{"id":6988,"date":"2013-06-19T09:13:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T13:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com.\/?p=6988"},"modified":"2013-07-26T14:43:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T18:43:08","slug":"college-world-series-update-the-tourney-is-taking-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=6988","title":{"rendered":"College World Series Update; The tourney is taking shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6990\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ColllegeWorldSeries-misspelling-2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6990\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-6990\" alt=\"Not a good sign when you can't spell the name of your marquee event correctly.  \" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ColllegeWorldSeries-misspelling-2013-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not a good sign when you can&#8217;t spell the name of your marquee event correctly.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a recap of the 2013 College World Series (CWS) so far. \u00a0We&#8217;re through the first four days of competition and we&#8217;re getting closer to a CWS final.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">To recap the entire NCAA post-season tournament so far<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Here&#8217;s my look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com.\/?p=6755 \">Field of 64<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s a review of the first round and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com.\/?p=6839\">look at the Super Regionals<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s a review of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com.\/?p=6925\">Super Regionals and the CWS field<\/a> with predictions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A couple helpful resources for those who want to follow the College game: here&#8217;s a link to the CWS schedule page at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.d1baseball.com\/2013\/daily\/0615.htm\">d1baseball.com<\/a>, which I use as the best way to quickly find all the core college site data. \u00a0And here&#8217;s the best (only?) College Baseball blog out there: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegebaseballdaily.com\/\">CollegeBaseballDaily.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">CWS Field<\/span>: here&#8217;s the two Pots that will each determine a finalist:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pot 1: UNC,\u00a0NC State, UCLA, LSU<\/li>\n<li>Pot 2: Mississippi State, Oregon State, Indiana, Louisville<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Days 1-2<\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.d1baseball.com\/2013\/daily\/0615.htm\">Results<\/a>: NC State beats UNC, UCLA beats LSU, Mississippi State beats Oregon State and Indiana beats Louisville. \u00a0My predictions were pretty bad; all four teams that I thought would win the openers lost; only Indiana-Louisville would not have been considered an &#8220;upset&#8221; by seeds.<\/li>\n<li><b>Carlos Rodon<\/b> for NC State <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gopack.com\/sports\/m-basebl\/stats\/2012-2013\/st64.html\">pitched a complete game<\/a>\u00a0victory,\u00a0giving up just one run on 5 hits against the #1 overall seed UNC. \u00a0Rodon&#8217;s post-season stats now stand as follows: 26 1\/3 innings, 18 hits, 4 runs, 27Ks, 4 walks. \u00a0Hie continues building his draft pedigree for 2014 (he&#8217;s already considered one of the best, if not the best 2014 draft prospects). \u00a0If NC State can beat UCLA, they&#8217;ll get Rodon in the pot final on 4 days rest and could use him in game 3 of the finals on 4 days rest as well, an intruiging scenario for NC State&#8217;s chances at winning this tournament. \u00a0So instead of seeing marquee matchups in the winners brackets of both pots, we saw them in win-or-go-home games in the Losers bracket.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aaron Nola<\/strong> for LSU took his first loss of the season, giving up 2 unearned runs in 8 innings to lose to UCLA. \u00a0Another upper-end sophomore pitching prospect, Nola has yet to give up an earned run in the post season and previously out-dueled 3rd overall pick\u00a0<strong>Jonathan Grey<\/strong> in the super Regional by pitching a 2-hit shutout against Oklahoma. \u00a0But UCLA ground out an important victory.<\/li>\n<li>Mississippi State scored twice in the 8th to take the 5-4 lead and held on against #3 overall Seed Oregon State.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joey DeNato<\/strong> pitched a 4-hit shutout for Indiana and shut down Louisville. \u00a0DeNato is a college junior who (amazingly?) went undrafted in June (likely because of his size; he&#8217;s listed as 5&#8217;10&#8221; 180 and probably is smaller). \u00a0 He&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iuhoosiers.com\/sports\/m-basebl\/mtt\/joey_denato_731473.html\">24-8 for his college career<\/a> and is only improving. \u00a0He could be a draft day find for someone in 2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Days 3-4<\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.d1baseball.com\/2013\/daily\/0615.htm\">Results<\/a>: Oregon State eliminates Louisville, Mississippi State beats Indiana, UNC eliminates LSU, and UCLA beats NC State.<\/li>\n<li>Louisville is the first team eliminated as their ace <b>Jeff Thompson<\/b>\u00a0(a third round 2013 pick for Detroit)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocards.com\/sports\/m-basebl\/stats\/2012-2013\/06-17-13.html\">gets pounded<\/a> for 7 runs in 3 2\/3 innings. \u00a0Not a great way to end your college career.<\/li>\n<li>Mississippi State puts itself in the driver&#8217;s seat to advance from Pot 2 with another 8th inning come-back to beat Indiana and now only needs one more win to get to the CWS final.<\/li>\n<li>LSU, the team that I thought would win the CWS a few days ago, became the 2nd team to be eliminated by falling to #1 overall seed UNC. \u00a0Tar Heels freshman &#8220;Closer&#8221;\u00a0<strong>Trent Thornton<\/strong> got the start and threw 7 decent innings to improve to 12-1 on the season. \u00a0The Tarheel&#8217;s offense got to LSU&#8217;s starter early to send my (and Baseball America pundits&#8217;) favorite home early.<\/li>\n<li>UCLA put itself in the drivers seat of Pot 1 by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uclabruins.com\/sports\/m-basebl\/stats\/2012-2013\/ucla63.html\">beating NC State 2-1<\/a>. \u00a0UCLA&#8217;s saturday starter\u00a0<strong>Nick Vander Tuig<\/strong>\u00a0(and San Francisco&#8217;s 6th round pick this year) junk-balled his way through 7 innings of 4-hit ball for the victory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Where do we stand in the tournament now\/What&#8217;s next?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">The next two days feature Elimination games.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Oregon State-Indiana is tonight 6\/19\/13. \u00a0Loser goes home. \u00a0The winner has to beat Mississippi State twice to get to the CWS Final.<\/li>\n<li>UNC faces NC State for the 5th time this season tomorrow night 6\/20\/13. \u00a0Loser goes home. \u00a0The winner has to then beat UCLA twice to get to the CWS final.<\/li>\n<li>UCLA and Mississippi State are both heavily favored at this point to advance; 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