Stanford’s Mark Appel might be the Andrew Luck of college baseball.
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It has been 20 years since the Arizona Wildcats baseball team hosted an NCAA tournament regional. That’s also the last time the UA won a conference championship.

When the Cats run out onto Hi Corbett Field this weekend to take on the Stanford Cardinal, the home team will have the opportunity to make that first goal seem incomplete without the second one.

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The UA tagged the Beavers with two losses in a bang-bang series.
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The Arizona Wildcats won a baseball series at Oregon State over the weekend. For the second straight week the Cats dropped the opener but rallied to win the final two games.

Taking two of three from a ranked opponent on the road sure looks great on a postseason resume. Yes, the season is long but this the exact time a team wants to be winning games if it hopes to host a regional.

And it’s the exact time Arizona has failed in recent years.

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OSU’s Tony Bryant had a save in last week’s sweep of Cal.
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The Arizona Wildcats baseball team is suddenly scuffling after losing two midweek home games to unranked New Mexico State. The good news is the Pac-12 standings didn’t change with the upsets so the Cats could still end up in first place this week with a series win at Oregon State.

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Nick Johnson’s freshman season wasn’t a slam dunk.
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As soon as your favorite team gets done with this year you start looking toward next year.

For the Arizona Wildcats three key seniors will be replaced by four incoming freshmen. If you look at the recruiting rankings the new players will significantly upgrade the talent on the roster.

After an up-and-down 2012, however, UA fans would be wise to keep next year’s expectations in check.

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Robert Refsnyder was a force stronger than the wind.
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The University of Arizona baseball team only needed one Pac-12 game to run into adversity but the Wildcats recovered to take the weekend series from Washington State.

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