NC State coach Elliott Avent sat in the dugout in the middle of the Wolfpack’s game against North Carolina and looked up at the scoreboard. His team had double the amount of hits than the Tar Heels, but it trailed by three runs. Why? North Carolina’s first three hits were all solo homers, which gave the Tar Heels an early jolt on the Doak Field scoreboard. But, like the Wolfpack did in the series opener Thursday, NC State did not roll over when North Carolina’s long ball antics were successful. Instead, the red and white stuck with its approach — and it paid off. NC State used small ball and o…