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Rick Rollins
of the greatest moments in CWS play since the tournament moved to Omaha in
1950. Among the panelists were Rod Dedeaux, former USC coach; Ron Fraser,
former Miami coach; Robert Williams, former World-Herald baseball writer;
and Jerry Miles and Lou Spry, former NCAA officials who directed the CWS.
Their selections:
1996: Warren Morris puts a perfect ending on the 50th CWS, slamming a
two-out, two-run homer on the game's
final pitch to propel LSU to a 9-8 victory over Miami before a record crowd
of 23,905. Morris, injured much of the season, hit his first homer of the
season off relief ace Robbie Morrison, who had a 1.11 ERA coming into the
game
but yielded the final four runs.
1991: Before a then-record crowd of 18,206, Wichita State edges Creighton
3-2 in 12 innings. Center fielder Jim
Audley saved the win, gunning down the potential tying run at the plate with
one out in the 12th inning. Wichita State
pitchers Tyler Greene and Jaime Bluma combined for 19 strikeouts - one shy
of the CWS record. Wichita State
scored its winning run in the 12th inning without hitting the ball out of
the infield.
1973: Southern California scores one of the greatest rallies in tournament
while striking for eight runs in the bottom of the ninth inning in posting
an 8-7 win over Minnesota. Dave Winfield had held the Trojans to one hit and
had struck out 15 in the first eight innings before USC rallied.
1982: Miami's "grand illusion" propels the Hurricanes to a 4-3 win over
Wichita State. The Hurricanes tricked Phil
Stephenson, the NCAA's 1982 base-stealing champ, into thinking a pickoff
throw had eluded the first baseman. Even
the Miami ball girls seated down the right-field line were a part of the
trickery, scattering as if the ball had wound up
in their vicinity. Instead, pitcher Mike Kasprzak never let go of the ball,
and his throw to second easily got Stephenson
as he attempted to advance.
1998: Southern California's 12th national championship comes in
record-setting fashion as the Trojans outslug
Arizona State 21-14 in a title game in which 42 marks were broken and 26
others were tied. Wes Rachels drove
in a championship-game record seven runs and tied another mark with five
hits. USC pounded 23 hits, including
five homers, but needed a five-run ninth inning to punctuate the win.
Southern California reliever Jack Krawczyk set
NCAA records for saves in a season (23) and career (49) in nailing down the
victory.
1966: Steve Arlin defeats Southern California for the second time in the
tournament and puts Ohio State into the title game in the 1-0 victory. Arlin
allowed two hits and struck out 12 in what Ohio State Coach Marty Karrow
called Arlin's greatest game.
1985: Greg Ellena has four hits and wins the outstanding player award as
Miami presents Coach Ron Fraser with his second national title in a 10-6
victory over Texas. Ellena, a former bullpen catcher who didn't become a
starter until midseason, batted .480 with three home runs.
1987: Freshman Paul Carey's grand-slam homer in the bottom of the 10th
inning gives Stanford a 6-4 victory over
LSU that keeps the Cardinal alive in the tournament. Carey's one-out blast,
off Ben McDonald, erased the three-run lead LSU had taken in the top of the
inning.
1960: Converted infielder Jim Wixson pitches the second no-hitter in CWS
history in a 7-0 win over North Carolina. Wixson, 1-0 entered the CWS,
struck out six and walked seven.
1986: Pinch-hitter Dave Shermet's two-out, two-run homer on a 3-2 pitch in
the bottom of the ninth inning completes Arizona's 8-7 comeback victory over
Maine. The Wildcats trailed 7-0 heading into the bottom of the seventh
inning but pulled out the win with a rally that Coach Jerry Kindall called
the finest of his career.
1965: Steve Arlin comes back one day after lasting just one-third of an
inning to strike out a CWS-record 20 batters in Ohio State's 1-0, 15-inning
win over Washington State. Arlin surrendered three hits.
1991: Creighton becomes the first Nebraska team to play in a CWS game in an
8-4 victory over Clemson. Steve
Hinton had a triple, double, three RBIs and two dazzling catches in right
field.
