"We were fighting for national respect, to show that we're not only a great school, but that we've got a great baseball team too," Walsh said.
Notes
Junior third baseman Hal Carey ended the season on a 15-game hitting streak. The Needham, Mass., product went 9-for-14 in the Regional, scored five runs and drove in six.
Captain David Forst finished the season with a school-record 67 hits, breaking the previous mark of 64 set by Andrew Huling and Brian Ralph in 1997. A career .298 hitter with 26 RBI entering the season, Forst finished the year with a team-high .406 batting average and 39 RBI.
Jamieson won both games of the Regional Tournament. In addition to the win over Tulane, he nailed down a relief win with one and two-thirds innings against Nicholls State. Freshman John Birtwell pitched seven and one-third innings of one-run ball to stake the Crimson to a 3-1 lead, but Nicholls State tallied two in the eighth off of sophomore Mike Madden to send the game into the 10th.
Forst, Carey and junior catcher Jason Keck logged three hits apiece in the game. Carey also scored twice and drove in three runs, including the game-winner in the 10th.