61st Annual 
2007 COLLEGE WORLD SERIES
June 15-24 






Regional
at Charlottesville, VA

 Super Regional
at Corvallis, OR

 College World Series
at Omaha, NE

OSU - 5
OSU - 4
OSU - 5
OSU - 5
OSU - 7 		Rutgers - 1
Virginia - 7 (13)
Rutgers - 2
Virginia - 3
Virginia - 3 		OSU - 1
OSU - 8 		Michigan - 0
Michigan - 2 		OSU - 3
OSU - 12
OSU - 7
OSU - 11
OSU - 9 		Cal State-Fullerton - 2
Arizona State - 6
UC-Irvine - 1
North Carolina - 4
North Carolina - 3

 



 Championship Series Game 1 Box Score   1     2     3     4     5     6     7     8     9     R     H     E  
 NORTH CAROLINA TAR HEELS 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 4 12 2
 OREGON STATE BEAVERS 0 2 1 0 1 2 4 1 X 11 12 2

WP: Jorge Reyes (7-3); LP: Alex White (6-7); S: Joe Paterson (2).
HRs: Benji Johnson (UNC); Jordan Lennerton (OSU).

 



 Championship Series Game 2 Box Score   1     2     3     4     5     6     7     8     9     R     H     E  
 OREGON STATE BEAVERS 0 3 1 0 1 0 2 0 2 9 13 0
 NORTH CAROLINA TAR HEELS 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 9 2

WP: Mike Stutes (12-4); LP: Luke Pektonen (8-2).
HRs: Darwin Barney, Jordan Lennerton (OSU); Dustin Ackley (UNC).





2007 CWS All-Tournament Team

Andrew Carignan (P) - North Carolina
Jorge Reyes (P) - Oregon State
 Reyes named Most Outstanding Player
Mitch Canham (C) - Oregon State
Dustin Ackley (1B) - North Carolina
Joey Wong (2B) - Oregon State
 Diego Seastrunk (3B) - Rice
Darwin Barney (SS) - Oregon State
Tim Fedroff (OF) - North Carolina
Bryan Petersen (OF) - UC-Irvine
Scott Santschi (OF) - Oregon State
Mike Lissman (DH) - Oregon State






  • Oregon State played the first and last games of the 2007 NCAA baseball season. The Beavers opened with a 5-0 win on January 25 at Hawaii-Hilo and closed with its CWS title game over North Carolina on June 24.

  • Both of Oregon State's opponents in the Charlottesville Regional, Virginia and Rutgers, were first-time foes for the Beavers on the baseball diamond. Interestingly, Virginia played two games in the Corvallis Regional in 2005. After losing close games to Ohio State and St. John's, the Cavaliers headed home without facing the Beavers.

  • OSU was seeded third in the Regional, which makes its CWS championship especially remarkable—it's the equivalent of a #9, #10, #11, or #12 regional seed in the NCAA basketball tournament winning it all. In 2008, Fresno State became the only regional fourth seed ever to win the CWS.

  • After knocking off Vanderbilt, the top seed in the 64-team tournament, Michigan appeared ready to end the Big Ten's appearance draught at the CWS. No team from the Big Ten Conference has played in the CWS since the Wolverines in 1984. (Michigan has reached the CWS seven times and claims two titles—1953 & 1962.) As a #2 seed, the Wolverines held preference over #3-seeded Oregon State to host the Super Regional, but post-season renovations on its baseball field opened the door for Goss Stadium. In the first game of the Super Regional, Michigan held Oregon State hitless through 8 2/3 innings. The lone OSU hit was a two-out RBI single to register the only score of the game.

  • Oregon State's "three-peat" appearance at the CWS is not unheard of, but still puts the Beavers in some fairly limited company. Over the years, 14 other schools have reached the CWS three or more consecutive seasons. Oklahoma State has recorded the longest string. The Cowboys played in seven straight CWS (1981 through 1987).

  • OSU's four CWS appearances have been all-or-nothing affairs. In 1952 and 2005, it was two-and-out for the Beavers, whereas Oregon State won national titles in 2006 and 2007.