1995: Arizona State wins in Coach Jim Brock's last game as the eighth-seeded
Sun Devils upset No. 1 seed Miami 4-0. Brock, battling cancer, sat in a lawn
chair in the ASU dugout and left most of the game strategy to his
assistants. Brock became too ill to remain with his team before the Sun
Devils' next game and returned home, where he died.
1987: Robin Ventura runs his NCAA-record hitting streak to 58 games by
helping Oklahoma State rally to an
8-7 win over LSU.
1983: Calvin Schiraldi strikes out 11 in 51/3 innings as Texas edges Alabama
6-4 in 10 innings. Schiraldi gave up a game-tying homer to Dave Magadan in
the eighth inning but then came back to strike out the Alabama All-American
with the winning run on second in the bottom of the ninth. Texas then
rallied for two runs in the 10th for the win.
1995: Florida State's J.D. Drew becomes the first player in CWS history to
hit three homers in a game but it wasn't
enough to keep the Seminoles from being eliminated in a 16-11 slugfest with
Southern California.
1965: Rick Monday homers, and Sal Bando triples and scores the winning run
in Arizona State's 2-1 championship-game victory over Ohio State. Bando set
a CWS record with 21 total bases and was named the series
MVP.
1962: Jim Bobel pitches and hits Michigan to the national title in a 5-4,
15-inning win over Santa Clara and
ace pitcher Bob Garibaldi. Bobel pitched the final six innings, tripled in
the tie-breaking run and scored the
eventual winning run off Garibaldi, who was making his fifth appearance in
six games. Garibaldi pitched seven innings
of no-hit relief before giving up two hits and two runs in the 15th.
1956: Minnesota's Jerry Kindall, who enrolled at the school on a basketball
scholarship, becomes the only
CWS player to hit for the cycle. He completed the cycle in the Gophers' 13-5
win over Mississippi by homering in the
ninth inning.
1992: Cal State Fullerton rains on Ron Fraser's parade in an 8-1 victory
over Miami in Fraser's last game as coach. The game, which sent Fullerton to
the championship game, was played in a steady rain, bringing controversy to
Fraser's final game of a 30-year coaching career.
1977: Chris Bando's seventh-inning solo homer backs Jerry Vasquez's five-hit
pitching in Arizona State Coach Jim Brock's first national championship
during a 2-1 victory over South Carolina in the final.
1996: In one of the biggest mental errors in CWS history, Clemson left
fielder Gary Burnham fields a double into the left-field corner by Miami's
Rudy Gomez and flips the live ball into the stands. Burnham mistakenly had
thought the third-base umpire had signaled Gomez's hit a foul ball. Gomez
scored on the play, and Miami went on to win, 7-3.
1968: Pinch-hitter Pat Kuehner's two-out, two-run triple gives Southern
California a 4-3 win over Southern Illinois in
the championship game. Kuehner, playing a week after the death of his
brother, had been hitless in the CWS until his
game-winning hit.
1952: Holy Cross becomes the first team east of the Mississippi River to win
a CWS title, defeating Missouri 8-4 in the championship game. Holy Cross
played seven games in six days and used only 11 players, with the Crusaders
getting complete-game pitching performances in every game.
1987: Robin Ventura goes 0 for 5 to see his 58-game hitting streak end in a
6-2 Oklahoma State win over Stanford. Ventura flied out three times, hit a
soft liner to third base and reached second base on a two-base throwing
error by second baseman Frank Carey.
1973: Daryl Arenstein becomes the first player to play on four national
championship teams as Southern California defeats Arizona State 4-3 in the
title game.
1954: Carl Thomas does it all in Arizona's 12-1 win over Oregon. Thomas
pitched a four-hitter, struck out 11 and
drove in seven runs, hitting two home runs and a bases-loaded double.
1995: A record crowd of 22,027 watches Cal State Fullerton finish the season
with its 18th straight victory, an 11-5 romp past Southern California. Mark
Kotsay hit two home runs - a three-run blast in the first inning and a
two-run shot in the second - in staking Fullerton to a 7-3 lead.
