Stony Brook headed to CWS when beating LSU 7-2
For a bit whereas, at least, upstart Stony Brook is grabbing the sort of attention typically reserved for Derek Jeter, David Wright and also the huge league stars in ny.
"Our motto is: 'Shock the planet and win the last game of the season,'" said center fielder Travis Jankowski, the Seawolves' leading hitter at .422 and also the forty fourth overall choice in last week's Major League Baseball amateur draft. "So as long as we have a tendency to do this, we should always be alright from here on out."
That may appear to be a tall order as previously unheralded Stony Brook heads to its 1st school World Series in Omaha, a visit the Seawolves clinched with a 7-2 victory over six-time national champion LSU on Sunday night. Then again, to listen to the Tigers speak, the Seawolves are for real — a real threat to travel all the means, very little quite a decade when joining the ranks of Division I baseball in 2000.
"They outplayed us extremely in each part of the sport," LSU coach Paul Mainieri said. "The individuals within the South haven't heard a lot of regarding Stony Brook, however they apprehend who they're currently.
"They gained an awful heap of respect not solely down here however nationwide," Mainieri continued. "That team will play with anybody."
The Seawolves are {the 1st|the primary} team from ny State to achieve the faculty World Series since 1980 and also the first team from the Northeast since Maine in 1986.
Stony Brook demonstrated that with relentless hitting and stifling pitching against LSU. Starter Frankie Vanderka bounced back from a Game one loss in a very relief role and threw a complete-game three-hitter within the series clincher. Travis Jankowski had four hits and scored 2 runs, whereas Maxx Tissenbaum drove in 3 runs with a try of doubles.
When Vanderka's fifth strikeout ended the sport, and he was buried underneath a celebratory dog pile moments afterward, it had been a surreal sight for Stony Brook coach Matt Senk, who recalled "doing backflips" when he was 1st employed at then-Division III Stony Brook in 1991. Some twenty two seasons later, he is headed for faculty baseball's promised land on the heels of stopping the mighty Tigers from booking their sixteenth look in Omaha.
"I'm a bit overwhelmed, quite frankly, as a result of i feel I do apprehend the magnitude of this," Senk said, describing how former LSU coach Skip Bertman, winner of 5 national titles, congratulated him when the sport. "To create it to Omaha (is) each school baseball team's dream, each school baseball coach's dream and it's return to fruition. And to try and do it against LSU, Alex Box Stadium ... to shake coach Bertman's hand on the means in. Oh my God. Having that man congratulate me for planning to the faculty World Series, it's simply unbelievable."
Stony Brook, that has won twenty eight of thirty and can face UCLA within the gap game in Omaha, became solely the second team to open the tournament as a No. four seed within the regional spherical and reach the faculty World Series. the primary was Fresno State in 2008 that went on to win the national title.
This Stony Brook squad, that beat host Miami in winning the Coral Gables Regional, simply may be ok to repeat that feat. taking part in before crowds of ten,000-plus sporting LSU purple-and-gold, the Seawolves did not just survive such a lot as thrive, outhitting LSU 35-15 within the series.
The only time the Seawolves (52-13) trailed within the 3 games was when Mason Katz hit a walk-off single to finish an exciting Game one within the bottom of the twelfth, and outhit LSU 15-3 within the series finale.
"They played phenomenal defense," said LSU's Raph Rhymes, who went 1-for-13 within the series when coming back in hitting .452. "We hit balls onerous, however they solely found gloves tonight. you have got to grant credit to Stony Brook, to their pitching and to their defense."
While Stony Brook might are a relative unknown before this riveting postseason run, professional baseball scouts were quite aware of them. Seven Seawolves were selected in last week's Major League Baseball draft (compared to 5 from LSU). they need eight players with 168 or a lot of at-bats hitting .300 or higher.
Asked if he realized what a sensation the Seawolves had become, Jankowski said, "The solely issue i do know is we're trending on Twitter currently."
Then the self-effacing Senk interjected, "I do not know what which means," drawing laughs from his players.
Mainieri and also the Tigers insisted Stony Brook was "legit," pretty much as good as anyone they play within the Southeastern Conference. Still, the Tigers hoped that taking part in at home, where one overflow crowd regarding matched Stony Brook's home attendance for the complete season, would be a definite advantage. After all, LSU (47-18) came into the series 8-0 in NCAA tournament games at the present Alex Box since it opened in 2009.
