FAYETTEVILLE -- The Arkansas Razorbacks nearly snagged a College World Series championship away from Oregon State last week.
Historians will look at an uncaught foul pop down the right-field line as the moment the championship slipped away in the second game, and that would be accurate. Had any one of three defenders made that catch on a Cadyn Grenier foul pop, the Razorbacks would have celebrated the school's first national championship near their first-base dugout at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Neb.
Instead, the day after the Beavers rallied for a 5-3 victory, the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville had to settle for a runner-up finish, the second in school history and the first since 1979.