1960: A bases-loaded walk in the 10th inning gives Minnesota a 2-1
championship game win over Southern California. All three meetings between
the teams went extra innings, with the Golden Gophers winning two of the
three.
1954: Ed Cook pitches Missouri to a 4-1 win over Rollins in the championship
game match of David and Goliath.
Rollins, with a male enrollment of about 300 students, was better known as a
tennis school until the Tars gave the
CWS a thrill by reaching the title game. Cook ended the Cinderella story by
pitching a six-hitter and striking out
eight.
1988: Arizona State rallies for two runs with two outs in the ninth inning,
then scores a 4-3 win over Wichita State.
The Sun Devils were down to their last strike twice in the ninth inning
before pulling off what Arizona State Coach
Jim Brock called the greatest comeback in his 17 seasons as coach.
1997: LSU wins its fourth title of the decade, handing Alabama a 13-6 loss
in the championship game. Danny Higgins drove in three runs in LSU's six-run
first inning, leading off with a homer and then drilling a two-out single.
1954: Bill Lajoie scores the winning run in Western Michigan's 5-4 win over
Oklahoma A&M on one of the great fluke plays in tournament history. With two
runners on and Western Michigan trailing 4-2 in the ninth, Lajoie bunted.
Oklahoma A&M third baseman Jim Woolard threw wildly, trying to get Lajoie at
first base, allowing two runs to score. Oklahoma A&M outfielder Mel Wright
retrieved the errant throw, but his throw hit Western Michigan First Base
Coach Dick Erickson in the head, knocking him out. As players on both teams
gathered around Erickson, Lajoie scampered home with the winning run.
1990: Georgia's Stan Payne and Dave Fleming stop Oklahoma State on five hits
in a 2-1 win that gives the Bulldogs their first national championship. The
two Georgia pitchers stymied an Oklahoma State offense that had scored 35
runs on 46 hits in its first three tournament wins.
1970: Frank Alfano's dribbler down the third-base line brings home the
winning run from third base and ends Southern California's 15-inning, 2-1
win over Florida State in the championship game.
1983: Dave Magadan ties a CWS record with five hits in helping Alabama post
a 6-5 victory over Arizona State in 11 innings. Craig Shipley's infield
single drove in the winning run in the bottom of the inning.
1995: Kyle Peterson, who dreamed of pitching in the CWS while growing up in
Omaha, returns to Rosenblatt Stadium and delivers a 8-3 Stanford victory
over Clemson. The win was the 14th for the Cardinal freshman.
1963: Bud Hollowell, batting .183 before the tournament, hits a CWS-record
four homers in leading USC to its fourth national title. Hollowell's fourth
homer came in a 5-2 championship game win over Arizona.
1992: In the first final to match teams from the same state, Pepperdine
edges Cal State Fullerton 3-2 to win its first national championship. The
Waves got solid pitching and game-saving defense from second baseman Steve
Rodriguez, whose diving stop of Tony Banks' hot shot in the hole between
first and second robbed Fullerton of a chance to take the lead in the eighth
inning.
1961: An eighth-inning single by 27-year-old Art Ersepke scores future USC
Coach Mike Gillespie with the winning run in the Trojans' 1-0
championship-game victory over Oklahoma State.
1978: Southern California claims its 11th national championship with a 10-3
clubbing of defending champion Arizona State in the title game. Bill
Bordley's pitching and a 16-hit attack that featured a home run by Dave
Hostetler carried USC to the title.
1994: Mark Kotsay ties a CWS record by driving in seven runs in Cal State
Fullerton's 10-3 win over Florida State. Kotsay had a grand-slam homer, a
two-run double and a sacrifice fly.
1982: An injury to Kevin Penner takes some of the joy out of Wichita
State's 8-4 victory over top-ranked Texas. Penner, from Aurora, Neb.,
suffered a broken cheekbone when hit in the face by a Calvin Schiraldi
pitch in the second inning.
1957: Notre Dame's Jim Morris sets a CWS record by hitting .714 in the
tournament in helping the Fighting Irish to a 2-2 finish.
