Admit it—if I had told you going in that the team from Raleigh would be the only team to hit a home run last night, you’d have been a little worried. That’s a bad sign, generally speaking, and when facing a top-20 team like that, it typically reads even worse. Maybe the opposing pitching was just dealing, and the Heels weren’t able to catch up to their stuff, or maybe the lupine squad from down the road was just jumping all over the Carolina pitching.
Instead, it was the Tar Heels pitching that shone, and the Carolina offense supported that dominance without ever even having to leave the yard.