From the UofL Baseball home page:
The University of Louisville baseball team clinched the NCAA Nashville Regional with a 6-0 victory over Wright State on Sunday evening.
Louisville (38-21) is now headed to the super regional round for the 10th time in Dan McDonnell‘s 19 seasons. The Cardinals will play either Southern Miss or Miami in next week’s super regional. The two teams play a winner-take-all contest at Southern Miss on Monday at 9 p.m. ET.
In a weekend filled with strong pitching by the Cards, Sunday night was the exclamation mark.
Ethan Eberle (6-2) was masterful in his first career postseason start. The southpaw retired the first eight batters he faced on his way to a career-long outing. Eberle blanked the Raiders for 6.1 innings, surrendering just two hits while striking out a career-high 11.
The freshman turned things over to Wyatt Danilowicz with a pair of runners on and one out in the seventh. Danilowicz came on and got a strikeout before making an excellent play on a high chopper to strand the baserunners.
Danilowicz then mowed down the side in the eighth and ninth innings to send Louisville into the next round.
Here’s the icing on the cake. If Miami beats Southern Miss tonight, Louisville will host the Super Regional at Jim Patterson Stadium. If that happens, admission won’t be free like it was at other games this season, but whatever the price is, it will be worth it for Cards fans.
And this wouldn’t be a normal post from us without a shot at the Courier Journal: Here’s how the headline appears on its home page:
So, let’s get this straight: The local team wins to continue its possible journey to the College World Series, while its main rival loses and is out of the tournament. But the C-J places UofL’s success after two pieces of bad news for UK?
And that’s why they’re losing readers.
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