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USC Baseball Coach Rod Dedeaux Passes Away
Former USC Baseball Coach Rod Dedeaux at the 1995 NCAA Baseball World Series, Omaha, Nebraska with Flap, Jr.Los Angeles Times: Former USC Baseball Coach Rod Dedeaux Dies at 91
Rod Dedeaux, whose 45 years as USC’s baseball coach produced 11 national and 28 conference championship teams, died Thursday in Glendale of complications of a stroke he suffered Dec. 2. He was 91.
Dedeaux’s teams won a record 1,331 games before his retirement in 1986. From 1970 to 1974, his Trojans won five consecutive NCAA championships. No other school has won more than two in succession. He was named coach of the year six times by the American Baseball Coaches Assn., and was inducted into the organization’s Hall of Fame in 1970.
Flap has fond memories of “Coach of the Century.”
The most memorable was on the plane returning from Omaha after USC lost to Cal State Fullerton in the NCAA World Series Final Title game. Flap, Jr. and I were sitting across the aisle from this baseball giant and his insight and observations of the game and life are priceless.
May he rest in peace……..
Fight on Rod!
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USC Beats Oregon State 9-8
USC Trojan 3rd Baseman Billy Hart drove in the winning (walk-off) run in the bottom of the 10th inning to give USC a 9-8 come from behind victory over the Oregon State Beavers.
Box Score and stats tomorrow.
This Trojan win evens the NCAA Super Regional Series 1-1 with the deciding game to be played tomorrow at 1PM Pacific Time.
Fight On!
Update # 1Third baseman Billy Hart (Tustin/Mission Viejo HS) hit a bases-loaded infield single in the bottom of the 10th inning Sunday as the USC Trojans capped an improbable rally with a 9-8 win over the Oregon State Beavers to force a third and deciding NCAA Super Regional game Monday. Down by five runs in the eighth inning, USC scored twice in the eighth and three times in the ninth before winning in extra innings.
It was the first time in 19 games this season that USC (41-21) has won despite trailing after eight innings. Tomorrow’s game, originally scheduled for a 4 p.m. Pacific start, was moved up by request from ESPN to a 1 p.m. start.
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Errors Kill USC in Super Regional Loss to Oregon State
Billy Hart went 4-for-4 in Saturday’s 10-4 loss in game one at the NCAA Super Regional in Corvallis, Ore.The USC Trojans committed a season-high eight errors Saturday as the Oregon State Beavers won the first game of the NCAA Super Regional, 10-4, at Goss Stadium/Coleman Field. USC, who committed only 55 errors as a team through 60 games, allowed a total of nine unearned runs on the evening.
Oregon State (45-9), the reigning Pac-10 Conference champion, needs just one win to advance to the 2005 College World Series in Omaha, Neb.
The series continues Sunday with a 6 p.m. Pacific start with the series finale on Monday (June 13), if necessary, at 4 p.m. Both games will be broadcast live on ESPN2 with live stats on ncaasports.com.
Saturday Super Regional Results of all brackets is here.Go Trojans!
Fight On!
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USC Blazes Trail For Oregon State In NCAA Super Regional Action
The No. 21/18 USC baseball team (40-20) — winners of 12 NCAA championships, more than twice as many as any other school — will compete at the 2005 NCAA Super Regional this weekend (June 11-13) against No. 2 Oregon State (44-9) in Corvallis, Ore. The series begins on Saturday (June 11) at 7 p.m., continuing on Sunday (June 12) at 6 p.m. with a third game, if necessary, on Monday (June 13) at 4 p.m. All three games will be televised live on ESPN2 with Rich Cellini and Jerry Kindall calling the action. Live game stats will be available at ncaasports.com.
USC is making its 40th appearance in the NCAA Tournament and its first in three years. The Trojans have a 207-75 record in the postseason. In the last six appearances (1998, 99, 2000, 01, 02, 05), the Trojans have made three trips to the College World Series and registered a 30-12 record in postseason play. Prior to last weekend’s regional championship, the Trojans’ last appearance came in 2002 as USC swept the NCAA First-Round Regional at Dedeaux Field against BYU (twice) and Cal State Northridge before falling to Stanford in the Super Regional. This is the 12th time in the last 16 regional appearances that USC has had to travel in the first round.
OREGON STATE NOTES — Oregon State is 44-9 on the season after winning the Corvallis regional last weekend, which featured St. John’s, Virginia and Ohio State. The Beavers won the Pac-10 Conference title for the first time since 1952. Head coach Pat Casey is 339-234-4 in his 11th season at Oregon State. The team is batting .321 while its pitching staff has a 2.92 ERA. Outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury, a 2005 first-round selection, is batting .416 with six home runs, 46 RBI and 22 stolen bases. Friday starter Dallas Buck is 11-1 with a 1.97 ERA (114 1/3 IP, 76 H, 25 ER, 43 BB, 114 SO,. 187 opponents’ batting average). USC leads the all-time series by a 33-10 margin. Oregon State took two of three from USC on May 20-22 in Corvallis (5-4, 10-7, 2-12). The Trojans took two of three games from the Beavers in the only postseason meeting between the two schools during the 1963 District 8 Playoffs in Corvallis (6-5, 6-8, 7-5).
The College World Series Tournament bracket is posted at the 2005 College World Series website.
Stay Tuned.
Fight On!