Tudor: Heels beat the heat -- and Chanticleers

Posted Jun 8, 2008

What it was -- with a tip of my sweat-soaked cap to Andy Griffith -- was bakeball. With temperatures approaching the just-plain-ridiculous level Saturday at the USA Baseball Training Complex near Cary -- or might this really be the Carybbean? -- the Tar Heels ran through Coastal Carolina's Chanticleers like they were a Myrtle Beach mini bottle of No. 2-strength sunscreen. (Raleigh News & Observer)

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