A By The Numbers Look At Day 3 NCAA Play…
8…Winner take all Regional championship games that will take place on Monday (CLICK HERE to see our full Regional scoreboard with Monday’s match-ups.
8…Teams that went 3-0 in Regional play over the weekend to advance to Super Regionals: Arizona State, Florida, Florida State, Oklahoma, South Carolina, UCLA, TCU, and Texas.
15…Years since Oklahoma had started NCAA play with a 3-0 record before beating North Carolina 3-2 to advance to the second Super Regional in program history (the format switched in 1999).
Oklahoma celebrates after earning the program's second Super Regional appearance. (OU photo)
2005…The last time a North Carolina team failed to get out of the Regional round of the NCAA Tournament. Mike Fox’s UNC squad had made four straight College World Series trips, but are eliminated in Regional play for the first time since falling to Notre Dame in ’05 at the Gainesville, FL Regional.
1…Super Regional match-up that is set. TCU and Texas will square-off in a rematch of last year’s Super Regional that sent the Longhorns to Omaha.
3…Runs allowed in three Regional wins by the vaunted Texas pitching staff.
32…Strikeouts in its three Regional victories by the TCU pitching staff.
1…#4 seed, Minnesota, that started this year’s Regional action 2-0. The Golden Gophers join the 2004 Pepperdine team and the 2008 eventual National Champion Fresno State squad as the only #4 seeds to start 2-0 since 2003. Minnesota lost 7-2 to Cal State Fullerton Sunday night and will play for the Regional title Monday night.
8…First inning runs scored by St. John’s en-route to a 22-16 elimination game win over Ole Miss in Charlottesville.
7…Runs given-up in just 2/3 of an inning by Ole Miss starter David Goforth in that game.
Jereymy Baltz (SJU photo)
24…Home runs this season by St. John’s freshman Jeremy Baltz after he hit a pair in Sunday 6-5 upset of #5 national seed Virginia. The win forced Monday’s Regional Championship game.
10…Runs scored in the first inning by Coastal Carolina in its 25-7 elimination game win over Stony Brook.
23-0…Dartmouth’s record this season when leading after 6 innings prior to Sunday’s 4-3 loss to Texas A&M. The Big Green lost after Joe Patterson homered in the 8th to tie the game, followed by a long ball by Kevin Gonzalez to lead-off the 9th for the final margin.
10…Home runs hit so far in Regional play by the Aggies after they hit two more in Sunday night’s 11-7 win over Miami to force Monday’s title game.
36 2/3…Innings pitched without allowing an earned run by A&M closer John Stilson. The sophomore (9-1, 10 saves) tossed 3 scoreless innings in the Dartmouth win, and then fired the final 3 2/3 innings of the win over Miami.
116…Strikeouts by Stilson in 82 2/3 IP this season.
6…Runs in just 2/3 of an inning by Oregon State starter Tyler Waldron in Sunday’s 11-7 elimination game loss to Florida Atlantic.
25-7…Final score of Coastal Carolina’s elimination game win over Stony Brook. The Chanticleers broke the game open with 10 runs in the top of the 3rd inning. They scored at least one run in each of the last seven innings of the game.
3…Straight at-bats with a home run by Virginia Tech’s Buddy Sosnoskie, who homered in his first AB of Sunday’s 4-3 win over The Citadel. He also went deep in his last two trips to the plate in Saturday’s win over Bucknell.
Tyler Thompson and Florida celebrate a home run. (UF photo)
3…Home runs by Florida 9-home batter Tyler Thompson in Sunday’s 15-0 win over Florida Atlantic. Thompson had hit just two HR all season, but had a power surge to help send the Gators to the Super Regionals for a second straight year.
3…Run home run in the 8th inning by Creede Simpson to propel Auburn to an 11-10 win over Clemson. The teams rematch for the Regional championship Monday night.
5 1/3…Scoreless innings pitched by St. John’s reliever Kevin Kilpatrick to help the Red Storm shock #5 national seed Virginia 6-5 to force a Monday Regional final game in Charlottesville.
2…Outs in the bottom of the 8th inning when Red Storm freshman Jeremy Baltz homered to provide the eventual winning runs in the St. John’s win. It was Baltz’s second homer of the game and his24th this season. He already ranks fourth in the St. John’s all-time home run record book (career home runs, not single season).
5…RBIs by Baltz’s teammate, Matt Wessinger, earlier in the day in a 20-16 elimination game win over Ole Miss. Wessinger finished a home run shy of the cycle.
8…Runs scored by the Red Storm in the first inning of that game, which sent the Rebels home and St. John’s to the Regional championship round.
Richie Goodnow is congratulated after his first career complete game. (Vandy photo)
0…Runs allowed by Vanderbilt pitcher Ritchie Goodenow in his first career complete game-a 7-0 upset of #7 national seed Louisville on Sunday to force Monday’s Regional final game.
68…Career appearances Goodenow has made. The win over the Cardinals was just the lefty’s second career start.
5…Runs scored in the 9th inning by Vandy to beat Illinois State 10-4 in an elimination game earlier in the day just to advance for the right to play Louisville.
2…Years in a row Vanderbilt has beaten the Cardinals in an elimination game in Louisville to force a winner take all Regional final. Louisville won last year to advance to the Fullerton Super Regional. The winner this year faces Florida State.
1…Career complete game by Rice’s Mike Ojala, who went the distance in his 34th career start to help the Owls beat Louisiana-Lafayette in a Sunday elimination game (they would lose 4-1 to Texas in their next game to see their season end). Ojala (6-2) had ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction surgery last June.
2…Starts made on Sunday by Washington State junior James Wise. The junior gave-up six runs in just 2 1/3 innings in an eventual 9-6 elimination game win over Kansas State. He then started and gave-up just a run in 3 IP to help WSU beat Arkansas 10-7, forcing a Monday Regional final.
James Wise
19…Wins this season by the Washington State bullpen with 6 1/3 shutout innings in the win over K-State. Richie Ochoa (2-2) tossed 4 1/3 scoreless frames to help the Cougar pen tie a school record that was originally set in 1987.
33….Years since Washington State last played in a Regional Championship game prior to Monday’s showdown with Arkansas in Fayetteville.
46…Wins this season by UCLA (46-13) to set a new single-season record after Sunday’s 6-2 Regional Championship win over UC-Irvine. The Bruins are headed to the Super Regionals for the second time in the last four years.
18…50 win seasons by Arizona State (50-8) after beating Hawaii 8-4 to advance to the Super Regionals.
19…Combined College World Series appearances by Florida State head coach Mike Martin (13) and Oregon skipper George Horton (6 with Cal State Fullerton), whose teams met in the championship game of the Norwich Regional. Martin’s Seminoles won 5-3 to advance to a third straight Super Regional.
1…Out and one runner on in the bottom of the 9th inning when Rico Noel homered to give Coastal Carolina an 8-7 win over the College of Charleston to force a deciding game Monday in the Myrtle Beach Regional. Charleston had beaten Coastal a day earlier.