The North Carolina softball team lost a 4-2 lead against Virginia (21-14, 7-1 ACC) when the Cavaliers scored three runs in the fifth inning to push the score to 5-4 and cost the Tar Heels (27-13, 5-7) Friday’s game.
Senior Danielle Spaulding led UNC the next day in its 8-0 win in game one of a doubleheader against UVa. and pitched her fifth no-hitter of the season.
Four Tar Heels hit home runs in game one, including junior Brittany McKinney who had three hits from four at-bats, to give the Cavaliers their first and only ACC loss this season.
But UNC allowed another three-run fifth inning in game two on Saturday, and Virginia took the series with a 3-1 win.
Softball loses weekend series despite Spaulding’s no-hitter
Danielle Spaulding threw her fifth career no-hitter in UNC’s weekend series with Virginia.
