![]() We’re here until we’re not.”īut maybe it’ll be the Ole Miss arms. “We think we can play five days in a row. “We don’t want to go home,” Van Horn said. That would fit an unconventional College World Series. This year, it’s on the long road of the loser’s bracket. Yeah, that package could work for a storyline, especially for a program that has been here 10 times before and is still searching for a championship. Still, from sitting in his pitching coach’s office pleading for innings to shutting down Auburn in the College World Series? “I knew I could throw strikes and I trusted myself,” McEntire said of his decision to ask for a shot in the spring. He had really good command and didn’t make as many mistakes as a starting pitcher usually does,” said Auburn’s Brody Moore. “I think wherever (Arkansas catcher Michael) Turner put his glove, that’s where the ball was going. “He left it all out there,” Stovall said. He blew away six Tigers in a row in the early innings 25 pitches, 11 swings and misses. But Tuesday night was a moment he had waited for his entire young career, striking out nine Auburn hitters while giving up a run and three hits in seven innings. ![]() In April, he had to lobby his head coach and pitching coach for a chance. He wasn’t even traveling with the team early. He arrived on campus for the COVID-gutted 2020 season, missed all of 2021 and won one game this season. 1 word to describe this team right now.”Īrkansas also presented one of the more striking cases of perseverance Tuesday night with pitcher Will McEntire. If we keep doing that, then good things will happen,” he said. “Just relaxing and having fun has been the message we’ve stuck with during this postseason run. □: The numbers behind Ole Miss' magical runīut now a lot of college arms in Omaha haven’t been able to get Stovall out. It’s hard putting that on kids that haven’t even seen a college arm yet.” “Social media and everything else, and you read preseason this, preseason that. “He wanted to go to college, and he just felt a lot of pressure,” Van Horn said. Stovall was the phenom who turned down the major league draft - and maybe $2 million - to be a Razorback. Stovall had some early-season struggles, partly a product, Van Horn said, of lavish expectations put upon him. “The game kind of tells you want to do every now and then,” Van Horn said. Freshman Peyton Stovall has 10 RBI in this CWS and is 9-for-16 after five hits Tuesday, when coach Dave Van Horn had seen enough and pushed him up to the second spot. They have the hottest hitter in town, even if he was batting eighth in the batting order until Tuesday night. They have won by 15 runs, lost by 8, and won by 10. Somehow, the Razorbacks could be the poster team for a College World Series that so far has featured blowouts and unsung heroes. The Rebels haven’t lost in a month, and the most compelling number going into these final days of the CWS is their 7-0 record in the NCAA tournament by a combined score of 64-17. You could argue that would be the biggest championship surprise package since Coastal Carolina in 2016. Maybe the last team put in the tournament field ends up the last team standing. Aren’t they supposed to win? But it’ll have to be Texas A&M, the only seeded team still in town. ![]() Perhaps it’ll be a team that was seeded in the top-16 for the NCAA tournament. you can do anything,” Auburn coach Butch Thompson said.ĬOMPLETE COVERAGE: Follow everything from the Men's College World Series here “I think playing those 10 SEC weekends with no breaks there, if you can withstand that, if you don’t get buried. They went a combined 0-3 in the SEC tournament. Maybe this will explain how good that conference is: Arkansas and Ole Miss will now meet for a spot in the College World Series finals. The SEC is as annual a sight in late June in Omaha as the summer solstice. As it is, the league is guaranteed a spot in the finals for the 13th time in the past 14 MCWS. If this were 2024, the entire final four would be 100 percent SEC. That’d have to be Oklahoma, the last non-member standing. Maybe the champion will be someone not from the SEC. No game has ended with the losing team closer than four runs, which has never happened before. Remember when the discussion was how open this tournament looked, how closely together everyone was packed? Then why have the first 10 games been decided by a combined score of 93-27? It’s been 71-16 after six innings. So far in 2022, no rain in Omaha and no ninth inning drama. So what now? Four teams are left in the Men’s College World Series, and there are scenarios galore for the final acts in Omaha.įor instance, maybe there’ll actually be a close game.
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