NC State coach Elliott Avent (Aaron Fitt)

With Heavy Hearts, NC State Wins One For Bruce Winkworth

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — It’s hard to put into words what Bruce Winkworth meant to NC State baseball, and what NC State baseball meant to Bruce. But I’m going to try to come up with the words anyway.

Bruce started working NC State baseball games in 1981 and worked and/or covered Wolfpack baseball pretty much continuously for the next three and a half decades, serving as radio broadcaster, reporter, public address announcer, official scorer, and sports information director. Two years ago, he wrote, “I feel quite safe in saying that I’ve seen more Wolfpack baseball games — somewhere just south[…]