2007 College World Series Totally Explained

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The 2007 College World Series was held from June 15 -24 in Omaha, Nebraska. Eight NCAA Division I college baseball teams met at Rosenblatt Stadium after having played their way through a 64-team bracket. Oregon State went undefeated through the College World Series, posting a 5-0 record. The Beavers, lead by head coach Pat Casey, won all three games in their four-team bracket and then defeated North Carolina in two games in the best-of-three championship series. Oregon State became the fifth team to win consecutive NCAA titles (last done by LSU in 1996-97), and were the first team to win four games in a CWS by six or more runs. Their opener against Cal State Fullerton was a tight 3-2 victory, but OSU's last four games in the CWS were not close, impressive for a team seeded in the lower half of the 64-team tournament.
The Beavers also became the first team to win the CWS after having posted a losing conference record. Oregon State was a disappointing 10-14 (.417) in the Pac-10, placing sixth among the nine baseball-playing schools (Oregon dropped baseball in 1981, but will revive it in 2009.)
However, the Beavers' non-conference record during the regular season was an impressive 28-3 (.903), and as defending NCAA champions, just enough to gain a berth in the 64-team tournament. They were placed as a #3 seed in one of the 16 four-team regionals, in Charlottesville, Virginia. Oregon State responded by going 11-1 (.917) in the post season. Oregon State won their final 10 games to finish at 49-18 (.731) overall. The Beavers trailed in only one inning of 2007 CWS: the first inning of the final game. Their only loss in the post season came during the second game of regionals, where they fell in 13 innings to host Virginia.(External Link

) Oregon State freshman pitcher Jorge Reyes (of Warden, Washington) was named the Most Outstanding Player of the 2007 CWS. Reyes was 2-0 as a starter, defeating Cal State Fullerton in the opener and North Carolina in the first game of the finals.

Participants

School	Conference	Record (Conference)	Head Coach	CWS Appearances	CWS Best Finish	CWS W-L Record
Mississippi State	SEC	38 - 20 (15 - 13)	Ron Polk	7 (last: 1998)	3rd (1985)	7 - 14
Rice	Conference USA	54 - 12 (22 - 2)	Wayne Graham	5 (last: 2006)	1st (2003)	8 - 9
UC-Irvine	Big West	45 - 15 - 1 (15 - 6)	Dave Serrano	0 (last: none)	none	0 - 0
Louisville	Big East	46 - 22 (19 - 8)	Dan McDonnell	0 (last: none)	none	0 - 0
Arizona State	Pac-10	48 - 13 (19 - 5)	Pat Murphy	19 (last: 2005)	1st (1965, 1967, 1969, 1977, 1981)	58 - 32
North Carolina	ACC	53 - 13 (21 - 9)	Mike Fox	5 (last: 2006)	2nd (2006)	6 - 10
Cal State Fullerton	Big West	38 - 23 (10 - 11)	George Horton	14 (last: 2006)	1st (1979, 1984, 1995, 2004)	34 - 23
Oregon State	Pac-10	44 - 18 (10 - 14)	Pat Casey	3 (last: 2006)	1st (2006)	6 - 6

Tournament Notes

Oregon State is one of only five teams (LSU: 96-97, Texas: 49-50, Southern California: 70-74, Stanford: 87-88) to win consecutive CWS titles
Oregon State is also the first team to repeat as champion since the CWS switched to the current 3-game championship series.
Oregon State is the first champion to make it back to the CWS the year after they won title since Texas appeared in the 2003 after winning it in 2002
The 2007 Oregon State Beavers are the first CWS champions with a conference record of less than .500 (10-14)
Louisville is the second school whose athletic teams have played in a Final Four, BCS bowl game, and a College World Series within the last three years. Florida is the other school.
2007 marks the 15^th year in a row that the SEC has had at least one team make it to Omaha.
2007 marks the second time the College World Series champions and runners up are the same two consecutive years.

Bracket

The teams were separated into two four-team double elimination tournaments; the winners met for a best-of-three starting June 23. In the bracket below, in each round the match-up in the game in the loser's bracket is determined by the results of the games in "the same round" in the winners' bracket, and therefore was necessarily played after those winners' bracket games.