1984: Cal State Fullerton relies on little Eddie Delzer to carry the Titans
to a 3-1 victory that denies Texas a repeat championship. Delzer, 5-foot-8
and 150 pounds, learned 30 minutes before the game that he would be
starting. He allowed only two infield singles in seven innings before Scott
Wright set an NCAA record with his 22nd save.
1994: Oklahoma caps a near-flawless NCAA tournament display by winning its
first national championship since 1951 with a 13-5 clubbing of Georgia Tech.
In 74 innings of CWS and regional play, the Sooners trailed just twice.
1976: Bob Owchinko outduels Floyd Bannister in denying him a 20th victory to
give Eastern Michigan a 2-1 victory over Arizona State. Owchinko scattered
seven hits and struck out six, while Bannister limited the winners to six
hits while striking out 11.
1950: Jim Ehrler of Texas pitches the first no-hitter in CWS history,
striking out 14 Tufts batters, in a 7-0 victory.
1958: Southern California scores seven runs in the ninth inning to post a
7-0 win over Missouri. The Trojans' Bill Thoms threw a three-hit shutout and
contributed a three-run double.
1962: Bob Garibaldi, pitching for the fourth time in five nights, throws
72/3 innings of two-hit baseball, striking out 12, in Santa Clara's 4-3 win
in 10 innings over Texas.
Rick Rollins
1950. Among the panelists were Rod Dedeaux, former University of Southern
California coach; Ron Fraser, former Miami Hurricanes coach; Robert
Williams, former World-Herald college baseball writer; and Jerry Miles and
Lou Spry, former NCAA officials who directed the CWS. The consensus of their
selections, with players listed alphabetically:
Daryl Arenstein, 1b, Southern California (1970-71-72-73): Holds CWS records
with 20 games played, 68 at-bats and 191 putouts. He played on four national
title teams.
Steve Arlin, p, Ohio State (1965-66): Fired a shutout in each year,
including a 15-inning, 20-strikeout effort in 1965 against Washington State.
In 1966, he pitched a two-hitter against USC and was named series MVP.
J.D. Arteaga, p, Miami (1994-95-96-97): Rare four-year CWS performer was
named to the 1996 all-tournament team. He holds the CWS record with seven
starts and shares fourth place all-time with 46 innings.
Sal Bando, 3b, Arizona State (1964-65): Keyed ASU's 1965 title run and was
named outstanding player that year. He ranks fifth all-time in CWS slugging
percentage (.730).
Ed Bane, p, Arizona State (1972-73): Pitched a 1-0 shutout in 1972 against
Oklahoma and followed with a 3-0 shutout against Minnesota in 1973.
Bill Bates, 2b, Texas (1983-84-85): Holds all-time CWS career records with
21 runs scored and 35 total bases and ranks second with 20 hits.
Barry Bonds, of, Arizona State (1983-84): Selected for the all-time team
for the CWS' first 50 years, shares all-time CWS record with eight straight
hits (three games in 1984) and batted .438 in CWS games (14 for 32).
Greg Brummett, p, Wichita State (1988-89): Won three games in 1989 to lift
the Shockers to the national title and gain series MVP honors.
Paul Carey, of, Stanford (1987-88-90): As a freshman in 1987, he was named
the outstanding CWS player and led the Cardinal to the first of back-to-back
titles. His 10th-inning grand slam delivered a 1987 victory over LSU.
Will Clark, of, Mississippi State (1985): Named to the CWS all-time team for
the first 50 years (1947-1996) after batting .583 in his only series.
Roger Clemens, p, Texas (1982-83): Was 1-1 in two 1982 starts, but he
compiled a CWS-leading 1.06 ERA. In 1983, he gave up no walks in 172/3
innings, a CWS record.
Mike Day, c, Oklahoma State (1982-83-84-85): Collected 12 hits and scored
nine runs while leading 1984 CWS players with a .545 average. He also had
two doubles and triple.
