Baseball Back Home For Pair Of Midweek Games

Tuesday, April 28

Chapel Hill

7 PM

North Carolina

Coastal Carolina

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April 28, 2026 | Baseball

Game Notes

By: William Soulé

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The Diamond Heels are prepared for their first double midweek slate since February, where they will play host to No. 9 Coastal Carolina on Tuesday and Queens on Wednesday before the players turn to finals prep.

Tuesday's top-10 contest against the Chanticleers is the headliner. Live on ACC Network it will be the highest ranked game of the day and one of only two ranked on ranked matchups to watch. The Chants will come in looking for revenge after UNC won in an 11th inning walk-off in last year's game. A Gavin Gallaher sac-fly scored Jackson Van De Brake to win it against the eventual national runners up.

SCHEDULE
#9 Coastal Carolina: Tuesday, Apr. 28 – 7 PM – ACC Network – Live Stats
Queens: Wednesday, Apr. 29 – 6 PM - ACCNX – Live Stats

No. 2 North Carolina Tar Heels (36-8-1)(17-7 ACC)
Head Coach: Scott Forbes
Record at UNC: 236-111-1
Record vs. Coastal: 4-4
Record vs. Queens: 2-0

No. 9 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers (30-13)(17-4 SUN BELT)
Head Coach: Kevin Schnall
Record at Coastal: 86-26
Record vs. UNC: 0-1

Queens Royals (12-31)(8-13 ASUN)
Head Coach: Jake Hendrick
Record at Queens: 35-116
Record vs. UNC: 0-2

PROJECTED STARTERS
Tuesday: LHP Jackson Rose vs. RHP Jackson Smallets
Wednesday: TBA

SERIES HISTORY: Coastal
All-Time: UNC 48-23
Current Streak: W1
Chapel Hill: 33-15
Away: 14-8
Neutral Site: 1-0
First Meeting: March 5, 1987

SERIES HISTORY: Queens
All-Time: UNC 2-0
Current Streak: W2
Chapel Hill: 2-0
Away: 0-0
Neutral Site: 0-0
First Meeting: April 11, 2023

DIAMOND HEEL DEMOLITION ON TOBACCO ROAD
➤ Carolina faced off against their historic rivals Duke over the weekend in Durham and came away with their seventh straight ACC series victory thanks to wins on Thursday and Saturday.
➤ Jason DeCaro dazzled on Thursday to lead UNC to a 3-1 win. His second longest outing of the year, DeCaro finished his 7.2 IP with seven Ks, three hits and only one unearned run, scored on an error after he'd left the game. Including his last start vs. Georgia Tech, he's thrown 12.2 innings while giving up just one earned run.
➤ Friday saw another brilliant performance from the Carolina starter as Ryan Lynch racked up a career-high nine strikeouts in a loss where he gave up no earned runs. All three Blue Devil runs were scored on one error.
➤ Saturday was an offensive explosion, as the Heels won 22-5 in their highest scoring game since 2010 and the most they'd put up in an ACC contest since 2000 against Maryland.
➤ After a pair of scoreless frames to start, Carolina put up a crooked number in five straight innings to run away with the game. Duke deployed nine pitchers to try and slow them down, the most UNC had seen this year.

ROAD DAWGS GOT BITE
➤ You can't get off to one of the best starts in program history without being road warriors.
➤ The Diamond Heels have matched their best start away from home since 2017, going 11-2 on the road so far in 2026. '17 was also the last time Carolina won all five ACC road series in the same year.
➤ They got to this point in large part thanks to sweeps in their first two ACC series on the road. It was only the second time the program had done that since the three-game series format was adopted in 1990.
➤ Previously, UNC had lost its first true road game of the year in each season from 2018-2024.

DYNAMITE BEHIND THE DISH
➤ Carolina's dynamic duo at catcher have been elite offensively and defensively, living up to the billing Coach Forbes gave as one of the best one-two punches behind the plate since Cody Roberts and current undergraduate assistant Brandon Martorano in '17/'18.
➤ Through 45 games, Winslow and Hynek have allowed just 15 steals on 25 attempts. That is tied with 2016 for the fewest stolen bases surrendered in that amount of games by UNC this century.
➤ Their 25 attempts faced in that stretch is the least since 2012.
➤ And its not like they've faced teams that don't run.
The Heels have faced the ACC's top-3 in stolen bases: Duke, Boston College, and Louisville.
➤ Those three teams, who have 420 attempts betwen them, went a combined 3-7 against Carolina.
➤ It was BC's only blank weekend of 2026 and the fewest for Louisville since 2024.
➤ Carolina also leads the ACC in SBA by a wide margin. Louisville has the second fewest allowed with 29.