— No. 3 UNC took its baseball series with No. 2 Georgia Tech with a 14-4 win in eight innings over the visiting Yellow Jackets on Saturday.
— Wake Forest hit five home runs in an 18-7 series-clinching win over N.C. State in Winston-Salem.
— Host East Carolina goes for a series sweep today after Ethan Norby and Joe Webb combined for 14 strikeouts in a 7-1 win over Wichita State.
— Brunswick Community College (33-8) plays the deciding game in its series at Fayetteville Tech today at 1 p.m.
— Blake Barthol homered for No. 7 Coastal Carolina in a 7-2 series-clinching win over Georgia State in Conway.
— Cooper Allen threw a shutout for host UNC Wilmington in a 12-0 win over Hofstra as the Seahawks evened the series.
— Cleveland, Denver, New York and the Los Angeles Lakers won first round NBA playoff games on Saturday.
— The Carolina Hurricanes won their opener in the Stanley Cup playoffs, 2-0, over visiting Ottawa.
— NBA playoff openers today include Philadelphia at Boston (ABC, 1 p.m.), Phoenix at Oklahoma City (ABC, 3:30 p.m.), Orlando at Detroit (NBC, 6:30 p.m.) and Portland at San Antonio (NBC, 9 p.m.).
— The NASCAR Cup series runs at Kansas Speedway today (FOX, 2 p.m.).
— Matt Fitzpatrick leads the PGA Tour event at Hilton Head by three shots at 17-under par going into the final round today (CBS, 3 p.m.).
— Atlanta plays at Philadelphia in the Sunday night MLB matchup (Peacock, 7:20 p.m.).