Stony Brook's 3-1 Game two win behind ace Tyler Johnson's three-hitter ended that streak, however LSU was still assured it might fare higher as Stony Brook went deeper into its rotation.
The Tigers had hit Vanderka when he was referred to as upon for the twelfth inning of Game one, and Katz pounded a solo home flee Vanderka within the bottom of the primary inning Sunday to tie it 1-1.
However, Vanderka (3-3) then went five 2-3 innings before permitting another hit because the Seawolves pulled away for smart.
"I simply went out there and threw strikes which was extremely all i used to be making an attempt to try and do," Vanderka said. "The defense played awesome behind me."
Stony Brook struck {for 3|for 3} runs on three straight two-out hits within the third. Jankowski, who had singled and scored within the 1st, started the rally with a double and scored on Tissenbaum's double. Kevin Krause and Cole Peragine followed with RBI singles that knocked out starter Ryan Eades (5-3).
Tissenbaum's second double of the sport, that was misplayed by Katz in center, drove in 2 to form it 6-1 within the fourth. The Tigers never got nearer than 6-2 afterward, and at one purpose, regarding 2 dozen fans sporting Stony Brook red — surrounded by quite ten,000 LSU fans — might be heard chanting "S-B-U!"
Senk has overseen Stony Brook's transition from Division III to Division II in 1995 and then to Division I. His two-plus-decade commitment to the program, beginning back when taking part in for Stony Brook was the definition of obscurity, has become a serious supply of motivation for his players. To them, Senk deserved to grasp what it's prefer to take his team to Omaha — and currently he can.
"Any nice team, there has got to be an excellent coach and that is where it forever starts," Tissenbaum said. "To be able to place this all along and crown it for coach and also the entire employees, it's phenomenal."
Stony Brook heads to Omaha for 1st time
In one among the largest upsets in NCAA tournament history, No. four seed Stony Brook took down perennial big Louisiana State University, 7-2, in a very decisive Game three. The Seawolves are headed to Omaha for the faculty World Series for the primary time in their history.
Stony Brook celebrates when defeating LSU, 7-2, to advance to the faculty World Series. (AP)
Stony Brook became simply the third No. four seed in history to achieve the faculty World Series since the present format was implemented in 1999 -- when the Seawolves weren't nonetheless in Division I.
The phrase "David vs. Goliath" might not have done this matchup justice. The Tigers have played within the school World Series fifteen times whereas the Seawolves have solely ever played in fifteen postseason games. The Tigers' six titles rank second in school baseball history.
But the resilient Stony Brook aspect rallied to win 2 straight when dropping the series opener on a 12th-inning walk-off hit. Sunday's victory was largely because of starter Frankie Vanderka, who tossed a complete-game three-hitter, permitting 2 runs.
Seawolves center fielder Travis Jankowski, taken by the Padres because the forty fourth overall choice on Monday, went 4-for-6 and scored twice.
The Seawolves, Gators and Seminoles joined UCLA and Arizona because the groups that have already qualified for the faculty World Series, that begins Friday. 3 a lot of series are slated to finish on Monday.
Daniel Pigott's go-ahead solo home run within the prime of the tenth inning on Sunday propelled Florida to a rain-soaked 9-8 victory over a feisty North Carolina State squad that would not flee. It's Florida's third consecutive trip to the faculty World Series.
The Wolfpack came back to tie the score within the bottom of the eighth and ninth innings, before the homer hit by Pigott -- a Reds draftee -- started a two-run tenth for Florida. NC State scratched one run across within the bottom of the frame, however Florida's Keenan Kish got Pirates Draft decide Chris Diaz to strike out wanting with the tying run on second.
Florida catcher Mike Zunino, who was written third overall by the Mariners, went 2-for-4 with an RBI. Brian Johnson, who was taken thirty first by the Red Sox, went 2-for-5 with a homer.
Florida State had a comparatively straightforward time getting rid of Stanford, scoring thirty five runs within the 2 games, as well as an 18-7 victory Sunday. The Seminoles were led by Angels draft decide Sherman Johnson, who went 3-for-6 with 5 RBIs.
