OMAHA, Neb. — The Huskies waited the entire history of their baseball program to finally make the College World Series, and then on Monday they waited and waited some more, waited interminably, to see if they were going to stay more than two games.
It was the mother of all weather delays, four hours and 31 minutes confined to their locker room, and when it finally ended, a triumphant, groundbreaking Husky season crumbled in the eerie stillness of the Omaha night.
This was a schizophrenic game broken into two distinct parts, one a taut affair in which the Huskies had appeared to grab the momentum and took a one-run lead into the sixth inning.