Bay Area products Tommy Troy, Eddie Park have Stanford Cardinal on the brink of College World Series
Stanford is two wins at home from making its third consecutive trip to the College Baseball World Series.
The regular season Pac-12 champion Cardinal will need to defeat Texas in a best-of-three Super Regional series starting at 3 p.m. on Saturday to earn its 19th CWS appearance in Omaha, Neb.If Stanford advances, it would be the program’s longest run of consecutive CWS appearances since it went to five in a row from 1999-2003.
Top-seeded Stanford won three consecutive elimination games, beating Cal State Fullerton and Texas A&M on Sunday and Texas A&M again on Monday, to reach the Super Regionals. Projected first-round MLB draft pick Tommy Troy, a former Los Gatos High star, won the conference batting title with a .410 average. He also hit 17 home runs and stole 17 bases.
Eddie Park, a Valley Christian product, is hitting .337, and Serra alum Drew Dowd is tied for the team lead with nine wins.
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