After a promising 3-0 start to the week, and wins in eight of their last nine games, the North Carolina Tar Heels dropped three of four games and a weekend series to the Pittsburgh Panthers.
The Tar Heels put 10 runs on the board in their loan victory over the Panthers, but mustered just nine combined runs in two weekend losses to Pitt and a Thursday night defeat to in-state rival East Carolina.
The loss to East Carolina in the teams’ only matchup of the season was a respectable one, given that the 9-5 defeat came to a 37-11 Pirates team that’s ranked No.