Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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UNDER THE DOME Athletics History: June Anniversaries In Notre Dame 55 Years Ago: June 8-11, 1957 Under head coach Jake Kline, Notre Dame competes in the eight-team Col- lege World Series in Omaha, Neb., for the first time ever. After opening with a 13-8 loss to Ohio State, Notre Dame stays alive with a 23-2 thrashing of Colorado State the next day — still a CWS record for runs in a game. On June 10, Irish pitcher Chuck Symeon allows only five hits in a 9-0 whitewash of Texas. The run to the na- tional title ends a day later with a 5-4 loss to Penn State. Remarkably, another Notre Dame CWS record that still Former Notre Dame AD Kevin White, former Alumni Association executive director Chuck Lennon and former baseball head coach Paul Mainari at the 2002 College World Series. PHOTO COURTESY NOTRE DAME MEDIA RELATIONS stands came from that trip: infielder Jim Morris' .714 batting average while getting hits in 10 of his 14 at-bats. tory, head coach Paul Mainieri's Irish stun No. 1 Florida State, 3-1, in Tallahassee to win the rubber game in a best-of-three series of the Super Regional and earn their first College World Series berth in 45 years. The Irish advance to the Super Regional by defeat- ing Ohio State twice and destroying top-seeded South Alabama, 25-1, in the South Bend Regional. It is led by the hitting of "The S Troop" of Steve Sollmann, Steve Stanley, Brian Stavisky and Javier Sanchez, while Kris Billmaier bats a torrid .615 in the South Bend Regional and Super Regional. 10 Years Ago: June 10, 2002 In a watershed moment in Notre Dame baseball his- of us: we're going to Tallahassee. Florida State is the unanimous No. 1 team in the country, they've won 25 in a row … they cruised through the ACC regular season and tournament, and the ACC is the No. 1-rated confer- ence in the country," recalled Manieri, now the head coach at LSU, which he has led to a national title. "So I looked around the room and said, 'It seems to me, boys, we have them right where we want them.' "Instead of being afraid of the situation at Florida State, we embraced it. We looked forward to it and were eager to get down there because we wanted to show we can play with anybody and beat them." In the eight-team double-elimination CWS a week later, Notre Dame sandwiches a 5-3 win over Rice be- tween losses to Stanford. JUNE/JULY 2012 23 — Lou Somogyi Freshman pitchers Grant Johnson and Chris Niesel pick up the wins at FSU. "I told our team, 'This is the challenge we have ahead