You won’t find many college baseball teams hotter than the North Carolina Tar Heels, who are gearing up for another deep postseason run.
UNC (43-10-1, 22-8 ACC), which won 40 regular season games for the third straight year, will begin postseason play on Friday in the ACC Tournament. North Carolina awaits either 7-seed Virginia Tech, 10-seed Notre Dame or 15-seed Clemson, previously winning series against the latter two schools.
Thanks to their all-star contributions during the regular season, several Diamond Heels earned All-ACC honors on Monday.
Pitchers Jason DeCaro and Caden Glauber, infielder Jake Schaffner and outfielder Owen Hull are all First Team All-ACC honorees, giving UNC its most since 2017. Reliever Walker McDuffie is North Carolina’s lone Second Team All-ACC Honoree, while starting pitcher Ryan Lynch, infielder Gavin Gallaher and catcher Macon Winslow are each All-ACC Third Team.
Glauber added another piece of hardware to his young collegiate career, earning ACC Freshman of the Year honors.
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Glauber quickly emerged to become UNC’s top pitcher, now sporting an 8-0 win-loss record, while hurling a team-high 74 strikeouts. Glauber’s 1.96 earned run average is third amongst all Division-I pitchers.
DeCaro is second in Division I with 10 wins, while carrying a 2.03 ERA (fifth in D-I) and striking out 69 batters. Hull is the Diamond Heels’ best hitter, leading them with a .370 batting average and 67 runs batter in. Schaffner carries a .354 BA and team-best 75 hits into postseason play, plus a deadly speed threat with 24 stolen bases to lead North Carolina.
McDuffie is UNC’s closer, leading his teammates with five saves, while his 73 strikeouts are second behind Glauber. Lynch is 4-4 with a 4.32 ERA and 68 strikeouts, Winslow is mashing .307 with nine home runs and 51 RBI, while Gallaher’s 11 round-trippers make him one of two Diamond Heels (Cooper Nicholson) with double-digit home runs.
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