University of North Carolina Athletics
Carolina Rundown: April 16
April 16, 2018 | General
Today's essential Tar Heel news and links.
Basketball
Wayne Ellington is enjoying his homecoming, but happy just to finally be playing a big playoff role...Fun story on 97-year-old UNC basketball letterman Bobby Gersten, still going strong in Chapel Hill...The Sullivan Award will be presented Tuesday night, and Joel Berry's intangibles have him among the finalists...
Football
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Olympic sports
Baseball took the series at Virginia...Men's lacrosse fell to Syracuse, but the women's lax team defeated the Orange and then stepped out of conference to beat Canisius...Kenny Selmon ran one of the best 400-meter times in the world...Men's tennis whipped Georgia Tech and did the same to Clemson...Softball split the first two games with N.C. State and will decide the series tonight...Women's tennis waxed Virginia and whipped Clemson...Today is Boston Marathon day, and it may be Shalane Flanagan's last...
Today's games
Softball hosts NCSU at 7 p.m.
Long read
Interesting read on lifelong friends of Woody and Jean Durham.Â
Wayne Ellington is enjoying his homecoming, but happy just to finally be playing a big playoff role...Fun story on 97-year-old UNC basketball letterman Bobby Gersten, still going strong in Chapel Hill...The Sullivan Award will be presented Tuesday night, and Joel Berry's intangibles have him among the finalists...
Football
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Olympic sports
Baseball took the series at Virginia...Men's lacrosse fell to Syracuse, but the women's lax team defeated the Orange and then stepped out of conference to beat Canisius...Kenny Selmon ran one of the best 400-meter times in the world...Men's tennis whipped Georgia Tech and did the same to Clemson...Softball split the first two games with N.C. State and will decide the series tonight...Women's tennis waxed Virginia and whipped Clemson...Today is Boston Marathon day, and it may be Shalane Flanagan's last...
Today's games
Softball hosts NCSU at 7 p.m.
Long read
Interesting read on lifelong friends of Woody and Jean Durham.Â
UNC Women's Lacrosse: Tar Heels Win 9th ACC Championship, Beat Stanford, 12-8
Sunday, April 26
UNC Baseball: Tar Heels Dominate Duke, 22-5, for Series Win
Saturday, April 25
UNC Women's Lacrosse: Tar Heels Breeze Past Syracuse into ACC Final, 19-9
Saturday, April 25
UNC Baseball: DeCaro, McDuffie Lead Tar Heels to Game 1 Win at Duke, 3-1
Friday, April 24