June 3, 2007
NCAA Nashville Regional
Final: Vanderbilt 11 Austin Peay 5
Vanderbilt
-Ryan Flaherty extended his hitting streak to 33 games, which breaks Warner Jones school record for consecutive games with a hit (Jones streak was set over two seasons 2003-2004)
-Flaherty’s hitting streak ranks tied for 2nd all time in a season by an SEC player (Todd Walker, LSU 1993)
-Matt Meingasner’s hit his second home run of the regional
-Pedro Alvarez extended his hitting streak to 24 games
-Ryan Flaherty hit his fourth home run of the season
-Improved its home record to 33-3
-9-0 against Austin Peay under Tim Corbin
-4-0 against Austin Peay this season
-Dominic De La Osa joins Rutgers SS Todd Frazier and Oklahoma State OF Corey Brown as the only players in the country with at least 20 home runs and 20 stolen bases
-Dominic De La Osa ranks 10th all time in career home runs by a Commodore with 36
-Advances to the regional championship for the second straight season
-Brad French sets a new team record for hit by pitches in a game with two (several players with 1)
-Dominic De La Osa becomes the first Vanderbilt player to have 20 stolen bases since Mike Baxter stole 26 in 2005
-Dominic De La Osa becomes the second player in school history to hit 20 home runs in a season Pedro Alvarez hit 22 in 2006)
-Tim Corbin is three wins away from 200 career victories (all at Vanderbilt)
-Ryan Flaherty’s five hits sets a new team record for hits in the NCAA tournament (previous record holder was Worth Scott with 4 vs. Texas 6/12/04)
-David Macias ties team record for at bats in an NCAA tournament game, 6, held by Bill Hardin, Ted Shipley, and Robert Henderson vs NC State (5/26/73)
-Ty Davis set a new career high in strikeouts with 8 (previous high was 7 most recently vs. Florida 4/28/07)
-Ties team record for most runs in a NCAA tournament game (11 vs Princeton 6/5/04)
-17 hits is a new team record for hits in an NCAA game (previous high was 15 vs Princeton 6/5/04)
-Ty Davis is 3-0 this season
-Ryan Flaherty had his 9th game of the season with 3 or more hits
-Ryan Flaherty joins Alex Feinberg as the only other Commodore to go 5-5 in a game this year (Feinberg was 5-5 on 5/6/07 vs Georgia)
-Ryan Flaherty and Pedro Alvarez each had their 20th multiple RBI games of the season
-Ryan Flaherty now has 100 hits on the season
-Pedro Alvarez has 67 RBI (5th most by a Commodore in NCAA history)
-Pedro Alvarez set a new school record with 74 runs scored in a season (previous record was 72 by Ryan Klosterman in 2004)
-Pedro Alvarez recorded his 104 hit, which ranks 2nd in school history (7 behind Warner Jones 11 in 2004)
-Flaherty and Alvarez have 204 hits combined; breaks the record of 202 set by Warner Jones and Ryan Klosterman (202)
-Flaherty and Alvarez are the first two Commodore to have 100 hits in the same season (Warner Jones is the only other player in school history with more than 100 hits in a season)
Austin Peay
-Last win against Vanderbilt was in 2002 (5-0)
-Tyler Farrar has a hit in each game of the tournament including home runs in each game against Vanderbilt
-Austin Peay has lost 9 straight game to Vanderbilt
-Austin Peay had 6 doubles which ties a season high set 4/28/07 against UT Martin
-Most runs scored vs. Vandy since winning 5-0 in 2002
-J.B. Gilbert had 5 hits in the regional; all of them were doubles