  • There were two rookie teams at the 2007 CWS—Cal-Irvine and Louisville. Arizona State, Cal State-Fullerton, Mississippi State, North Carolina, and Rice were hardly strangers in Omaha. The five schools had 55 CWS appearances among them, including ten championships.

  • Oregon State in 2006 and North Carolina in 2007 took similar routes to the CWS championship round—at the expense of Rice. OSU and UNC bested the Owls twice to reach the finals.

  • The unlikely 2007 CWS championship rematch between Oregon State and North Carolina was not the first time same opponents have met in consecutive CWS championship games. USC defeated Arizona State in 1972 and again in 1973.

  • In contrast to 2006, when Oregon State played much of that CWS with its back up against the wall, the Beavers enjoyed a certain degree of momentum which enabled them to move through the 2007 CWS with relative ease. When North Carolina scored in the first inning of the second game against Oregon State, it was the first and only time the Beavers trailed any opponent throughout the 2007 CWS (45 total innings). OSU retook the lead in its subsequent at-bat and did not relinquish it the remainder of the contest. Starting with the third inning of the Charlottesville Regional championship game, the Beavers assembled 61 consecutive post-season innings during which OSU was not behind. Going back to the fourth inning of the second game versus the Tar Heels in 2006, Oregon State had amassed 50 straight innings in CWS play without trailing.

  • Oregon State became the first team ever to win the CWS after posting a sub-.500 conference record during the regular season. The Beavers ended Pac-10 play at 10-14, tied for sixth place with Washington State. Only Stanford and USC finished below OSU.

  • Due to its unimpressive conference performance, Oregon State was considered a bubble team for one of the 64 slots in the NCAA post-season field. Three factors helped the Beavers qualify—the fact that OSU was the defending national champion; Oregon State's 28-3 record outside the Pac-10, including road wins over Georgia, Missouri, Texas A&M, and UNLV; and winning two of three games in their Pac-10 season finale series at UCLA.

  • The 2007 Pac-10 champion was Arizona State (19-5). The Beavers posted a 1-3 record against the Sun Devils prior to the CWS. OSU won a February non-league affair, then suffered a three-game conference series sweep at Corvallis late in the season. ASU was seeded #5 in the 64-team post-season tournament.

  • Oregon State's 2007 CWS championship marked only the fifth time in NCAA history that a team has won back-to-back titles. The others to have accomplished the feat are Texas (1949 & 1950), USC (five consecutive titles from 1970 through 1974), Stanford (1987 & 1988), and LSU (1996 & 1997).

  • Six Pac-10 teams have won national championships in baseball. USC leads all schools nationwide with 12 titles; Arizona State has been the CWS winner five times; Arizona claims three trophies (most of the Arizona schools' titles occurred prior to joining the Pac-10 Conference in 1978); California, Stanford, and Oregon State have all won twice. Surprisingly, while UCLA has more NCAA titles than any other school in the nation, none have come in baseball. In fact, the Bruins have appeared in the CWS just twice. Of the remaining Pac-10 schools, only Washington has never played in the CWS. Even Oregon, which dropped intercollegiate baseball following the 1981 season, made it to Omaha once. (The Ducks reinstated baseball in 2009.)

  • Oregon State has produced two NCAA championships in four CWS appearances. Only two other schools have better CWS appearance-to-title ratios. Minnesota has won three championships in just five trips to the CWS (the Gophers won their first three times at Omaha). USC is 12 for 21 (including a stretch of seven straight appearances/titles between 1968 and 1978). Pepperdine and Wake Forest, like OSU, have turned half their CWS participations into NCAA trophies (both the Waves and the Demon Deacons have one NCAA championship to show for two CWS appearances).

  • The dubious distinction for CWS futility goes to Florida State. Through 2007, the Seminoles have appeared in 18 CWS without a title (only five schools have made more trips to Omaha than FSU). As a matter of fact, FSU has played in the championship game just three times.





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