Dark pitched 13 total innings over the weekend and Barbee hit the walk-off homer on Saturday.
The game went down to the wire, just like Friday’s game, but this time North Carolina was the team scoring the go-ahead home run in the seventh inning.
The UNC softball team (34-14, 11-9 ACC) lost to N.C. State (23-24, 5-15 ACC), 5-4, on Friday evening in the second game of the series in Anderson Softball Stadium.
The graduate second baseman reached 71 RBIs during UNC's Saturday night game against Georga Tech, passing the current program record of 68 RBIs in a single season and helping propel the Tar Heels to an 8-7 comeback win. But a misspelled email almost prevented Rodriguez from becoming a Tar Heel at all.
UNC softball uses two different walk-up songs to reflect on personal journeys and identities and get into the right mindset ahead of at-bats.
Duke softball outscored UNC 28-10 during the three-game series. The Tar Heels were plagued by inopportune offense and defensive lapses.
In this episode of Hark The Pod, Sports Editor Caroline Wills returns to the studio to recap UNC women’s basketball’s season-ending loss to Duke in the Sweet 16. Assistant Editor Emma Moon and women’s basketball beat writers Megan Smith and Beckett Brantley join to break down the Tar Heels’ struggles in the matchup and reflect on the season as a whole.
Over the last season and a half, which included four surgeries, the redshirt junior guard has been forced to adjust to life on the sideline.
Lexi Donarksi scored the first 11 points for either team in the second half, propelling the Tar Heels toward victory on Saturday for the NCAA tournament's first-round game against Oregon State.
In their first back-to-back losses of the season, the Tar Heels struck out eight times, marking the most all year.
