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Wolverines fall short in College World Series as Vanderbilt wins NCAA baseball title

Michigan Public | By John U. Bacon,
Doug Tribou
Published June 27, 2019 at 11:55 AM EDT
The Michigan Wolverines faced the Vanderbilt Commodores in the 2019 College World Series final at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Nebraska. The city hosts the series every year. Michigan's last trip to Omaha was in 1984.
Photo courtesy of HDR Architecture, Inc.
The Michigan Wolverines faced the Vanderbilt Commodores in the 2019 College World Series final at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Nebraska. The city hosts the series every year. Michigan's last trip to Omaha was in 1984.

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The Michigan Wolverines faced the Vanderbilt Commodores in the 2019 College World Series final at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Nebraska. The city hosts the series every year. Michigan's last trip to Omaha was in 1984.
Credit Photo courtesy of HDR Architecture, Inc.
The Michigan Wolverines faced the Vanderbilt Commodores in the 2019 College World Series final at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Nebraska. The city hosts the series every year. Michigan's last trip to Omaha was in 1984.

The University of Michigan baseball team finished its season just short of a national championship. In the deciding game of the College World Series final on Wednesday, Vanderbilt beat the Wolverines 8-2. U of M won Game 1, but lost two straight to the Commodores in Omaha, Nebraska.

Michigan Radio sports commentator John U. Bacon spoke to Morning Edition host Doug Tribou about the series and how U of M's appearance in Omaha bucked a longstanding trend in college baseball.

Michigan last won the national championship in 1962. This was their first trip to Omaha since 1984.

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John U. Bacon
John U. Bacon has worked the better part of two decades as a writer, a public speaker, a radio and TV commentator, and a college teacher.
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Doug Tribou
Doug Tribou joined the Michigan Radio staff as the host of Morning Edition in June 2016. Doug first moved to Michigan in 2015 when he was awarded a Knight-Wallace journalism fellowship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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