The final piece of the NCAA baseball tournament’s Super Regional wasn’t set until 2 a.m. on Tuesday morning, after Maryland pitcher Kevin Mooney froze UCLA’s Darrell Miller Jr. with a breaking ball. That sent he Terrapins’ dugout into euphoria that spilled onto the field, celebrating a hard-fought 2-1 win over the Bruins and an unlikely second consecutive berth in the Super Regionals. Maryland will meet Virginia there for a second straight season, hoping unlike last year that it can break through and reach the College World Series in Omaha for the first time.
The Terrapins (42-22) will meet the Cavaliers on Friday riding the momentum of what was a wild weekend in California, where it once again shook up the college baseball landscape by stunning the powerful Bruins (45-16), the NCAA’s top-seeded team.