Game Notes

June 1, 2003

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NCAA BASEBALL REGIONAL (at Stanford, CA)
Game 6 (Championship Game) - Stanford 19, Richmond 6

Stanford

Stanford won its fifth straight NCAA Regional and 15th overall to advance to an NCAA Super Regional for the fifth straight year

Stanford will play Long Beach State in the NCAA Super Regional either June 6-8 (Friday-Sunday) or June 7-9 (Saturday-Monday) ... sites and times of all NCAA Super Regionals will be announced on Monday, June 2

The 19 runs scored by Stanford were tied for its most ever in an NCAA Regional game ... the Cardinal previously scored 19 runs in an NCAA Regional game once versus Minnesota in a 19-1 win at Sunken Diamond on May 22, 1998

Stanford has won 16 of its last 17 games overall

Stanford has won nine straight NCAA Regional games at Sunken Diamond (May 26, 2001 - June 1, 2003) since its last defeat, a 4-3 loss to Texas on May 26, 2001

Regional MVP Ryan Garko was 3-for-5 with two homers, four runs scored and five RBI

Garko now has 18 homers and 87 RBI on the season, ranking

Ryan Garko has updated season numbers of a .418 batting average, 18 homers and 87 RBI

Garko currently ranks second on Stanford's single-season RBI list, just five behind the 92 runs driven in by single-season record holder Rick Lundblade in 1985

Garko is attempting to become just the sixth player in Stanford history to hit .400 or better and the first since David McCarty batted .420 in 1991

Stanford has updated all-time records of 61-21 in NCAA Regionals and 106-51 in the NCAA Tournament

Sam Fuld extended his career-high hit streak to 17 games with a single in the top of the eighth inning

Brian Hall extended his career-high hit streak to 11 games

Danny Putnam hit his first career grandslam in the top of the seventh

Richmond

Richmond finished the season with a record of 48-15

Over the last two seasons, Richmond has posted a 101-28 record with consecutive trips to the NCAA Regionals

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