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No. 16 Florida State Softball defeats North Carolina via second straight run rule
Florida State softball returned home to Tallahassee, for their final ACC regular series. For the first game of the series against the North Carolina Tar Heels, Ashtyn Danley got the ball to start. Danley began with a lead off walk, and a one out walk put two runners on. The freshman faced a dangerous part of the lineup, walking the bases loaded and less than two outs.
An error from the Seminoles infield pushed across the first run, as well as keeping the bases loaded. FSU traded an out for a run, and a groundout finally ended the visiting half of the 1st, with a 2-0 UNC lead.
Facing Kenna Raye Dark for UNC, Kaley Mudge led off with a single. After the fly out, Kalei Harding reached safely on a soft hit single. With Isa Torres at bat, the freshman shortstop put the ball in play, but UNC couldn’t field it properly, allowing one run to cross home.
Torres stood on third with two outs. Another infield single not in time allowed Devyn Flaherty to reach safely, and Torres to come home to tie the game.
Flaherty was able to scoot over to second base on a passed ball. With two outs, Michaela Edenfield made her return to the FSU lineup. Reaching down on a pitch, Edenfield drove in another run to make it 3-2.
Up a run with two outs, Jahni Kerr extended the lead with a 2-run shot to left field. The two runs ended Dark’s day, bringing in Nikki Harris. Harris was able to end the 5 run inning on a fly out.
Now working with a lead, Danley came back out for the 2nd inning. Leading off, UNC started with a solo shot to get a run back. A hit by pitch added a runner with no outs against Danley. A pair of ground outs and a strike out kept the inning at one run.
In the bottom of the inning, Amaya Ross singled and stole a base against Harris. A fly out advanced Ross to third base, and a single from Jaysoni Beachum brought in the 6th run of the game.
Harris and Danley kept it 6-3 through 3.5 innings, before FSU continued in the bottom of the 4th. Katie Dack led off with a walk, and a single from Ross and Mudge loaded the bases. A sacrifice fly by Beachum, and ground out by Harding added two more runs for FSU. With two outs, Torres homered for her second straight game, busting the door open.
Now in run-rule territory, with a 10-3 score, Emma Wilson, after coming on in relief, made quick work of the Tar Heels in the top of the 5th. A single from Ross and Mudge in the bottom frame set the table for Beachum, who sent everyone home on a walk off 3-run homerun.
FSU took the opening game by a 13-3 score, bringing their season total to 38-10 overall.
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It’s Duke basketball against N.C. State at the Lenovo Center on Monday, March 2.
The top-ranked Blue Devils (27-2, 15-1 ACC) and head coach Jon Scheyer are set to take on the Wolfpack (19-10, 10-6) and first year head coach Will Wade at 7 p.m. on ESPN in Raleigh.
Duke is coming off its sixth-straight win, a 77-51 rout over Virginia at Cameron Indoor Stadium. N.C. State, which has lost four of its last five, is coming off a 96-90 road loss in overtime to Notre Dame. The Blue Devils sit atop conference standings while the Wolfpack rank sixth in the league.
The Blue Devils own the all-time series against the Wolfpack 83-52 and sit at 27-27 on the road at the Lenovo Center. Duke has won six out of its last four contests against N.C. State.
Here’s how to buy tickets for Duke basketball vs. N.C. State:
Duke basketball tickets vs NC State
Duke has established a ticket waitlist program for men’s basketball games. Fans can register for the waitlist at GoDuke.com. Those on the waiting list may have the opportunity to purchase tickets, when and if tickets become available. Iron Dukes members have the first opportunity to purchase available tickets.
As for the secondary market, ticket prices for Duke’s game vs. N.C. State start at $72 on StubHub and go upwards of $712. On VividSeats, tickets range from $62-$1,156 while ranging from $63-$432 on Ticketmaster.
To see a full list of ticket prices, visit StubHub.
What time is Duke vs NC State?
Date: Monday, March 2
Time: 7 p.m. ET
The Duke basketball game vs. N.C. State game tips off at 7 p.m. ET from the Lenovo Center in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Where to watch Duke vs NC State
TV Channel: ESPN
Stream: Fubo
The Duke vs. N.C. State game will air on ESPN and can be streamed on Fubo, which offers a free trial to new subscribers.
Anna Snyder covers Duke for The Fayetteville Observer as part of the USA TODAY Network. Reach her at asnyder@usatodayco.com or follow her @annaesnydr on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The North Carolina Tar Heels host the Virginia Tech Hokies on Saturday night at the Dean E. Smith Center in a monumental game for head coach Hubert Davis and his team. Here are quotes from this week that carry weight into this contest.
Seth Trimble’s Aggressive Mindset
- “The thing that I loved about him was he was thinking attack. He wasn’t coming off looking to pass,” Davis said. “One of the things that I’ve told him is when you come off a ball screen, you’re 100% thinking score, and then let the defense dictate whether you make a pass or you go to the basket. And Seth’s ability to be able to get downhill, he was able to score, draw fouls, just a huge difference maker for us.”
- “And I feel like now that Caleb [Wilson] has been out, he’s definitely been more of the go-to guy, and he’s had a lot more opportunities,” Henri Veesaar said. “I feel like he flipped a switch in the second half of Syracuse and that kind of just carried over, because he started being more aggressive, getting downhill, and that carried over into the next game.”
- “The coaches have been on me,” Trimble said. “I know I said it; I’ve said this over and over again, but they’ve been on me just to go and just finish, you know, coming off the ball screen, go, look to score, you know, don’t look to pass. Don’t look to make a play. Go to score. And then things are going to happen from that. And then I’m going to be able to kick out, going to be able to hit Henri [Veesaar].”
Defensive Fortitude
- “We were ready – just being ready on the defensive end and making them score over us,” Veesaar said. “I feel like on the defensive end most of the time, most of the games, we control the way we play, and as long as we don’t make any [mistakes]…today we were talking, communicating the whole game. So that was really good.”
- “It was a huge point to try and slow down Mikel [Brown Jr.] and [Ryan] Conwell,” Trimble said. “They’re two incredible guards, two of the best guards in the ACC. So, if you can shut them down, you can put yourself in a good position to win. Now, we didn’t necessarily shut them down, obviously, but efficiency wise, they didn’t have the best game, and it made it difficult. So, I think we did a good job.”
- “[With] so many gifted guys that can score in many different areas, one of the things that we wanted to do is just make every catch, make every move, make every shot difficult,” Davis continued. “And I just felt like throughout the game, they got worn down and tired. And I think that’s why a lot of their threes hit front rim or air ball, because of the fatigue.”
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GOLDSBORO, N.C. — A rancher in North Carolina had a nightmare experience in a car wash recently, when wire fencing sitting in the bed of his pickup truck got entangled in the rotating brushes.
Kyle Corbett shared video of the aftermath on TikTok, writing, “Lesson today is don’t go in the car wash with high tensile wire in the bed of your truck.”
“I needed to put up more fence for my cattle, so I purchased this reel of high tensile wire the night before, and the next day I went up town to take care of some business at the bank,” Corbett said. “I decided to run through the car wash ‘real quick’ and didn’t think about that wire.”
“I never use that truck for any work. I went to the car wash and the guys checked my truck out for safety. I went through and that’s when all hell broke loose,” he said.
“It wrapped up half of the fence in just a matter of seconds and beat the hell out of that car behind me. It sounded like a war zone,” he added.
“This is not good…yeah that’s terrible,” he says in the footage as he’s filming the mess.
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