There's no better way to end a Super Regional than with a walk-off, and Owen Hull just gave Chapel Hill the moment of the summer. UNC 4, USC 3. Season over for the Trojans, ticket punched for the Tar Heels. Omaha, here come the Heels.
The aftermath — dejected USC dugout, UNC fans losing it, final score on the board.
Super Regional baseball is the cruelest round on the college sports calendar. You win, you go to Omaha and play for a national title on ESPN every night for two weeks. You lose, your season is over by one swing in the bottom of the last inning. Hull picked the right side of that coin flip, and now USC has to live with watching the Heels celebrate on their field of dreams while they pack up the lockers.
Both sides of the moment captured in one frame — USC stunned, Carolina fans bouncing, 4-3 final.
North Carolina baseball has been knocking on the CWS door for years, and Mike Fox built that program into a perennial threat long before this group of Heels showed up. Getting back to Omaha is the bar in Chapel Hill, not a bonus. Hull just made sure this team cleared it the most fun way possible. Now the real fun starts — eight teams, double-elimination, TD Ameritrade Park, and one piece of metal everyone wants to take home.