What a comeback

First college baseball team to win the championship after a losing record in the regular season.

clipped from blog.oregonlive.com OSU Beavers repeat as national baseball champions Oregon State successfully defended its NCAA College World Series Championship today by defeating North Carolina, 9-3. The Beavers won their 11th consecutive game to sweep the series against North Carolina, which also was their opponent in last year's championship. Oregon State held off rallies by North Carolina to become the fifth school to win back-to-back baseball national titles. The last team to do so was Louisiana State in 1996-97. The championship came despite losing several starters from last year's championship team as well as sustaining a stretch of defeats during the regular season. Those losses, which resulted in a losing record in the Pacific 10 conference, left OSU's selection for the NCAA tournament in doubt. But after being chosen for the tourney, OSU stormed through the regionals, super regionals and, finally, the College World Series in Omaha.