Unlike the Gators and 'Noles, Baylor could not make the most its likelihood to advance past the Super Regional spherical. when losing Game one on Saturday, the Razorbacks extended the series with their dramatic win in Game two.
Trailing by a run with one out within the bottom of the ninth, Arkansas loaded the bases and scored the tying and winning runs on consecutive hit-by-pitches.
After Baylor nearer Max Garner plunked Jimmy Bosco on a 2-2 pitch, the Bears visited the bullpen, calling on Clayton blank. He hit Arkansas' John Clay Reeves together with his 1st pitch.
Oregon held off Kent State, 3-2, to increase its season a minimum of a new day. nearer Jimmie Sherfy entered the sport with a runner on second base and struck out a try of Golden Flashes, every on his trademarked slider.
South Carolina and Oklahoma had a scoreless tie suspended within the sixth inning owing to rain. With the two-time defending champion Gamecocks ahead within the series, 1-0, the sport can resume on Monday.
Friday's scores
LSU 5, Stony Brook four (12 innings; suspended prime twelfth, completed Saturday)
Arizona 7, St. John's half dozen (10 innings)
Florida State seventeen, Stanford 1
UCLA 6, TCU 2
Saturday's scores
Stony Brook three, LSU 1
Arizona 7, St. John's 4
Florida 7, NC State 1
Baylor 8, Arkansas 1
Stanford at No. three Florida State PPD (rain)
South Carolina five, Oklahoma 0
UCLA 4, TCU 1
Kent State seven, Oregon 6
Sunday's schedule (All times ET)
Florida 9, NC State 8
Arkansas 5, Baylor 4
Florida State eighteen, Stanford 7
Oklahoma 0, South Carolina zero (susp.)
Stony Brook seven, LSU 2
No. 5 Oregon 3, Kent State two
Monday's schedule
No. eight South Carolina at Oklahoma (resuming suspended game), 4 p.m.
Arkansas at No. 4 Baylor, 7 p.m.
Kent State at No. 5 Oregon, 7 p.m.
Oklahoma at No. eight South Carolina (if necessary), 7 p.m.
For a bit whereas, at least, upstart Stony Brook is grabbing the sort of attention typically reserved for Derek Jeter, David Wright and also the huge league stars in ny.
"Our motto is: 'Shock the planet and win the last game of the season,'" said center fielder Travis Jankowski, the Seawolves' leading hitter at .422 and also the forty fourth overall choice in last week's Major League Baseball amateur draft. "So as long as we have a tendency to do this, we should always be alright from here on out."
That may appear to be a tall order as previously unheralded Stony Brook heads to its 1st school World Series in Omaha, a visit the Seawolves clinched with a 7-2 victory over six-time national champion LSU on Sunday night. Then again, to listen to the Tigers speak, the Seawolves are for real — a real threat to travel all the means, very little quite a decade when joining the ranks of Division I baseball in 2000.
"They outplayed us extremely in each part of the sport," LSU coach Paul Mainieri said. "The individuals within the South haven't heard a lot of regarding Stony Brook, however they apprehend who they're currently.
"They gained an awful heap of respect not solely down here however nationwide," Mainieri continued. "That team will play with anybody."
The Seawolves are {the 1st|the primary} team from ny State to achieve the faculty World Series since 1980 and also the first team from the Northeast since Maine in 1986.
Stony Brook demonstrated that with relentless hitting and stifling pitching against LSU. Starter Frankie Vanderka bounced back from a Game one loss in a very relief role and threw a complete-game three-hitter within the series clincher. Travis Jankowski had four hits and scored 2 runs, whereas Maxx Tissenbaum drove in 3 runs with a try of doubles.
When Vanderka's fifth strikeout ended the sport, and he was buried underneath a celebratory dog pile moments afterward, it had been a surreal sight for Stony Brook coach Matt Senk, who recalled "doing backflips" when he was 1st employed at then-Division III Stony Brook in 1991. Some twenty two seasons later, he is headed for faculty baseball's promised land on the heels of stopping the mighty Tigers from booking their sixteenth look in Omaha.
