I'll be honest and admit that I do not follow the NCAA College Baseball Tournament (AKA The College World Series) as closely as some other people but a boxscore caught my eye over the night between the #1 seeded Texas Longhorns and the Boston College Eagles, who needed twenty-five innings to decide their contest.
Texas ended up winning in the top of the 25th off of an RBI single by Travis Tucker which gave the Longhorns a 3-2 win. This ended up being the longest game in NCAA Baseball history, eclipsing the record 23 innings done by Louisiana-Lafayette and McNeese State back in 1971.
The game itself had a start time of 7:02 pm EDT on Saturday and did not end till Sunday at 2:05am est. To put this in perspective, Game One of the Stanley Cup and the Eastern Conference Finals game six were already completed and had finished their postgame wrap-up shows.
The real star of this game was Texas pitcher Austin Wood (pictured above) who pitched 13 innings of work including 12 1/3 of those innings being no-hit baseball. Wood's arm is probably ready to fall off any minute now.
Texas stays alive and moves on to play in the regional championship game and Boston College ends up being a footnote in one of the strangest and longest college baseball games ever played.
(Some information used from an ESPN.com article and My San Antonio.com Article)
Sometimes Marathons Need to End: The Texas Longhorns win in 25 innings