2007 College World Series Bracket

Final CWS standings

Place	School	CWS Record
1st	Oregon State	5-0
2nd	North Carolina	4-3
3rd	Rice	2-2
3rd	UC-Irvine	2-2
5th	Arizona State	1-2
5th	Louisville	1-2
7th	Cal State-Fullerton	0-2
7th	Mississippi State	0-2

Results

All times are CDT.

Friday 6/15

Game 1: 1:00 PM

Game 2: 6:00 PM

Saturday 6/16

Game 3: 1:00 PM

Game 4: 6:00 PM

Sunday 6/17

Game 5: 1:00 PM

Game 6: 6:00 PM

Monday 6/18

Game 7: 1:00 PM

Game 8: 6:00 PM

Tuesday 6/19

Game 9: 1:00 PM

Game 10: 6:00 PM

Wednesday 6/20

Game 11: 1:00 PM

Game 12: 6:00 PM

Thursday 6/21

Game 13: 6:00 PM

Saturday 6/23

Game 14: 6:00 PM

Sunday 6/24

Game 15: 6:00 PM

All Tournament Team

The following players were members of the All-Tournament Team.

Position	Player	School
P	Jorge Reyes	Oregon State
P	Andrew Carignan	North Carolina
1B	Dustin Ackley	North Carolina
2B	Joey Wong	Oregon State
3B	Diego Seastrunk	Rice
SS	Darwin Barney	Oregon State
C	Mitch Canham	Oregon State
OF	Bryan Petersen	UC Irvine
	Tim Fedroff	North Carolina
	Scott Santschi	Oregon State
DH	Mike Lissman	Oregon State

Notable Players

Mississippi State: Edward Easley

Rice: Joe Savery, Danny Lehmann, Aaron Luna, Diego Seastrunk, Cole St.Clair

North Carolina: Adam Warren, Josh Horton, Andrew Carignan, Dustin Ackley, Chad Flack

UC-Irvine: Scott Gorgen, Dylan Axelrod, Bryan Peterson, Cody Cipriano

Cal State-Fullerton: Wesley Roemer, Nick Mahin

Arizona State: Brett Wallace

Louisville: Trystan Magnuson, Logan Johnson, Chris Dominguez, Chris Cates

Oregon State: Edward Kunz, Mitchell Canham, Chris Hopkins, Mike Lissman, Darwin Barney, Jorge Reyes

CWS records tied or broken

Oregon State became the first team to win four games by six or more runs in the CWS.

Oregon State became the first team to win the CWS while having a losing record in regular season conference play.

North Carolina's Rob Wooten pitched in a record 6 games in a single CWS.

North Carolina tied a CWS record by turning five double plays in game one of the final series against Oregon State.

North Carolina used a CWS record eight pitchers in its Game 6 loss to Rice.

Game 7 between UC-Irvine and Cal State-Fullerton went 13 innings and lasted 5 hours and 40 minutes. It was the longest game in terms of time in College World Series history. The game also had the most hit-by-pitches (eight) and reportedly used and lost 96 balls, the most ever. The previous record was 84 balls lost.

Louisville's Logan Johnson tied the CWS record with four home runs.

By beating Arizona State, UC-Irvine became the first team in CWS history to win two extra-inning games back to back.

A CWS record number of batters were hit by pitches during the series.

CWS Leaders

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Individual

Post-Series Notes

The championship series featured a rematch of 2006's final, with Oregon State once again defeating North Carolina. The only other time a rematch in the CWS finals occurred was in 1972 and 1973, when USC and Arizona State faced each other; Southern California won both times.

Following Oregon State's second consecutive national title, the rival University of Oregon announced that it was reviving its intercollegiate baseball program, beginning with the 2009 season. The Duck baseball program was discontinued after the 1981 season due to Title IX considerations. Oregon was the only member of the Pac-10 not to field a baseball team, although an unofficial club team did compete against other club teams. Oregon will drop wrestling and add women's competitive cheerleading (External Link

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