Kirk Dressendorfer, p, Texas (1989): Topped 1989 CWS pitching with a 1.20
ERA in two games in which he struck out 13 in 15 innings and compiled a 2-0
record.
J.D. Drew, of, Florida State (1995-96): Hit three homers against USC in a
1995 game to set a CWS record and holds all-time career CWS mark with five
homers.
Jim Ehrler, p, Texas (1949-50): Pitched the first CWS no-hitter during a
7-0 victory over Tufts in 1950. He's the only CWS pitcher to win two
championship games - including the first one in Omaha.
Greg Ellena, dh, Miami (1985-86): Won series MVP honors as 1985 Hurricanes
rolled to the national title.
Ron Fairly, of, Southern California (1958): Led Trojans to the 1958 title
and was named to the 25-year all-time CWS team (1947-1970).
Nomar Garciaparra, ss, Georgia Tech (1994): Selected for the all-tournament
team in 1994 and named to the all-decade team. His 12th-inning homer pushed
Tech past Cal State Fullerton and into the title game. He homered in Tech's
title-game loss to Oklahoma.
Bruce Gardner, p, Southern California (1958-60): Tossed one of the three CWS
shutouts in 1958, stopping Arizona 4-0. He's among the career series ERA
leaders (1.73 in 361/3 innings).
Bob Garibaldi, p, Santa Clara (1962): Set a CWS record with 38 strikeouts
and was honored as series MVP as a sophomore.
Larry Gura, p, Arizona State (1967-69): Named to the 1969 all-tournament
team while helping his team win the national title. He compiled a 0.86 ERA
in four games during the 1969 CWS.
Burt Hooton, p, Texas (1969-70): Pitched a 4-0 shutout over eventual
national champion Arizona State in 1969.
Bob Horner, 2b, Arizona State (1976-77-78): Powered ASU's 1977 title while
gaining series MVP honors. He holds all-time CWS career record with 20 RBIs.
Tony Hudson, p, Cal State Fullerton (1979): Series MVP notched four saves
and didn't allow an earned run during four appearances and 111/3 innings.
Pete Incaviglia, of-dh, Oklahoma State (1983-84-85): Named the designated
hitter on the CWS 50-year team (1947-1996). He ranks among all-time CWS
leaders in home runs (four), total bases (32), slugging percentage (.762)
and RBIs (16).
Mark Kotsay, of, Cal State Fullerton (1994-95): Tourney MVP topped the 1995
CWS field with a .563 average (9 for 16) and knocked in 10 runs. He tied a
single-game CWS mark with seven RBIs in a 1994 game and shares all-time CWS
career batting mark (.517).
Richie Lewis, p, Florida State (1986-87): Led the 1986 national runners-up
and was named to the all-tournament team that year. He ranks third all-time
with 48 strikeouts.
Fred Lynn, of, Southern California (1971-72-73): Named to CWS all-decade
team and 1973 all-tournament team. He played on three national championship
teams.
Dave Magadan, 3b, Alabama (1983): Knocked in five runs and led CWS batters
with a .550 average (11 for 20) in five games.
Russ McQueen, p, Southern California (1972-73): Series MVP didn't surrender
a run during his 14 innings in the 1972 CWS, when he pitched in four games,
compiled a 3-0 record, struck out 14 and allowed four hits and two walks.
Kevin McReynolds, of, Arkansas (1979): Ranks ninth in all-time CWS batting
at .556 (10 for 18, five games).
George Milke, p, Southern California (1973-74): Won 1974 MVP honors after
pitching three victories and leading USC to its fifth straight title.
Rick Monday, of, Arizona State (1965): Hit a home run in the 2-1 title
victory over Ohio State. The 19-year-old sophomore, who teamed with Sal
Bando to give the Sun Devils a powerful 1-2 punch, gained all-tournament
honors.
Jim Morris, of, Notre Dame (1957): Tourney's leading hitter (.714) in 1957,
and he was selected for the 25-year all-time CWS team.
Warren Morris, 2b, LSU (1996): The 5-foot-11, 170-pound second baseman's
shocking ninth-inning home run against Miami lifted the Tigers from probable
losers to national champions.
