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Was Willis named MVP of this Regional?
Bump…College Park Regional
Maryland won a program-record 45 games and is hosting a regional for the first time in program history. The Terps rank third nationally with 123 home runs. … Wake Forest is one spot behind Maryland with 115 home runs. The Demon Deacons, in the field for the first time since 2017, are hitting .319 as a team and lead the ACC with 539 runs scored. … UConn enters the regional with 46 wins (second-most in program history), including 26 away from home. Sophomore outfielder Korey Morton has been limited to 34 games due to injury but is hitting .442 and slugging .726. … Long Island, in the field for the third time, played only one game in 2022 against a team that earned a spot in a regional — a 7-2 loss at Army on May. 3.
- Maryland (No. 15)
- Wake Forest
- Connecticut
- Long Island
Predicted winner: UConn
Some love from The Athletic.
All heroes wear Hook Cs
Nothing like Maryland crowd or what I imagine Texas State's crowd would be. They are a laid back CA crowd. Plus we have 3 or 4 kids from Cali who I'm sure will have plenty of family in the stands. We held our own earlier this year when we played out there.Sheesh I don’t know. Are you watching the game right now? That place is loud. And Stanford is #2 overall for a reason.
-> “Toughness isn’t something you see a ton of baseball anymore unfortunately. And UConn is tough,” Maryland head coach Rob Vaughn said. “That’s a tough, tough group of guys. They played hard. They made pitches in big spots. They made plays in big spots. They had tough ABs. It’s a tough team. Coach Penders and his staff do an unbelievable job.” <-
Sure, every good team has its won’t-be-defeated heartbeat, but the roster full of them has mostly become an archaic relic of a former era. One place it’s still thriving is in Storrs, Connecticut, a rural destination where it takes 20 minutes to wind your way through the woods to find the campus once you depart the closest highway. There, Jim Penders has no intention of changing the foundation of the UConn baseball program his father, uncle and he played for before Jim took over as head coach in 2004.