"I'm a bit overwhelmed, quite frankly, as a result of i feel I do apprehend the magnitude of this," Senk said, describing how former LSU coach Skip Bertman, winner of 5 national titles, congratulated him when the sport. "To create it to Omaha (is) each school baseball team's dream, each school baseball coach's dream and it's return to fruition. And to try and do it against LSU, Alex Box Stadium ... to shake coach Bertman's hand on the means in. Oh my God. Having that man congratulate me for planning to the faculty World Series, it's simply unbelievable."
Stony Brook, that has won twenty eight of thirty and can face UCLA within the gap game in Omaha, became solely the second team to open the tournament as a No. four seed within the regional spherical and reach the faculty World Series. the primary was Fresno State in 2008 that went on to win the national title.
This Stony Brook squad, that beat host Miami in winning the Coral Gables Regional, simply may be ok to repeat that feat. taking part in before crowds of ten,000-plus sporting LSU purple-and-gold, the Seawolves did not just survive such a lot as thrive, outhitting LSU 35-15 within the series.
The only time the Seawolves (52-13) trailed within the 3 games was when Mason Katz hit a walk-off single to finish an exciting Game one within the bottom of the twelfth, and outhit LSU 15-3 within the series finale.
"They played phenomenal defense," said LSU's Raph Rhymes, who went 1-for-13 within the series when coming back in hitting .452. "We hit balls onerous, however they solely found gloves tonight. you have got to grant credit to Stony Brook, to their pitching and to their defense."
While Stony Brook might are a relative unknown before this riveting postseason run, professional baseball scouts were quite aware of them. Seven Seawolves were selected in last week's Major League Baseball draft (compared to 5 from LSU). they need eight players with 168 or a lot of at-bats hitting .300 or higher.
Asked if he realized what a sensation the Seawolves had become, Jankowski said, "The solely issue i do know is we're trending on Twitter currently."
Then the self-effacing Senk interjected, "I do not know what which means," drawing laughs from his players.
Mainieri and also the Tigers insisted Stony Brook was "legit," pretty much as good as anyone they play within the Southeastern Conference. Still, the Tigers hoped that taking part in at home, where one overflow crowd regarding matched Stony Brook's home attendance for the complete season, would be a definite advantage. After all, LSU (47-18) came into the series 8-0 in NCAA tournament games at the present Alex Box since it opened in 2009.
Stony Brook's 3-1 Game two win behind ace Tyler Johnson's three-hitter ended that streak, however LSU was still assured it might fare higher as Stony Brook went deeper into its rotation.
The Tigers had hit Vanderka when he was referred to as upon for the twelfth inning of Game one, and Katz pounded a solo home flee Vanderka within the bottom of the primary inning Sunday to tie it 1-1.
However, Vanderka (3-3) then went five 2-3 innings before permitting another hit because the Seawolves pulled away for smart.
"I simply went out there and threw strikes which was extremely all i used to be making an attempt to try and do," Vanderka said. "The defense played awesome behind me."
Stony Brook struck {for 3|for 3} runs on three straight two-out hits within the third. Jankowski, who had singled and scored within the 1st, started the rally with a double and scored on Tissenbaum's double. Kevin Krause and Cole Peragine followed with RBI singles that knocked out starter Ryan Eades (5-3).
Tissenbaum's second double of the sport, that was misplayed by Katz in center, drove in 2 to form it 6-1 within the fourth. The Tigers never got nearer than 6-2 afterward, and at one purpose, regarding 2 dozen fans sporting Stony Brook red — surrounded by quite ten,000 LSU fans — might be heard chanting "S-B-U!"
Senk has overseen Stony Brook's transition from Division III to Division II in 1995 and then to Division I. His two-plus-decade commitment to the program, beginning back when taking part in for Stony Brook was the definition of obscurity, has become a serious supply of motivation for his players. To them, Senk deserved to grasp what it's prefer to take his team to Omaha — and currently he can.
"Any nice team, there has got to be an excellent coach and that is where it forever starts," Tissenbaum said. "To be able to place this all along and crown it for coach and also the entire employees, it's phenomenal."
Stony Brook heads to Omaha for 1st time
In one among the largest upsets in NCAA tournament history, No. four seed Stony Brook took down perennial big Louisiana State University, 7-2, in a very decisive Game three. The Seawolves are headed to Omaha for the faculty World Series for the primary time in their history.
