A fast receiver and kick returner from Charlotte is headed to North Carolina to play football, and a tall, promising receiver from Delaware is headed to N.C. State.
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Cory Mazzoni scattered four hits over eight innings to help N.C. State stay alive in the NCAA tournament with a 5-2 victory over Georgia Southern on Saturday.
Will Roberts struck out a career-high 14 in a four-hitter, and Danny Hultzen drove in three runs on Friday as Virginia defeated Navy 6-0 in its NCAA tournament opener in the Charlottesville Regional.
Four North Carolina teams are headed to the NCAA baseball tournament, it was announced Monday. North Carolina received the No. 3 overall seed and will play host to a four-team regional tournament this weekend. N.C. State, East Carolina and UNC Charlotte also made the field of 64, but they have been sent out of state.
As the sun rises over summer's empty football fields, coach Tom O'Brien plays golf in Ireland, and quarterback Russell Wilson plays free-agent huddle hunter in Auburn.
Mott Hyde stole home on a daring play in the top of the 15th inning Friday morning, giving Georgia Tech a 6-5 victory over N.C. State in the longest ACC baseball tournament game ever.
(at Riley Park, Charleston, S.C.)
N.C. State found help for its weakened point-guard position when Alex Johnson decided to spend his last college season in Raleigh.
ACC baseball championship
Wake Forest was assigned the No. 8 seed for the ACC baseball tournament, which will begin Wednesday in Durham at Durham Bulls Athletic Park.
Coach Mark Gottfried is almost certain that his first N.C. State basketball team will have no more defections before practice starts in October.
Bobby Lutz prefers to have certain delicacies close at hand, especially during basketball season.
Matt Bergquist went 3 for 5, including two home runs, and added three runs scored and three RBIs to help lift N.C. State to a 9-5 win over Maryland on Saturday.
N.C. State is moving on without quarterback Russell Wilson.
Ryan Harrow, a freshman point guard, has decided to leave N.C. State and will transfer to continue his college basketball career.
Winston-Salem State defeated St. Augustine's twice Saturday, 7-6 and 3-0, to win the CIAA tournament championship and secure an automatic bid to the NCAA Division II playoffs.
N.C. State moved smoothly through its fifth spring football practice under coach Tom O'Brien, working out all of its major problems but one.
N.C. State has added a basketball recruit to this year's class but lost a commitment for the class of 2012.
N.C. State has released Joseph Uchebo, a key member of its 2011 basketball recruiting class, from his national letter-of-intent, according to school officials.
Mike Glennon's untested arm got quite a workout on Saturday during N.C. State's spring game.
Mark Pope pitched his fourth complete game of the year for Georgia Tech as it defeated Wake Forest 5-1 on Friday night in the first game of a three-game series at Wake Forest Baseball Park.
Coach Mark Gottfried, in only a week, has made slight progress keeping N.C. State's basketball commitments intact, but he'll know more next week, after visits with two players.
Bobby Lutz will be named an assistant on the staff of new coach Mark Gottfried of N.C. State by early next week, a source familiar with the process told The Hickory Daily Record on Friday. Lutz was in Catawba County on Friday to visit with his father, Bobby Lutz Sr., but did not return phone calls, the Daily Record said.
More than two years have passed since Mark Gottfried coached his last college basketball game, but his drive and determination haven't diminished.
At the end of every college coaching search, the searchers strain to win the news conference.
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