Nearly 18 years ago, Middle Tennessee's baseball team was on top of the world heading into the Ohio Valley Conference Championship game with its record standing at 36-21.
On May, 19, 2000, the Blue Raiders arrived in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, to square off with the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks for the conference title.
With the game tied early, bad weather snuck into the area and umpires suspended play until the following day. Littered with future professionals, MT certainly had as much talent as anyone and was looking for that one break to swing the momentum in their favor the next day.