Stony Brook Seawolves roll LSU Tigers to reach (first-ever) College World Series

[JonLP24]

BATON ROUGE, La. -- Frankie Vanderka tossed a complete game three-hitter and Stony Brook advanced to its first-ever College World Series with a 7-2 win against LSU on Sunday night.

"I'm a little overwhelmed, quite frankly, because I think I do know the magnitude of this," said Stony Brook coach Matt Senk. "It's just an overwhelming feeling to make it to Omaha -- every college baseball team's dream, every college baseball coach's dream -- and it's come to fruition."

The Seawolves (52-13) raced out of the gate with six runs in the game's first four innings, most of them coming off LSU starter Ryan Eades. The LSU bullpen was eventually able to stymie the Stony Brook bats, but the damage was done.

Vanderka, who lost game one of this super regional Saturday morning, was effective if not overpowering in just his sixth start of the season. The sophomore gave up a solo home run to LSU center fielder Mason Katz in the bottom of the first inning, and he notched just four strikeouts on the night.

http://espn.go.com/colleges/lsu/story/_/id/8035856/stony-brook-seawolves-roll-lsu-tigers-reach-college-world-series

[Renew Deal]

1. That will get the NY media market to pay attention.

Stony Brook had a great run in college football this year too.

[Indianademocrat91]

2. Kent State with a walkoff win over Oregon to go to Omaha!

What a game! Kent State and Stony Brook, who would have guessed that?

[wilt the stilt]

3. really pretty amazing-SUNY's not known for sports

Moat of the schools are really D2 and D3 schools. Suny's are small compared to other state schools. Most of the schools are 10,000-15,000 students.

Stonybrook was known for great Rock concerts. I saw the Allmans, Dead, Jefferson Airplane, van morrison, Bonnie and Delaney, Moody blues and many others there. great place.