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Congrats Beavers

HeyBatterHeyBatter1,000+ posts
Congratulations to the Oregon State Beavers!!!! And congrats too to NC and all the teams who made for a great CWS in 2006.

Oregon State showed the heart's of champions becoming the first team ever (well with the new format after all) to lose two games at Omaha and come out on top. they also set a record in facing 6 elimination games in the tournament.

If it is of interest, below is a history of the CWS (and some of my west coast biased comments).

It is of note that 6 of the 9 Pac 10 teams that play baseball have won the CWS with USC leading the way with a record 12 championships (Go Trojans).

Throw in Cal State Fullerton and Pepperdine and that's 8 teams from California/Oregon/Arizona that have won a total of 30 of the 60 CWS that have been played.

Ohio State is the last Big 10 school to win, in 1966. Wake Forest is the last ACC school to win, in 1955.

Texas/Miami/LSU have accounted for 15 championships between 'em. (Did I mention that USC alone has 12).

Division I Baseball Champions

Year Champion Score Runner-Up
1947 California 8-7 Yale
1948 Southern California 9-2 Yale
1949 Texas 10-3 Wake Forest
1950 Texas 3-0 Washington St.
1951 Oklahoma 3-2 Tennessee
1952 Holy Cross 8-4 Missouri
1953 Michigan 7-5 Texas
1954 Missouri 4-1 Rollins
1955 Wake Forest 7-6 Western Mich.
1956 Minnesota 12-1 Arizona
1957 California 1-0 Penn St.
1958 Southern California 8-7 Missouri
1959 Oklahoma St. 5-3 Arizona
1960 Minnesota 2-1# Southern California
1961 Southern California 1-0 Oklahoma St.
1962 Michigan 5-4 Santa Clara
1963 Southern California 5-2 Arizona
1964 Minnesota 5-1 Missouri
1965 Arizona St. 2-1 Ohio St.
1966 Ohio St. 8-2 Oklahoma St.
1967 Arizona St. 11-2 Houston
1968 Southern California 4-3 Southern Ill.
1969 Arizona St. 10-1 Tulsa
1970 Southern California 2-1 Florida St.
1971 Southern California 7-2 Southern Ill.
1972 Southern California 1-0 Arizona St.
1973 Southern California 4-3 Arizona St.
1974 Southern California 7-3 Miami (Fla.)
1975 Texas 5-1 South Carolina
1976 Arizona 7-1 Eastern Mich.
1977 Arizona St. 2-1 South Carolina
1978 Southern California 10-3 Arizona St.
1979 Cal St. Fullerton 2-1 Arkansas
1980 Arizona 5-3 Hawaii
1981 Arizona St. 7-4 Oklahoma St.
1982 Miami (Fla.) 9-3 Wichita St.
1983 Texas 4-3 Alabama
1984 Cal St. Fullerton 3-1 Texas
1985 Miami (Fla.) 10-6 Texas
1986 Arizona 10-2 Florida St.
1987 Stanford 9-5 Oklahoma St.
1988 Stanford 9-4 Arizona St.
1989 Wichita St. 5-3 Texas
1990 Georgia 2-1 Oklahoma St.
1991 LSU 6-3 Wichita St.
1992 Pepperdine 3-2 Cal St. Fullerton
1993 LSU 8-0 Wichita St.
1994 Oklahoma 13-5 Georgia Tech
1995 Cal St. Fullerton 11-5 Southern California
1996 LSU 9-8 Miami (Fla.)
1997 LSU 13-6 Alabama
1998 Southern California 21-14 Arizona St.
1999 Miami (Fla.) 6-5 Florida St.
2000 LSU 6-5 Stanford
2001 Miami (Fla.) 12-1 Stanford
2002 Texas 12-6 South Carolina
2003 Rice 14-2 Stanford
2004 Cal St. Fullerton 3-2 Texas
2005 Texas 6-2 Florida
2006 Oregon St. 3-2 N. Carolina
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justbaseballjustbaseball10,000+ posts
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Throw in Cal State Fullerton and Pepperdine and that's 8 teams from California/Oregon/Arizona that have won a total of 30 of the 60 CWS that have been played.


Not taking anything away from anyone else (rest easy ACC and SEC fans)...but why is it that the West Coast teams still don't get enough love when the selections come out? At a minimum, Washington should have been in there too this year. Mr. Lincecum would have wreaked havoc with some top-20 team. As college baseball fans...we were all deprived of seeing his magic worked from the mound on national TV.
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HeyBatterHeyBatter1,000+ posts
justbb- I think there's a bit of east coast bias in most all college sports. football and basketball rankings usually "tilt" to the east too. Maybe just the time differences and alot of west coast teams don't get seen in the east.

Interesting, in D-3 baseball of the 31 world series played dating back to 1976, 4 have been won by California schools and 1 by an Oregon school.
In that division the east/north/northeast have dominated with E. Connecticut and Marietta, Ohio leading the way with 4 championships each.

justbb- BTW, how's Eric doing? Hope everything is going well.
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HeyBatterHeyBatter1,000+ posts
beezer- don't see my Trojans making a big splash next year. They have unfortunately been on a bit of a downward trend of late and not done a whole lot since their '98 CWS Championship. The 06 season concluded with a monumental skid over the last month or so.

Next season they look to lose their #1 pitcher who was drafted 1st round and they likely look to lose their #1 recruit who was also taken in the 1st round.

Their coaching change, with Gillespie leaving and son-in-law Chad Krueter being hired does not seem to have been too well accepted so far in the land of Troy.

Most of all, the Pac-10 is always tough and in Los Angeles, ucla presently seems to be leading the way

But at least the baseball team isn't leading the conference in arrests like their football counterparts so there is always hope.

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