To many, Daniel Murphy’s tale of postseason heroics started Oct. 9, when he took Clayton Kershaw deep in the fourth inning of Game 1 of the NLDS to give the Mets the lead in a win over the Dodgers.
But at Jacksonville University, the small Division-I school Murphy led to the 2006 NCAA Regionals, it began almost a decade ago.
Current Jacksonville head coach Tim Montez was an assistant on a team that went 43-19 and finished first in the Atlantic Sun Conference and while the details might not be recalled exactly in a recent phone interview, the emotions are.