Stanford Dispatches: WSU Pushes Stanford
PostseasonSTANFORD, Calif. — “Unless they bring the Red Sox and the Yankees into a regional, I’d say this is the toughest regional I’ve seen for sure,” Wright State head coach Jeff Mercer said.
Mercer and his fourth-seeded Raiders gave regional host Stanford, the NCAA tournament’s No. 2 overall seed, all it could handle, matching up with the Cardinal’s early round draft pick ace and scoring against its All-American-caliber closer.
Wright State sent the game into extra innings where both teams persevered through tense, hold-your-breath, rub-your-lucky-pineapple situations until the game’s fifth hour when a defensive replacement, Christian Robinson, hit a walk-off[…]
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