Cox brings a 47-game hitting streak into Omaha, while Quinn has hit safely in his last 16 games. Quinn and Jonah Cox share the postseason team lead with 12 RBI. That trio includes Justin Quinn (19-for-43 442), Jake McMurray (17-for-41. 355 with three players all sporting batting averages above. During those nine games, the team is batting. The Golden Eagles are 8-1 during a postseason run that has seen them win the Summit League Tournament, Stillwater Regional and Eugene Super Regional and headed to Men’s College World Series for the first time since 1978. ORU head coach Ryan Folmar is the only skipper in DI baseball that won Conference Coach of the Year honors (sixth time), a regular season title, a conference tournamen title, a NCAA Regional and a NCAA Super Regional this season. The Pioneers played in the College Cup semifinals that season, falling to Wake Forest. This marks the second time in League history that a Summit team has advanced to the final NCAA stage of its respective sport as ORU joins the 2016 Denver men’s soccer team with that distinction. CT on ESPN)Įugene Super Regional: at Oregon (L, 9-8 W, 8-7 W, 11-6) 4 seeds Advancing To The Men’s College World SeriesĢ023 | Oral Roberts (first Summit League team to make the MCWS)Ģ012 | Stony Brook (0-2 eliminated after two games)Ģ008 | Fresno State (5-2 won national championship) 984 clip is currently the same as the Omaha Mavericks’ single-season League record mark that club set in 2019 when it won the regular season and tournament titles. 984 | ORU’s defense has committed just two errors in 215 chances during six NCAA Tournament games, leaving the Golden Eagles as the top ranked defensive team in DI with a. The 2004 ORU squad held the previous mark of 50.ġ10 | Cox needs one more hit to tie the Summit League single-season record for hits, which is currently held by former South Dakota State Jackrabbit Billy Stitz at 111 (2010). Oklahoma State’s Robin Ventura brough a 56-game hitting streak to Omaha in 1987 and pushed that to the current record of 58 consecutive before going hitless in the Cowboys’ third game against Stanford.ĥ1 | ORU’s game three win over the Ducks was also the 51st win of the season for the Golden Eagles, who established a new Summit League single-season and program record for victories in a season. 340 as a team, held a team ERA of 3.17 and only made 12 errors in 737 chances (.984) during that record-breaking stretch.Ĥ7 | ORU centerfielder Jonah Cox hit safely in each game of the Eugene Super Regional to extend his hitting streak to 47 games, which is tied for the third longest in Division I history with Wichita State’s Phil Stephenson (1981). Those 15 saves are also tied for a Summit League single-season record (Jason Markert, ORU 2000).Ģ1 | ORU had its Summit League-record 21-game winning streak snapped in game one of the Eugene Super Regional, which was the longest by any DI team this season. The Denver men’s soccer team, South Dakota volleyball team and South Dakota State women’s basketball team each won an NCAA Tournament game this year.ġ5 | Golden Eagle closer Cade Denton shares the DI lead with 15 saves on the season after registering one in each game of the Stillwater Regional. This is the furthest a Summit League team has advanced in baseball posteason play.īY THE NUMBERS: ORAL ROBERTS | THE SUMMIT LEAGUEġ | With its game three win over Oregon in the Eugene Super Regional, Oral Roberts became the first Summit League team to advance to the Men’s College World Series.Ĩ | With ORU’s five NCAA Baseball Tournament wins so far, Summit League teams have now won eight NCAA postseason games in 2022-23, breaking the single-season mark of seven set during the 2008-98 academic years. ORU beat TCU twice at the 2014 Austin Regional. The teams split a pair of matchups in 2011 at the Fort Worth Regional, while TCU got the upperhand in a 2016 Fort Worth Regional tilt. TCU did get the best of ORU a season ago, posting a 3-1 victory to eliminate the Golden Eagles from the 2022 College Station Regional. The Horned Frogs will be a famililar foe for ORU as those two programs have met 45 times with the Golden Eagles holding a 26-19 edge in the all-time series and a 3-3 mark in NCAA postseason play. The dual Summit League titles marked the 20th time that the ORU program won both the regular season and tournament crowns in the same season since 1999. ORU became the first team in League history to qualify for the final stage of the NCAA Baseball Tournament after taking two of three from Oregon at the Eugene Super Regional that the Ducks hosted last weekend. OMAHA - Summit League regular season and tournament champion Oral Roberts will play in the opening game of the 2023 Men's College World Series Friday when the Golden Eagles take on TCU at 1 p.m. #SummitBSB Weekly Notebook: College World Series Edition.
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