Spike Owen, ss, Texas (1981-82): Led 1982 CWS batters with a .529 average
in four games, including four doubles, and was named to all-time CWS team
(1947-1996).
Tom Paciorek, of, Houston (1968): Collected 22 career total bases, tying
for fifth all-time.
Steve Rogers, p, Tulsa (1969-71): Keyed the Golden Hurricanes' third-place
finish in 1971, when he was named to the all-tournament team. He shares the
all-time CWS record with four victories.
Calvin Schiraldi, p, Texas (1983): Led CWS pitchers in 1983 with a 0.63 ERA,
when he went 2-1 in 141/3 innings and struck out six.
Bob Shirley, p, Oklahoma (1973-74-75): Made the 1973 all-tournament team
and ranks 10th on all-time CWS career ERA list at 2.04.
Dan Smith, p, Miami (1982): Led Hurricanes to national title and was named
the tournament's outstanding player.
Ed Sprague, 3b, Stanford (1987-88): Shares second place on all-time CWS
career homer list with four.
Greg Swindell, p, Texas (1984-85): Selected for all-tournament teams in
back-to-back years, when the Longhorns finished as national runners-up both
times. He had 29 strikeouts in 1985 and four career CWS wins.
Carl Thomas, p, Arizona (1954-55-56): Shares the single-game CWS record with
seven RBIs in a 1954 game and shut out Springfield 6-0 in 1955 on a
two-hitter. He also shares the record for most years with wins (three) and
holds CWS strikeout record with 64.
Jackson Todd, p, Oklahoma (1972): Didn't allow any earned runs in 14
innings while compiling a 2-1 record.
Robin Ventura, 3b, Oklahoma State (1986-87): Averaged three hits in his
team's three 1986 games, when he led the CWS with a .600 average (9 for 15).
He knocked in five runs and ripped three doubles.
Todd Walker, 2b, LSU (1993-94): 1993 MVP powered the second of four Tiger
national titles.
Dave Winfield, p-of, Minnesota (1973): Series MVP, who collected 29
strikeouts in two games, tossed a 1-0 shutout against Oklahoma and nearly
pitched the Gophers past eventual champion USC in the title game.
Woody Woodward, ss, Florida State (1963): All-tournament team in 1963 and
selected for 25-year all-time team.
Tom Yewcic, c, Michigan State (1954): Honored as the series MVP in helping
the Spartans to a third-place finish.
samo...@webtv.net
drop of the bile which often exists without need or reason in this
newsgroup. Thank You!
Noel Burns
: two-out, two-run homer on the game's
: final pitch to propel LSU to a 9-8 victory over Miami before a record
crowd
: of 23,905. Morris, injured much of the season, hit his first homer of the
: season off relief ace Robbie Morrison, who had a 1.11 ERA coming into the
: game but yielded the final four runs.
Apparently what we hve here is a difference of opinion regarding the
definition of a "perfect ending."
Jim Carr
In article <UX3_3.14191$ss3.5...@typhoon.nyroc.rr.com>
"Rick Rollins" <roll...@stny.rr.com> writes:
>
>A panel of veteran College World Series observers participated in picking 50
>of the greatest moments in CWS play since the tournament moved to Omaha in
>1950. Among the panelists were Rod Dedeaux, former USC coach; Ron Fraser,
>former Miami coach; ...
Someone overlooked this contributor when commenting on the first
item on the list. ;-)
> ... Robert Williams, former World-Herald baseball writer;
>and Jerry Miles and Lou Spry, former NCAA officials who directed the CWS.
....
>1998: Southern California's 12th national championship comes in
>record-setting fashion as the Trojans outslug
>Arizona State 21-14 in a title game in which 42 marks were broken and 26
>others were tied. ....
Somehow this entry failed to note the long-lasting significance of
this game, which really belongs on top of the list for that reason:
the 23 hits and 5 homers for USC, not to mention what ASU did, were
a -- if not the -- driving force for the regulation of aluminum bats.
This marked the high point of the Gorilla Ball Era in college ball.
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