{"id":17111,"date":"2021-06-15T11:32:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T15:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17111"},"modified":"2021-06-20T07:40:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T11:40:29","slug":"cws-super-regionals-recap-and-cws-field-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17111","title":{"rendered":"2021 CWS Super Regionals Recap and CWS Field set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>#1 Arkansas vs NC State: Arkansas destroyed NC State in game one 21-2.  That&#8217;s a beat-down.  NC State rebounded to force game 3, where they shocked the nation&#8217;s #1 team to advance as an unseeded team to Omaha.<\/li><li>#8 Texas Tech vs #9 Stanford: Stanford shocked the host Texas Tech team 15-3 in game one, then blanked them in game two 9-0 for a dominant super regional win on the road.<\/li><li>#5 Arizona vs #12 Ole Miss: Arizona with relative ease in game one, and Ole Miss trounced them in game two to force the tiebreaker.  Arizona rebounded again in game 3, with a 16-3 destruction to punch their ticket to Omaha.<\/li><li>#4 Vanderbilt vs #13 East Carolina: Vandy&#8217;s two aces dominated ECU, giving up just one run between them, and Vanderbilt advances to the CWS with ease.<\/li><li> #3 Tennessee vs LSU:  Tennessee held serve in game 1 and handled LSU in game two with ease to move to the finals as a big favorite.<\/li><li>Dallas Baptist vs UVA: DBU with the close one in game 1, getting to UVA ace <strong>Andrew Abbott<\/strong> and holding on for the win.  UVA blanked the Patriots in game two behind 7 2-hit innings from <strong>Griff McGarry<\/strong> (who sported an ERA north of 6.00 on the season) to force the Monday tie-breaker.  In the breaker, UVA&#8217;s freshman <strong>Nate Savino<\/strong> struggled early, was replaced by middle reliever <strong>Matt Wyatt<\/strong>, who shut down DBU for the rest of the game, setting the stage for a clutch 7th inning Grand Slam from <strong>Kyle Teel<\/strong>, their best hitter on the season, to move them to Omaha.  <\/li><li>#7 Mississippi State vs #10 Notre Dame:  Miss State outslugged ND in game one 9-8.  Notre Dame blasted the SEC team 9-1 to force the Monday tie-breaker.  There, Notre Dame just couldn&#8217;t score enough to overcome their own pitching and lost 11-7.<\/li><li>#2 Texas vs South Florida:  Texas won a close game 1 and blew out the cinderella team in game 2 to advance to Omaha.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Super Regional predictions: Arkansas, Texas Tech, Arizona, Vandy, Tenn, UVA, Notre Dame, Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Super Regional actuals: NC State, Stanford, Arizona, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, UVA, Mississippi State, Texas.  Prediction went just 5 for 8 in the super regionals.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>CWS field:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>top half: NC State, #9 Stanford, #5 Arizona, #4 Vanderbilt<\/p>\n<p>bottom half: #3 Tennessee, UVA, #7 Mississippi State and #2 Texas<\/p>\n<p>Despite losing the #1 overall seed, Omaha is pretty stacked, with 5 of the best 8 teams in the land, plus #9 Stanford who dominated the #8 seed to move on.&nbsp; We&#8217;re about to see some really good baseball.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Star Power in the CWS:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Vanderbilt: <strong>Leiter and Rocker<\/strong>, both likely going top 5 of the 2021 draft in a few weeks time, continue to show why Vandy is the team to beat.<\/li><li>Texas: <strong>Ty Madden<\/strong>, their Ace, continues on and might be in the mix for  the Nats pick at #11.<\/li><li>UVA: <strong>Zach Gelof, Andrew Abbott, Mike Vasil<\/strong>: all likely 2nd day picks.<\/li><li>Mississippi State: <strong>Wil Bednar<\/strong>, <strong>Christian MacLeod<\/strong>, two solid arms.<br><br><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Predictions?&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In the top-half: It is hard not to look at the way Vanderbilt&#8217;s two aces can dominate even a top offensive team like ECU and not just pencil them in for wins.&nbsp; Look for Vanderbilt to win the first two games of their CWS bracket, then wait in the final.&nbsp; Stanford took 2 of 3 versus Arizona at home in May, but the friday night game was a 13-inning affair that saw both teams&#8217; aces give up runs, so its hard to predict who might come out of the loser&#8217;s bracket, but i like Arizona to challenge Vandy but ultimately lose.<\/li><li>In the bottom half&#8230;#3 Tennessee is my favorite here, despite being the slight underdog to #2 Texas.  D1Baseball has Tennessee above Texas in their rankings, and I wonder if Texas will save their ace for game 2 as a result.  Tennessee will start with UVA, while Texas will start with Mississippi State.  I like the top 2 seeds to move on, with Tennessee eventually advancing out of the group.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This would leave a CWS final of Vandy vs Tennessee, a rematch of a mid-April 3-game series at Tennessee where Vandy won 2 of 3, beating Leiter in the saturday game.  Still thinking Vandy takes this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#1 Arkansas vs NC State: Arkansas destroyed NC State in game one 21-2. That&#8217;s a beat-down. NC State rebounded to force game 3, where they shocked the nation&#8217;s #1 team to advance as an unseeded team to Omaha. #8 Texas Tech vs #9 Stanford: Stanford shocked the host Texas Tech team 15-3 in game one, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4076],"class_list":["post-17111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","tag-jack-leiter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17111"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17120,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17111\/revisions\/17120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}