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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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— Carolina Football (@TarHeelFootball) April 14, 2018
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
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