After Tuesday night’s 10-4 victory at UNC-Asheville, the North Carolina baseball team hopes that they can park the team bus for a while.
The trip to McCormick Field is the last scheduled road trip of the regular season as the Tar Heels will close out the schedule this weekend at Boshamer Stadium.
The Thursday-Friday-Saturday series with Virginia Tech makes up the final three games of the season, the series will also be the final regular season home games for two North Carolina seniors.
One of those being catcher Jacob Stallings.
“He’s had a tremendous impact, on the field and off,” coach Mike Fox said about his catcher. “He’s a special young man and he’s turned himself into a really, really good player with a lot of hard work.”
The only other senior is relief pitcher Jimmy Messer who Fox said was the only player he’d ever had that won the team’s hardest working player award each of his four years.
The Tar Heels will have their hands full with the Hokies (34-18) as they are trying to make their case for a berth in the NCAA Tournament.
“I haven’t heard a lot about them except for that they’re swinging it really well right now,” Stallings said. “They’re pretty hot and they’re a pretty good offensive ballclub. They’ll be at their best because they have a lot at stake.”
The seventh-ranked Tar Heels will have to make the short drive down to Greensboro for the ACC Tournament May 22-27, but they are in line to host a Regional in the first weekend of the NCAA tournament. And if all goes according to plan, a Super Regional the following weekend.
