2007 College World Series

College World Series
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The 2007 College World Series was played at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, NE. The participating schools qualified by winning their Regional and Super-Regional tournaments. Oregon State University repeated as national champions, the first team to do since Louisiana State University in 1996-1997. OSU only trailed for one of 45 innings they played in the Series. They became the first CWS champ to have had a losing record in Conference play, going 10-14 in the Pacific-10 Conference to tie for sixth and almost being left out of the field of 64 to qualify for the Series. Jorge Reyes of Oregon State University was named Most Outstanding Player.

Participating Teams

Bracket 1

School		Conference	Record (Conference)	Head Coach	CWS Appearances	CWS Best Finish	CWS W-L Record
	Arizona State University	Pacific Ten Conference	48-13 (19-5)	Pat Murphy	19 (last: 2005)	1st (1965, 1967, 1969, 1977, 1981)	58-32
	California State University, Fullerton	Big West Conference	38-23 (10-11)	George Horton	14 (last: 2006)	1st (1979, 1984, 1995, 2004)	34-23
	University of California, Irvine	Big West Conference	45-15-1 (15-6)	Dave Serrano	0 (last: none)	none	0 - 0
	Oregon State University	Pacific Ten Conference	44-18 (10-14)	Pat Casey	3 (last: 2006)	1st (2006)	6-5

Bracket 1

School		Conference	Record (Conference)	Head Coach	CWS Appearances	CWS Best Finish	CWS W-L Record
	University of Louisville	Big East Conference	46-22 (19-8)	Dan McDonnell	0 (last: none)	none	0 - 0
	Mississippi State University	Southeastern Conference	38-20 (15-13)	Ron Polk	7 (last: 1998)	4th (1985)	7-14
	University of North Carolina	Atlantic Coast Conference	53-13 (21-9)	Mike Fox	5 (last: 2006)	2nd (2006)	6-10
	Rice University	Conference USA	54-12 (22-2)	Wayne Graham	5 (last: 2006)	1st (2003)	8-9

Results

2007 College World Series Bracket

	First round					Second round					Semifinals						Finals
		Oregon State	3
		Cal State Fullerton	2
							Oregon State	12
						5	Arizona State	6
	5	Arizona State	5
		UC-Irvine	4
												Oregon State	7	x
											UC-Irvine	1	x
		Cal State Fullerton	4
		UC-Irvine	5
							Arizona State	7
							UC-Irvine	8
																	Oregon State	11	9	x
																3	North Carolina	4	3	x
	2	Rice	15
		Louisville	10
						2	Rice	14
						3	North Carolina	4
		Mississippi State	5
	3	North Carolina	8
											2	Rice	1	4
										3	North Carolina	6	7
		Louisville	12
		Mississippi State	4
						3	North Carolina	3
							Louisville	1

Game Results

Date	Game	Winner	Score	Loser	Notes
June 15	Game 1	Rice	15-10	Louisville	The potent Louisville offense fares well against the top pitching staff in the country, but the Rice bats prove to be the difference.
	Game 2	North Carolina	8 - 5	Mississippi State
June 16	Game 3	Arizona State	5-4	UC Irvine
	Game 4	Oregon State	3-2	Fullerton State	Wes Roemer becomes the all-time Cal State Fullerton leader in strikeouts.
June 17	Game 5	Louisville	12-4	Mississippi State	Mississippi State eliminated It is the first time they are eliminated in two games since the 1971 Series
	Game 6	Rice	14-4	North Carolina
June 18	Game 7	UC Irvine	5-4 (13 innings)	Fullerton State	Fullerton eliminated. UC Irvine had been 4th in NCAA Division I in fielding percentage in 2007, yet made six errors. They still survive to win the longest game in College World Series history, 5 hours and 40 minutes. The previous-longest contest was 40 minutes shorter. It is the only 0-2 outing by Cal State Fullerton since 1990; they had been involved in 9 Series in that span.
	Game 8	Oregon State	12-6	Arizona State
June 19	Game 9	North Carolina	3-1	Louisville	Louisville eliminated Having averaged 9.9 runs per game since the qualifying tournaments began, Louisville's bats go silent at a crucial moment.
	Game 10	UC Irvine	8-7 (10 innings)	Arizona State	Arizona State eliminated. For the third time in four games, CSU Irvine wins in the final at-bat. They are the first team in the 61-year history of the College World Series to win extra-inning games two days in a row.
June 20	Game 11	North Carolina	6-1	Rice	UNC avenges a loss to Rice earlier in the tournament. They are the top two teams remaining in ranking, as Rice was #2 and UNC #3 nationally.
	Game 12	Oregon State	7-1	UC Irvine	UC Irvine eliminated
June 21	Game 13	North Carolina	7-4	Rice	Rice eliminated North Carolina sets up a rematch of the 2006 College World Series finals with their second straight win over Rice. It is only the second time in Series history that the same two teams met in the finals two straight years - the prior instance was 1972-1973 when Arizona State met Southern California.
June 23	Final 1	Oregon State	11-4	North Carolina
June 24	Final 2	Oregon State	9-3	North Carolina	Oregon State wins National Championship. OSU repeats as National Champs OSU is the first school to win the CWS despite a losing conference record

All Tournament Team

The following players were members of the All-Tournament Team.

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

Notable Players

• Arizona State University: Matt Spencer
• California State University, Fullerton: Wes Roemer
• University of California, Irvine: Bryan Petersen
• University of Louisville: Trystan Magnuson
• Mississippi State University: Ed Easley
• University of North Carolina: Dustin Ackley, Andrew Carignan, Tim Fedroff
• Oregon State University: Darwin Barney, Mitch Canham, Eddie Kunz, Jorge Reyes, Joey Wong
• Rice University: Joe Savery