LOOKING BACK: 2001 Miami Baseball CWS Championship Run
April 5, 2011
On Saturday, April 9, the University of Miami will honor the 10-year anniversary of the 2001 NCAA College World Series Baseball Championship Team. Throughout the week leading up to Saturday’s game against NC State (7 p.m.) and the tribute to that 2001 UM team, HurricaneSports.com will relive each of the Hurricanes’ four CWS games with recaps, box scores, notes and more.
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Box Score | Photo Gallery | Postgame Notes 
By DOUG ALDEN OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Danny Matienzo hit a pair of homers and drove in six runs as Miami beat Tennessee 21-13 Saturday night in a record-setting game that completed the first round of the College World Series on June 9. The teams combined to set CWS records for hits (41), wild pitches (7), and the time of play. A few thousand of the game-time crowd of 23,994 stuck around to see Charlton Jimerson catch Justin Parker’s fly ball in center field to end the 4-hour, 21-minute game, which broke the day-old record set by Stanford and Tulane by three minutes. The Hurricanes (50-12) will play Southern California on Monday night in a matchup of two of the last three national champions. Southern Cal won the title in 1998. Miami won in 1999. Earlier Saturday, the Trojans beat Georgia 11-5. Jimerson and Kevin Brown also homered for Miami, which had never scored more than 17 runs in a CWS game in 18 previous trips to Omaha. Jeff Christensen, Kris Bennett and Brandon Hopkins homered for the Volunteers, who will play Georgia in Monday’s early game. Wyatt Allen (9-3) didn’t make it out of the second inning and took the loss. Miami starter Tom Farmer (14-2) lasted five innings. But the Hurricanes’ bullpen nearly blew the game after cruising into the sixth inning with a 12-4 lead. Tennessee (46-19) scored six runs in the sixth. Kris Bennett highlighted the surge with a three-run homer that made it 12-8. It could have been a grand slam, but on the play before Bennett’s homer, Chris Burke was thrown out at home by right fielder Kevin Mannix. Bennett followed with a homer to left, his first since April 11, and the Vols got a bonus when Christensen struck out, but reached on a wild pitch. Christensen, who scored Tennessee’s first run with a solo homer in the fourth, advanced to third on Javi Herrera’s single and scored on an error to make it 12-9. Adam Smith singled to score Herrera. Miami countered in the bottom of the inning with its own six-run rally. The Hurricanes scored two runs on a two-out single to center by Matienzo for a 17-10 lead. Matienzo, who hit a two-run homer during the Hurricanes’ seven-run second, also had an RBI sacrifice fly in Miami’s three-run fifth. Tennessee got two more runs in the seventh on Hopkins’ homer, and one more in the eighth to close within 18-13. The Hurricanes scored seven runs in the second on just four hits, including Matienzo’s homer. Allen threw two wild pitches, walked two and hit a batter as Miami sent 11 to the plate. Allen allowed eight runs, all earned, on seven hits in 1 2-3 innings. Long Beach State and Arizona State held the previous mark of six wild pitches in a 1998 game. That mark fell in the sixth when Tennessee’s Matt Samuels threw one in the dirt and Mike DiRosa went to third – for the third time on a wild pitch. The previous record for hits in a game was 39, set by USC and Arizona State in the 1998 title game. The 34 runs were one shy of the record Arizona State and Oklahoma State set in 1984. A total of 12 pitchers were used in the game, tying the record set by Miami and Southern California in 1995. University of Miami Postgame Notes: Winning Ways Hitting Machine Matienzo has Career Day Scoring early and often Lots of Pitchers Used Leading off in Style |
