The Louisville baseball program is, improbably, alive to see another day in the College World Series. Facing Arizona in the 0-1 elimination game on their side of the bracket, the Cardinals were able to bounce back after getting heartbroken by Oregon State in their CWS opener,

Zion Rose singled to give Louisville its first lead during a six-run eighth inning and the Cardinals knocked Arizona out of the College World Series with an 8-3 win.

Zion Rose dropped in an opposite field single down the right-field line to drive in Jake Munroe and Eddie King Jr. to give Louisville a 4-3 lead in the eighth inning. Munroe led off the eighth by reaching on an error by Arizona shortstop Mason White. King and Tague Davis followed with consecutive singles, setting up Rose's RBI hit.

The Arizona Wildcats and Louisville Cardinals meet up in Omaha on Sunday with their NCAA Men’s College World Series hopes on the line in the first elimination game of the tournament. Both teams had high hopes coming into the Men’s College World Series, but found themselves on the losing end of a couple of tough battles.

The Wildcats lost the opener of the College World Series in a game full of quirks — a balk, fan interference, hits batsmen, and what Arizona coach Chip Hale called

When Chip Hale looked at the team he and his staff assembled last fall he felt it was one that could get Arizona back to the College World Series. The belief was so strong that T-shirts were made and a banner hung in the clubhouse about the Wildcats’ ‘Chasing Five,

Six conferences and an independent will be represented at the College World Series. None were among the final eight in Omaha a year ago.