Riley's right, the scoreboard read: Carolina 7, Stetson 5. The out he recorded marked the last the Tar Heels needed to return to Omaha. And considering no player on the roster had ever been there before, they celebrated with the sort of unbridled enthusiasm that one might expect.