Virginia beats Vanderbilt to win first College World Series championship

Source: Washington Post

Colleges
By Isabelle Khurshudyan June 25 at 12:26 AM

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With a 4-2 win over Vanderbilt, the Cavaliers became national champions for the first time in program history, making up for a runner-up finish to the Commodores last season and ending a 60-year drought for Atlantic Coast Conference teams.

“I didn’t want to get in the bottom of the dogpile and get hurt,” said closer Josh Sborz, the most outstanding player of the College World Series. “Everyone was trying to avoid the bottom. The last time we did it, someone got a bloody nose, but we dogpiled, no one got hurt and that was the best thing.”



Virginia players celebrate with a dog pile. (Nati Harnik/Associated Press)

This celebration was made sweeter by the journey — bloody noses included. It was a ride Virginia Coach Brian O’Connor never forgot to tell his team to savor. The Cavaliers won their first national championship in a fashion emblematic of their bewildering season, again coming through when it mattered.

“Nobody gave them a chance,” O’Connor said. “Every step of the way, everybody was predicting somebody else to win.”

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