The super-regional (a best of three tournament) pitted Murray State against Duke. Duke won the first game, but Murray State came back to win the next two.
Now Murray State, from the Missouri Valley Conference, advances to the D1 College World Series in Omaha. There, it will join six power conference teams (Arizona, Arkansas, LSU, Louisville, Oregon and UCLA) and Coastal Carolina of the Sun Belt Conference.
I have a couple buddies rooting for Arkansas and LSU, but, it's good to see a couple "mid majors" make it to Omaha.
It was a great series!
Minor typo in your NCAA link....here is the working one:
FResno State Bulldog baseball was a #4 seed in 2008 and won it all! “Underdogs to Wonderdogs”!
https://youtu.be/Kbg28WK4K_Y?si=XlQmnazdo2TBoPr2
Do they still use metal bats? Never could get used to that.
The CWS and Omaha fans always embrace the underdogs. I’ll have to go downtown and get my son a hat.
In the bottom of the 9th Duke was down by one run and had a runner at first. What looked like a routine double play to end the game didn't happen because the runner sliding into second took out the second baseman so he couldn't throw to first. Initially it was called interference so the runner at first was out and the Murray State players ran on to the field thinking they had won. But then there was a review of the play and the verdict was "no interference" so there were only two outs and the runner was on first. (He was replaced by a pinch runner.) But then the next batter grounded out and Murray State won.
Maybe it was delayed karma for the Duke students who were nearly sent to prison for a rape that never happened.
That was most definitely interference on that ground ball, the Duke player’s feet were at least two feet outside of the base path.
I started out majoring in Physics & Math, ending up as their very first CS graduate. My professors were wonderful people, and MSU was a magic place to be at the time. The Physic's Department's IBM 1130 was MINE. They even offered it to me in 1980 or so.