Road To Omaha: Won Coral Gables regional: beat Bethune-Cookman 10-5; beat Florida Atlantic 1-0; lost to Florida 15-5; beat Florida 13-10. Won Coral Gables super regional: beat North Carolina St. 10-9; beat North Carolina St. 10-5 in 11 innings.
2003 record vs. CWS teams: 0-0.
Last CWS appearance: 2001.
All-time record in CWS: 43-30 (19 appearances).
Players to Watch: SS Ryan Braun (.374, 17, 74), 1B Jim Burt Jr. (.296, 10, 39), LHP Brandon Camardese (9-1, 4.95), LHP J.D. Cockroft (11-2, 2.20), OF Danny Figueroa (.332, 40 SBs), RHP George Huguet (3-2, 1.88, eight saves), 3B Adam Ricks (.338, 54 RBIs).
Short Hops: Hurricanes won CWS titles in 1982, '85, '99 and 2001. ... Won national championship in last two trips to Omaha. ... Burt, Huguet, Cockroft and LHP Andrew Cohn are only holdovers from 2001 championship team, but Cockroft wasn't on postseason roster. ... Morris has led Hurricanes to CWS in eight of 10 seasons. ... Offense is averaging 8.83 runs per game -- eighth in country. ... Braun, who broke Pat Burrell's school freshman record for RBIs, hit game-winning walkoff homer in first game of super regionals vs. North Carolina State. ... RHP Shawn Valdes-Fauli is 3-0 with 1.64 ERA in postseason. ... Huguet missed regionals with broken right hand, but came back in super regionals. ... Burt is son of former NFL defensive lineman Jim Burt.
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