Oregon State beats Arkansas 4-0 in game 3 to win the National Championship Can take a little bit of happiness that the Gophers played them as well as pretty much anybody has and did it on their home field. At the same time definitely feel upset that the NCAA didn't do a very good job on seeding the Gophers and think about just how far this years team could've gone. Definitely think the season would've ended in Omaha instead of Corvallis if the Gophers got that 10/11/12 seed they deserved.
My Beaver friends were super impressed with the Gophers and thought that they were Omaha worthy. I was sick when I saw the pairings. The SEC gets over seeded every year and it gets to be a self fulfilling prophecy when you put in eleven teams in the NCAA’s. A few are guaranteed to get to Omaha. There is good to great baseball other places than in the SEC.
I can tell you that our two frosh pitchers sure wowed the crowd in Corvallis and a big question was how they missed on recruiting Fredrickson. They appreciate good fundamental baseball and the Goph’s showed that in spades as opposed to LSU the previous weekend. The Rodent matchup should have been in Omaha.
The game last night was representative of the Beavers’ play the last two years. I got to watch some superb baseball. They played uncharacteristicly sloppy ball for a lot of the CWS and still walked off with the trophy. The weak link in the pitching staff coming into the tournament wins four games! Baseball can be crazy. Hoping for another regional at Seibert next year. This was one fun baseball season for me.
