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O’Connor’s experience in Omaha comforting to a team that has never been there
There’s something about having been to Omaha before that’s comforting for Brian O’Connor and some of his coaching staff.
Virginia ace Andrew Abbott said it’s important for this team to stop and smell the roses
Andrew Abbott, who will start Sunday’s College World Series game against Tennessee, almost has to pinch himself to believe that he and his teammates are really in Omaha.
Schoch should be ready to go for UVA, Bales a question mark for CWS
Virginia is on the eve of its fifth appearance in the College World Series, bracing for a meeting with No. 3 national seed Tennessee on Sunday.
Paul Mainieri breaks down UVA-Tennessee
LSU coach Paul Mainieri joins “The Jerry Ratcliffe Show” to talk about his former pitching coach, Brian O’Connor, and break down UVA vs. Tennessee coming up on Sunday in the 2021 College World Series.
Abbott, Bales collects honors from ABCA, NCBWA, Baseball America
Senior pitcher Andrew Abbott garnered All-America honors from the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association and Baseball America. Reliever Blake Bales was a second team selection on the NCBWA’s All-America team.
UVA Baseball back on the road to Omaha
“The Jerry Ratcliffe Show” breaks down UVA’s improbable run to another College World Series berth.
Kyle “Bad News” Teel’s grand salami lifts Virginia to College World Series
Way back in early April, when Virginia’s baseball team was a golf ball lost in the weeds, Brian O’Connor was looking for answers.
Grand slam lifts Virginia past Dallas Baptist and into College World Series
On the brink of elimination for the sixth time in postseason, Virginia beat the odds once again on Monday when freshman Kyle Teel smashed a seventh-inning grand slam to lift the Cavaliers to a series-clinching, 5-2 win over Dallas Baptist, punching their ticket to the College World Series.
Bloody McGarry delivers performance of his life in propelling Cavaliers into championship game
While Griff McGarry was putting on a masterful performance in Virginia’s win over Dallas Baptist in Game 2 of the NCAA Super Regional in Columbia, S.C., on Sunday, perhaps a lighter moment helped the senior right-hander smooth his way through his only bump in the road.
Virginia’s late offensive explosion lifts Cavaliers into series-deciding Game 3 vs. Dallas Baptist
In a classic pitching duel between Virginia’s Griff McGarry and Dallas Baptist’s Rhett Kouba, it appeared the outcome would be determined by which pitcher could outlast the other.
Virginia falls in Game 1 of Super Regionals on controversial call
Backs against the wall has been Virginia baseball’s calling card for the past two months, and the Cavaliers will once again draw on that mantra on Sunday in the best-of-three Super Regional against Dallas Baptist.
NCAA blew it by not moving Super Regional to C’ville or Dallas
While all the other Super Regionals are being played at home sites, Virginia and Dallas Baptist won’t have that luxury. The NCAA, set in its ways, apparently didn’t even consider moving the Super Regional to either Dallas/Fort Worth or to Charlottesville.
Big Donkey keeps things light as Virginia intensely marches toward Super Regional battle with Dallas Baptist
At least a million baseball fans became familiar with Virginia’s overnight sensation Stephen Schoch after he made a sizable splash in Virginia’s romp to the NCAA Columbia regional championship last weekend.
‘The Jerry Ratcliffe Show’ previews the UVA-Dallas Baptist Super Regional
Dr. Winston Gwathmey from UVA Orthopedics joins “The Jerry Ratcliffe Show” to help Jerry and AFP editor Chris Graham preview the UVA-Dallas Baptist Super Regionals series.
John Grisham discusses ‘Sooley,’ Coach K, college baseball
Best-selling novelist John Grisham joins “The Jerry Ratcliffe Show” to talk about his first basketball novel, Sooley, and also dishes on ACC hoops and college baseball.
Teel named to Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-America team
UVA first-year Kyle Teel was named to the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Freshman All-America team as a designated hitter.
Abbott named semifinalist for Golden Spikes Award
Andrew Abbott has been named as one of 25 semifinalists for the Golden Spikes Award, annually bestowed on the top amateur baseball player of the year.
MVP Ortiz was Virginia’s Secret Weapon in advancing to Super Regional
Devin Ortiz, the team’s senior designated hitter, had only pitched two innings during the season. Sure, Virginia’s deep and talented pitching staff had been mostly used up, but Ortiz?
Virginia comes from behind again to win regional, moves to NCAA Super Regional
Devin Ortiz started Virginia’s NCAA regional championship on the mound Tuesday morning and finished it in the afternoon with a 10th-inning walk-off home run that catapulted the Cavaliers into next weekend’s Super Regional with a 4-3 win over Old Dominion.
Behind record-setting pitching, Virginia dominates ODU to set up Monday night championship game
On the brink of elimination in a marathon NCAA regional doubleheader, and after watching gritty, record-breaking performances, some completely unexpected, Virginia coach Brian O’Connor put a ribbon on Sunday’s wins over South Carolina and Old Dominion.
