CHAPEL HILL
Pardon the pun – or not – but Mike Fox and his North Carolina baseball team had been feeling a bit snake-bitten lately, amid more than a month of hardship and futility. Nothing, though, like N.C. State coach Elliott Avent, who recently found himself the victim of a copperhead bite.
“Had a little text exchange with Elliott,” Fox, the Tar Heels coach, said after his team’s 8-1 victory against Notre Dame on Monday night. “That was funny.”
Fox laughed in part because Avent is OK now. For a time, however brief, it was scary, though.