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.

They came from the dugout. They came from the 'pen. From almost every direction they came charging before collapsing into a Carolina Blue pile near the pitcher's mound, the lasting image from a postseason run that none of…