Many of their baseball journeys include multiple stops. They were passed over or had to move on. They hail from California to Australia. The common resilience the Trojan baseball team shares has allowed them to deal with the ups and downs this season and win five games in four days to capture the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament.
Being a heavy underdog Friday afternoon against LSU in the Baton Rouge Regional is par for the course for this bunch.
"Adversity creates toughness," said junior DH Ryan Geck, a Long Beach, Calif. native. "Everybody on our team has an interesting story of how they got here and what they went through as a baseball player.