Stony Brook celebrates when defeating LSU, 7-2, to advance to the faculty World Series. (AP)
Stony Brook became simply the third No. four seed in history to achieve the faculty World Series since the present format was implemented in 1999 -- when the Seawolves weren't nonetheless in Division I.
The phrase "David vs. Goliath" might not have done this matchup justice. The Tigers have played within the school World Series fifteen times whereas the Seawolves have solely ever played in fifteen postseason games. The Tigers' six titles rank second in school baseball history.
But the resilient Stony Brook aspect rallied to win 2 straight when dropping the series opener on a 12th-inning walk-off hit. Sunday's victory was largely because of starter Frankie Vanderka, who tossed a complete-game three-hitter, permitting 2 runs.
Seawolves center fielder Travis Jankowski, taken by the Padres because the forty fourth overall choice on Monday, went 4-for-6 and scored twice.
The Seawolves, Gators and Seminoles joined UCLA and Arizona because the groups that have already qualified for the faculty World Series, that begins Friday. 3 a lot of series are slated to finish on Monday.
Daniel Pigott's go-ahead solo home run within the prime of the tenth inning on Sunday propelled Florida to a rain-soaked 9-8 victory over a feisty North Carolina State squad that would not flee. It's Florida's third consecutive trip to the faculty World Series.
The Wolfpack came back to tie the score within the bottom of the eighth and ninth innings, before the homer hit by Pigott -- a Reds draftee -- started a two-run tenth for Florida. NC State scratched one run across within the bottom of the frame, however Florida's Keenan Kish got Pirates Draft decide Chris Diaz to strike out wanting with the tying run on second.
Florida catcher Mike Zunino, who was written third overall by the Mariners, went 2-for-4 with an RBI. Brian Johnson, who was taken thirty first by the Red Sox, went 2-for-5 with a homer.
Florida State had a comparatively straightforward time getting rid of Stanford, scoring thirty five runs within the 2 games, as well as an 18-7 victory Sunday. The Seminoles were led by Angels draft decide Sherman Johnson, who went 3-for-6 with 5 RBIs.
Unlike the Gators and 'Noles, Baylor could not make the most its likelihood to advance past the Super Regional spherical. when losing Game one on Saturday, the Razorbacks extended the series with their dramatic win in Game two.
Trailing by a run with one out within the bottom of the ninth, Arkansas loaded the bases and scored the tying and winning runs on consecutive hit-by-pitches.
After Baylor nearer Max Garner plunked Jimmy Bosco on a 2-2 pitch, the Bears visited the bullpen, calling on Clayton blank. He hit Arkansas' John Clay Reeves together with his 1st pitch.
Oregon held off Kent State, 3-2, to increase its season a minimum of a new day. nearer Jimmie Sherfy entered the sport with a runner on second base and struck out a try of Golden Flashes, every on his trademarked slider.
South Carolina and Oklahoma had a scoreless tie suspended within the sixth inning owing to rain. With the two-time defending champion Gamecocks ahead within the series, 1-0, the sport can resume on Monday.
Friday's scores
LSU 5, Stony Brook four (12 innings; suspended prime twelfth, completed Saturday)
Arizona 7, St. John's half dozen (10 innings)
Florida State seventeen, Stanford 1
UCLA 6, TCU 2
Saturday's scores
Stony Brook three, LSU 1
Arizona 7, St. John's 4
Florida 7, NC State 1
Baylor 8, Arkansas 1
Stanford at No. three Florida State PPD (rain)
South Carolina five, Oklahoma 0
UCLA 4, TCU 1
Kent State seven, Oregon 6
Sunday's schedule (All times ET)
Florida 9, NC State 8
Arkansas 5, Baylor 4
Florida State eighteen, Stanford 7
Oklahoma 0, South Carolina zero (susp.)
Stony Brook seven, LSU 2
No. 5 Oregon 3, Kent State two
Monday's schedule
No. eight South Carolina at Oklahoma (resuming suspended game), 4 p.m.
Arkansas at No. 4 Baylor, 7 p.m.
Kent State at No. 5 Oregon, 7 p.m.
Oklahoma at No. eight South Carolina (if necessary), 7 p.m.
