The UNC baseball team today won the first of three over Oregon State in the College World Series. One more win, and UNC will be the national champion.

UNC won 4-3 with a game winner by Chad Flack (pictures). Flack hit a triple. At the next batter, on a catcher error, Flack stole home base in the 8th, sealing UNC’s victory.

“I screamed for him to go…Fortunately, he had just enough of a secondary lead, and had just enough foot speed – one less cheeseburger – to get in there.” UNC head coach Mike Fox

Tar Heels should not get to excited yet; last year UNC beat Notre Dame 5-1 in the NCAA Regionals, only to loose two days later 3-0 to the same team.

The Rice University baseball team lost again Thursday to the Beavers of Oregon State. Rice did set one record though; with 23 consecutive innings with no runs, they broke a record from the 1950′s of the longest a team has gone in the College World Series without scoring.

The last 18 of 23 innings did Rice in as they lost two to Oregon State University. Rice was ranked #2 coming in.

With their win, Oregon State will face the North Carolina Tar Heels in a best of three matchup beginning Saturday on ESPN.

The Rice University baseball team lost again today to the Beavers of Oregon State. Rice did set one record though; with 23 consecutive innings with no runs, they broke a record from the 1950′s of the longest a team has gone in the College World Series without scoring.

The last 18 of 23 innings did Rice in as they lost two to Oregon State University. Rice was ranked #2 coming in.

The Rice University Owls baseball team have now failed to score in the last 13+ innings of their CWS appearance and it cost them in a 5-0 loss to the OSU beavers.

Because Rice had been unbeaten in the CWS until now they will meet OSU one more time (earlier OSU had lost to Miami, while Rice did not). Whoever wins will play the Tar Heels for the CWS on Saturday.

Rice losing today is great for the Tar Heels; had Rice won, the Rice/OSU serious would be over and Rice would not play until Saturday with the Heels. However, both Rice and OSU now have to play an extra game to play on Thursday while UNC gets more time to prepare and rest.

It’s honestly not been the best year for the Tar Heels – thus far no team NCAA championships.

Women’s basketball was great, but fell short in the Final Four. But just as you thought the college sports season was over, just as incoming freshman come to UNC for orientation, UNC Baseball is now inching closer to a national title. Today they beat Cal State Fullerton and are now in the College World Series (CWS) game. Should they win the best of three, they will be the NCAA champions. The Heels will play either Rice or Oregon State beginning on Saturday.