Not long ago, things weren’t looking so good for a North Carolina team that stumbled into the ACC Championship as a 5-seed, losing two out of three games to conference rival NC State to close out the regular season.
Eight days and four games later, the Tar Heels are the 2019 ACC Champions.
Extra-inning victories over Virginia and Miami, followed by a 13-run blowout of Boston College was capped off with an absolute gem by the UNC pitching staff against No. 2 seed Georgia Tech on Sunday.
Down 1-0 after four innings, North Carolina finally got on the board in the fifth thanks to a Dallas Tessar single that scored Ike Freeman, who got on base with a four-pitch walk to start the inning.