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'A storybook ending' - Remembering David Ross' home run, 20 years later

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1997 NCAA Regional

By Jeff Shearer
AuburnTigers.com

AUBURN, Ala. - As vividly as those who were there remember the epic home run that ensued, it's the previous pitch - the one on which nearly everyone in Tallahassee thought David Ross struck out - that served to heighten the drama.

Twenty years ago today. May 24, 1997.

Trailing NCAA East Regional host Florida State 7-1 at the seventh-inning stretch, Auburn, the home team, rallied for single runs in the seventh and eighth, but still trailed 7-3 in the bottom of the ninth.