Beavers Win!

College baseball is dominated by teams in sunny states, for good reason. It's played from January to June. Not many guys clamor to spend four Marches playing ball in cold, rainy Oregon and Washington. So recruiting top talent is very hard. The weather, we'd have thought, provides an insurmountable obstacle to winning a college baseball championship. Evidently that's not the case.

The Northwest's own Oregon State Beavers won the NCAA baseball championship last night.

This is amazing.

With this win (and impending climate change) maybe the Northwest will become a hotbed of collegiate hardball!

Probably not...and the Beavers seem to realize the magnitude of their accomplishment. Pitcher Kevin Gunderson provided the quote of the century when asked how he and his teammates will celebrate the championship:

"We're going to live it up," Gunderson said, "until we can't live it up no more."