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College Baseball Regionals 2013: Day 2 Results, Recap and Analysis

Published by on June 1, 2013

Friday's opening regional action in the 2013 College World Series was one of the more action-filled Day 1s in recent memory.

It was a 32-game marathon across the country that boasted walk-off home runs, dominant pitching performances and the occasional 31-run donnybrook between Kansas State and Wichita State, a game that by only sheer miracle did not shatter the scoreboard in Manhattan.

And the best part is that everyone got to wake up and do it all over again Saturday. Well, maybe that's not great for the players. But the road to Omaha stops for no one, and Day 2 of the regional action certainly had a lot to live up to. 

That being said, Saturday's matchups had tension bubbling for half the field that wasn't looming over teams 24 hours prior—the prospect of elimination. The double-elimination format of these mini-tournaments going on across 16 cities is captivating for audiences, but puts teams in situations where they cannot have a major slip-up. 

One bad pitching performance, on...

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