Although Notre Dame earned a spot in the College World Series for the third time in program history last year the Irish are far from a blue-blood in regards to college baseball. That said, they held a College World Series record for over 60-years that few are probably aware of.
Key word being held.
Florida and LSU are meeting in this year’s best-of-three championship round and it was the Tigers who had a chance to clinch things Sunday night in game two. Instead, Florida put it on LSU in grand fashion, earning a 24-4 victory and setting up a winner-take-all game on Monday.
The 24 runs scored by Florida are now a College World Series record, surpassing Notre Dame’s 23-run showing way back in 1957.
A 66 year old record fell today @CWSOmaha when the Florida Gators scored 24 runs — surpassing the 23 runs scored by the 1957 @NDBaseball team in the College World Series.
— Jim Small (@NDjsmall) June 26, 2023
That was a 23-2 win over Colorado State College in the losers bracket that kept the Irish alive. They’d eventually fall one round short of reaching the championship.
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