June 22, 2011
Ragsdale alumnus Chase Jones is the bullpen catcher for the North Carolina baseball team. He gives News & Record readers an inside view of the College World Series. You can have Fenway, Wrigley and Yankee Stadium. I’ll take Rosenblatt.
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June 21, 2011
Ragsdale alumnus Chase Jones is the bullpen catcher for the North Carolina baseball team. He gives News & Record readers an inside view of the College World Series.
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Ragsdale alumnus Chase Jones is the bullpen catcher for the North Carolina baseball team. He gives News & Record readers an inside view of the College World Series. OMAHA, Neb. — UNC in the College World Series five of the past six years?
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June 20, 2009
This is a tough one to write -- it may be my last, it may be the next piece in preview of next season, it may well be gone and forgotten in years to come. What is fortunate is that I will never forget this team in all of my years. We lost, of course, and...
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June 19, 2009
OMAHA, Neb. — By the time you read this, we will have won or lost vs. Arizona State. Our season could be over, or we may be gearing up to play another day. That is the joy of an elimination game in Omaha: You have to play like there is no tomorrow.
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June 18, 2009
OMAHA, Neb. — One of the many benefits of making it to Omaha is the chance to get "adopted" by a host club. They do a vast amount for us during the entire trip, including greeting us at the hotel with a crowd cheering, making sure we have...
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June 17, 2009
I am not exactly sure what the difference between Sunday and Tuesday was for the Tar Heels.After Sunday’s gut-check loss 5-2 in 10 innings, the mood surrounding Tuesday’s game against ultra-hot Southern Miss seemed drastically different.Maybe...
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June 15, 2009
I think what defines a competitor is not the will to win. Many often think that winning is everything -- it is the only thing that it should be strived for, literally all of your efforts is going toward all that one can do to win. You heard it here first...
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June 14, 2009
As Saturday was the first day of games, and our side of the 8-team bracket didn't play until today, we had a chance to catch more of the sights and sounds of Rosenblatt Stadium from a different perspective Saturday: kicked back in the stands. We do not ge...
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June 13, 2009
OMAHA, Neb. -- Christmas may be 195 days, 7 hours, 12 minutes away as I write this, but for me and the rest of the team out here in Omaha, we had our own little Christmas morning extravaganza today. I think everybody understands why we are so happy to mak...
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June 12, 2009
Strictly business. We have made it again. However, the underlying theme to the North Carolina baseball team's fourth consecutive trip to the college baseball heaven that is Omaha is undoubtedly one surrounding the fact that we have been here before, and w...
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June 24, 2008
The toughest thing about our loss is realizing that the season is actually over. It's difficult; I have been with the same group of guys since the early days of August for literally every day minus Christmas break. It is over and done with, and for the fi...
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June 23, 2008
OMAHA, Neb. — With another wild win Saturday night, possibly topping the previous night's escapade, things started to take a turn for the better out here in Omaha. By a turn, I mean a complete 180-degree flip. Each day and each win seems like adding...
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June 21, 2008
There is a special time every baseball team experiences at some point in the season. This time is the always dull and never exciting rain delay. Scratch that. Not on this team. With so many creative, er, interesting minds making up Carolina baseball, one...
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June 20, 2008
Editor's note: Chase Jones wrote this postcard before Thursday's game. OMAHA, Neb. — Baseball is an odd sport. It is unforgiving. It makes men go insane with the little nuances that determine the outcome of games that mean much more than the revolut...
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June 19, 2008
Our day began with word that a member of the Tar Heels baseball family had been critically injured. B.J. Dail, a sophomore from Raleigh who left the North Carolina team earlier this year and was pitching in the Cape Cod League, was struck by a car Sunday...
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June 18, 2008
OMAHA, Neb. -- The off days here can be some of the best during the College World Series. Coming off a big win Sunday night, and with all of the pressure off, Monday turned out to be a great day just to soak it all in.
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June 17, 2008
OMAHA, Neb. -- I think the father of every player on our team got a much deserved gift Sunday night. Rosenblatt Stadium, which had turned into a miniature Baton Rouge decked out in more purple and gold than anything this side of Mardi Gras, was the site o...
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June 15, 2008
OMAHA, Neb. -- Friday contained three of the greatest moments in my entire life. In my 20 years here, I have experienced quite a bit, but I have to say, it was one day that I will never forget. To start, we had our traditional picture in front of the fame...
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June 14, 2008
OMAHA, Neb. -- In the hours before our first official practice at Rosenblatt Stadium, I feel I need to do justice to my role on the team: bullpen catcher.
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