How It Happened: Five days after throwing four shutout innings to open Oregon's NCAA Regional final victory over Xavier in Nashville, freshman Grayson Grinsell got the start for the Ducks on Friday. "It's just awesome," said Cowley, the UO single-season RBI record-holder with 69 entering Saturday's second game of the Super Regional. Rikuu Nishida's school-record 65th run of the season got the Ducks within one on Cowley's first RBI of the night in the seventh, all-time program RBI record-holder Tanner Smith plated Cowley to tie it, and Cowley drove in Nishida with one out in the ninth to win it. Oregon used four home runs to rally within 8-6 through six innings, two from Bennett Thompson and one of those a three-run shot in the fourth. This team's got a toughness to them that I've never seen before." "This team," UO coach Mark Wasikowski said, "won't quit. Trailing 8-0 entering the bottom of the third, the Ducks became the first team ever to overcome an eight-run deficit in the Super Regional round - in 96 previous instances, it had never happened.
Playing in front of a raucous home crowd, Oregon advanced to within a game of the College World Series by walking off Oral Roberts on Friday, 9-8, on an RBI single by all-American Drew Cowley in the bottom of the ninth. And in the end, that was the most important factor of all. But there was another factor in play, one that was more subjective- the heart of the UO baseball program. And for another, teams that win the series opener had nearly an 80 percent chance of advancing to Omaha. In the middle innings of Friday's series opener between Oregon and Oral Roberts at PK Park, two facts about the history of the NCAA Super Regional round spelled trouble for the Ducks' hopes of making the College World Series.įor one thing, no team had ever come back from an eight-run deficit in a baseball Super Regional.
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