The BYU baseball team was not looking good.
In a three game series against Gonzaga, the Cougars needed only one win to win the conference regular season title outright. Their hot bats had plowed the way to a dominating 5th best in the nation runs-per-game scoring clip. The Batcats had a murderer’s row of base-hitters and heavy swingers, and they had all the momentum.
But Gonzaga flattened them. Over and over.
Pitchers were walking in runs with bases loaded. Celebrated slugger Colton Shaver suddenly was swinging at everything that moved, and not making much contact. Tanner Chauncey, one of the toughest players to strike out in the NCAA, found no quarter with the Zag’s pitching staff.