Thursday, April 17
Chapel Hill, NC
5pm
NC State
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North Carolina
Wolfpack Heads to Chapel Hill for Series with the Tar Heels
4/16/2025 12:59:00 PM | Softball
RALEIGH, N.C. -- The NC State softball team will head down the road to Chapel Hill for its next conference series as it takes on UNC starting on Thursday, April 17 at 5pm.Â
Game two will begin Friday at 5pm and game three will take place at 1pm on Saturday, with all three games on ACCNX.Â
The Pack enters the series with a 22-23 record overall and 4-14 record in Atlantic Coast Conference play.Â
The Basics of the Match Up
Game two will begin Friday at 5pm and game three will take place at 1pm on Saturday, with all three games on ACCNX.Â
The Pack enters the series with a 22-23 record overall and 4-14 record in Atlantic Coast Conference play.Â
The Basics of the Match Up
- Thursday's meeting marks the 58th all-time meeting between the in state rivals since NC State added softball as a varsity sport in 2004.
- The last time the two met was in 2023 at Dail Softball Stadium and all three games were decided by one or two runs.
- In the last 10 meetings, the Pack trails 3-10.
- UNC holds the overall power in the series, as the Tar Heels lead 32-25.
- be the first win over UNC in the Leftwich Era
- be the 23rd win of the season
- be the 53rd win in the Leftwich Era
- be the 620th win in program history
- Be the 181st ACC win in program history
- be the third series win of the season
- be the fourth series won in the Leftwich Era
- be the first series win over UNC since 2013
- Hannah Goodwin - 14 hits from 150 on her career
- MaKayla Marbury - 10 hits from 100 on her career
- Hannah Church - 7 hits from 100 on her career
- Taylor Ensley - 8 hits from 150 on her career
- Tori Ensley - 28 hits from 100 on her career
- Sophomore right handed pitcher Carly Maxton topped her own career high in strikeouts with 12 in the game two win over Longwood on April 15. She caught 11 batters swinging and one looks. She tallied a career high six consecutive strikeouts to open the game.
- Her 12 K's make her just the second person on the staff to record a game with double-digit strikeouts in their career (Rylee Wyman vs. UConn on 2/17/24).
- The Townsend, DE native was the only pitcher on the roster with a 0.00 ERA through the first two weeks of the season, a mark that tied for first in the NCAA and ranked first in the ACC.
- In the March 11 win over ECU, she pitched all seven innings and 21 outs BUT left the circle for two batters, therefore she could not earn the complete game. She struck out the Pirates Morgan Johnson all four times she stepped up to the plate - each time catching her swinging. In the 16 pitches Maxton threw Johnson throughout the game, only four of them were balls.
- In the 6-0 win over Boston College on March 22, the sophomore picked up her fifth shutout of the season and it marked the program's 200th.
- The shutout in game two against Longwood marked the sixth of the season for the sophomore and propelled her into T-4th in the nation for shutouts this season. She joins Emma Lemley as the only other ACC pitcher to rank in the top-10 in the nation.
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