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SportsTalk: Minor League Baseball Update and Super Regional Recap

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SportsTalk 12:30 p.m. M-Th

Scout Hughes and Doc Ayscue give an update on Minor League Baseball from over the weekend with teams from North Carolina. The guys also recap the Super Regionals of the NCAA Baseball Tournament with 1 ACC team qualifying for the College World Series and another ACC team could qualify tonight. That and much more on SportsTalk!

Duke vs. Murray State – Game 3 of Durham Super Regional, 7pm on ESPN

Friday MiLB Scores:

  • Durham Bulls 7 Jacksonville 1
  • Charlotte 14 Lehigh Valley 2
  • Greensboro 2 Hub City 1
  • Winston-Salem 8 Asheville 1
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    • Charleston 8 Carolina Mudcats 4
    • Charleston 3 Carolina Mudcats 0
  • Myrtle Beach 5 Kannapolis 3
  • Columbia 5 Hickory 4
  • Augusta 6 Fayetteville 3

Saturday MiLB Scores:

  • Jacksonville 3 Durham Bulls 2
  • Charlotte 7 Lehigh 4
  • Hub City 7 Greensboro 4
  • Winston-Salem 8 Asheville 3
  • Columbia 5 Hickory 3
  • Charleston 5 Carolina Mudcats 2
  • Fayetteville 5 Augusta 4
  • Kannapolis 4 Myrtle Beach 0

Sunday MiLB Scores:

  • Durham Bulls 10 Jacksonville 2
  • Charlotte 10 Lehigh Valley 9
  • Greensboro 9 Hub City 4
  • Winston-Salem 10 Asheville 6
  • Carolina Mudcats 6 Charleston 2
  • Kannapolis 5 Myrtle Beach 4
  • Fayetteville 3 Augusta 1
  • Hickory 9 Columbia 7

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SportsTalk: Super Regionals Are Set

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SportsTalk 12:30 p.m. M-Th

Scout Hughes and George Hoyle speak on the Super Regionals that are now set in the NCAA Baseball Tournament. Five ACC teams reached the Super Regionals and one ACC team is guaranteed to make the College World Series.

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SportsTalk: Cale Bolton and the Tar Heels are ready for the NCAA Tournament

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For Louisburg’s Cale Bolton, baseball has always been a part of his life. Bolton’s been playing since the age of three, and last Sunday, he and his UNC teammates won the ACC Tournament with a 14-4 thumping of the Clemson Tigers.

“It was an awesome moment,” Bolton told WIZS’s Scout Hughes and George Hoyle on SportsTalk.

The Tar Heels face Holy Cross Friday at 12 noon in the first game of the NCAA tournament. If they win, they’ll host the Super Regional.

The right-handed pitcher arrived at UNC after playing on teams at Brunswick Community College and then Liberty University – both experiences that have helped shape him as he continues to develop as a Division 1 athlete.

With a grandfather, father and brother all big baseball fans and players, it was a foregone conclusion that Bolton also would fall in line.

His brother pitched for three seasons at East Carolina, and Bolton said he gave him sound advice: “Stay in the weight room, keep getting stronger, and have a short memory on the mound.”

Over the years, Bolton said, he’s leaned in to that advice and is happy to share it with others. “Don’t take a day off, always be doing something,” even on off-days. Hit the weight room, go for a run, he added. “Keep your body in shape and stay ahead of everybody else.”

Of course, his dream is to play professional baseball, and since this is his final year at the college level, Bolton just may get his chance.

But first, there’s the NCAA tournament.

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SportsTalk: Wilkerson And UNC Gear Up For Baseball

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SportsTalk 12:30 p.m. M-Th 

Former Kerr-Vance Player and UNC Baseball Coach Daniel Wilkerson joins SportsTalk with Scout Hughes and George Hoyle to discuss the upcoming season for the Tar Heels.

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SportsTalk: UNC Baseball Starts Friday

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Former Kerr-Vance Academy standout and Granville County native Daniel Wilkerson is excited about Friday!  Wilkerson, assistant to the head coach for UNC Baseball, is ready to get the 15th-ranked Tar Heels on the field for the first game of the season Friday.  “I can’t sleep the night before.  It’s like Christmas morning,” Wilkerson said.

The Tar Heels open the season with a three-game series against Wagner.  The first game is Friday afternoon at 4 p.m.  The Tar Heels are just one of six ACC teams ranked in the top 15 nationally including No. 1 ranked Wake Forest.  “We didn’t play them last year and I can’t wait to go to Winston-Salem this year,” Wilkerson said.  “The rankings are meaningless.  I ignore the rankings.  We still have to go win baseball games,” Wilkerson added.

Wilkerson is also excited about his team’s prospects.  “We’ve got young arms and a good pitching staff.  We are deep in the bull pen,” said Wilkerson.

Daniel Wilkerson joined the UNC baseball program as Assistant to the head Coach and Clubhouse/Equipment manager during the 2022 fall semester.

 

SportsTalk: Wilkerson Wraps Up Junior Season At UNC

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Colby Wilkerson saw much success during his time at Kerr-Vance Academy and that success has continued at UNC where Wilkerson is the starting shortstop.  Wilkerson, who is a junior this year, and the Tar Heels just wrapped up the season making it into the NCAA Tournament.  Wilkerson felt UNC was successful this season but didn’t quite get to where he had hoped this season.  “Every season has goods and bads. We always want to get to Omaha,” Wilkerson said.  Omaha is the site of the college baseball world series, and while UNC didn’t make it this year, Wilkerson did say one of the highlights of the year was his sacrifice bunt in the bottom of the ninth inning in a late regular season game against rival NC State to win the contest.

There were other highlights for Wilkerson including the opportunity to play another year, finishing the season healthy and contributing to other players success.  Wilkerson said that every game is exciting for him and that he credits much of his personal success to having a good routine that he sticks to.

UNC will only lose three seniors for next season which could mean more wins on the diamond for the Tar Heels. “We hope to get a little better and be the last team standing,” Wilkerson concluded.

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SportsTalk: Wilkerson Joins UNC Baseball Coaching Staff

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You may have heard the saying of going around your thumb to get to your elbow and that might be the best way to describe former Kerr Vance Academy baseball standout Daniel Wilkerson’s journey to get to UNC as an Assistant to the Head Coach and Clubhouse/Equipment Manager.  He’s been to Massachusetts, East Carolina in Greenville and Appalachian State in Boone before finally making it to UNC.

Wilkerson was at App State for only two months when he got the offer of the job at UNC. “My heart has always been at UNC,” Wilkerson said on Thursday’s SportsTalk.  His first season in his new role kicks off on February 17th when the Tar Heels open the season.  Wilkerson says baseball can be challenging in cold weather. “You’ve gotta get used to it and be prepared to play no matter the circumstances,” Wilkerson said.

One of the extra perks of the job is that his brother, Colby, is UNC’s second baseman, who is a senior. UNC is loaded with older players and Wilkerson expects the Tar Heels will have a great season but also adds the ACC is loaded with excellent teams from NC State, Wake Forest, Duke, Miami, Notre Dame, Boston College and Virginia Tech. “We’ve got to be ready to go no matter who we are playing,” according to Wilkerson when sizing up the ACC.

As part of his job as Equipment Manager, Wilkerson has to make sure players have what they need in practice and during games.  That can mean hats, bats, balls, gloves or even the right uniform, and he is excited about the newly updated weight room. It’s all part of a journey that started here in Henderson with Kerr Vance Academy.

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