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Huskies didn’t succumb to nerves at College World Series, they succumbed to a lack of key hit

The moment clearly wasn’t too big for Washington. The Huskies played to their strengths, pitching and defense, but they simply couldn’t get the clutch hit they needed,

OMAHA, Neb. – One of the curiosities of this College World Series was to see how Washington, the wide-eyed newcomers in a field of Omaha veterans, would handle what coach Lindsay Meggs referred to earlier in the week as “the biggest baseball circus there is on the planet.”

On Saturday, in an excruciating 1-0 walk-off loss to Mississippi State at TD Ameritrade Park that put them on the brink of elimination, we got the multi-layered answer.