N.C. State narrows baseball gap with UNC

Wolfpack clinches first series win over Tar Heels since 2011 with 10-1 win Saturday to close out regular season

North Carolina, which went to the College World Series six times in eight seasons, at risk of missing ACC, NCAA tournaments

Since both teams made it to Omaha in 2013, pendulum has started to shift Wolfpack’s way on baseball field

RALEIGH

Chance Shepherd remembers. The N.C. State senior was around in 2013, the last time North Carolina visited Doak Field. The Wolfpack went to Chapel Hill last year, and the teams met once in the ACC baseball tournament in 2014, but a rivalry that reached blast-furnace intensity three years ago merely sizzles today.

“They were the best team in the country…