North Carolina has only lost three times over the past month and one of those times was to N.C. State.
That game didn’t count in the ACC standings but Friday’s did. Ike Freeman doubled in a pair of runs in the eighth inning to give the Tar Heels a 6-4 road win over the Wolfpack.
UNC (29-13, 16-6 ACC) has won 15 of its past 18 games. It lost to N.C. State (31-9, 15-7) 8-3 on April 17 in a nonconference matchup in Durham.
It looked like the Wolfpack, the Atlantic Division leaders, would make it two in a row over the Tar Heels, the Coastal Division leaders, when it took a 4-3 lead into the eighth.