The University of Arizona baseball team (44-19) secured two of three games from the No. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Chapel Hill Super Regional from June 7-9, punching its ticket to the College World Series for the first time since 2021 as the Wildcats head back to Omaha,

Four years later he watched “every pitch” of the 2016 World Series, including all of the painful moments that were those two losses to Coastal Carolina in the championship series. It did not sit well with the 12-year-old who would go on to be one of the best players in UA history.