It turns out that the defending champions of the college baseball team didn’t have to beat the same team twice to advance to the College World Series finals; they got some help from COVID.
The NCAA announced early Saturday morning that the North Carolina state baseball team had been disqualified from a game against Vanderbilt that was drawn the winner later that day. ” and NC State is done for the year after reaching the national semifinals in an incredible playoff run.
NC State, which were a Cinderella team in the playoffs, went 2-0 in their first two games in Omaha, Nebraska, where the wolf pack finished in the bottom four of the game, before the wolf pack had to face Vanderbilt on Friday afternoon Pausing 14 players for COVID tracking. One player tested positive and his Omaha roommate was linked to other players in the pursuit.
The Wolfpack could have lost Friday’s game to Vanderbilt, who beat NC State twice, but they pushed forward. NC State played the game with just nine positional players and four pitchers on the list. Vanderbilt won Friday’s game 3: 1, setting up a game on Saturday, with the winner progressing to the finals to face either Mississippi State or Texas; Texas defeated Mississippi State late Friday (early Saturday) in a rain delay game that was a winner on Saturday night Move-on game prepared.
Vanderbilt is the reigning national champion following the Commodores’ 2019 win over Michigan, and no tournament was played in 2020 after the global COVID-19 pandemic sidelined all winter and spring sports college championships.
