The Division I Baseball Committee made them a No. 3 regional seed, and they blew a two-run ninth-inning lead in losing to Arizona State on Friday. The Stags beat Southern on Saturday, then knocked out the Sun Devils with a 9-7 win after erasing an early five-run deficit.
“I think it justifies what we did this year,” Stags coach Bill Currier said. “Our record was only against teams in conference and sometimes wasn’t on the ears of the bigger schools they said we could never compete with. I feel like we had the justification of the year we had and the type of team that we are. And that’s an important thing to see on a national stage.”
No. 6 TCU is the other national seed that’s out. The Horned Frogs lost 3-2 to Oregon State, which will play Dallas Baptist in the final at Fort Worth.
Arkansas, the overall top seed, takes on Nebraska in a mentor-mentee matchup between coaches Dave Van Horn and Will Bolt.
When Van Horn took the Nebraska job in 1998, Bolt was his first recruit. Bolt was the team captain and middle infielder on the Cornhuskers’ 2001 and 2002 College World Series teams.
Bolt, nicknamed “Little DVH” as a player because his mannerisms resembled those of his coach, took over at Nebraska last year and led the Huskers to the Big Ten championship this season.
The Huskers lost 5-1 to Arkansas on Saturday and beat NJIT 18-4 to reach the final.
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