LSU Tigers College World Series Champions, Framed Newspaper Reprint, Sunday Advocate, June 9, 1991, LSU stops Wichita deals State for CWS title

deals A Framed Newspaper Reprint: The June 9, 1991, headline of the Baton Rouge Sunday Advocate heralds LSU's baseball CWS title: CHAMPIONS, LSU stops Wichita State for CWS title. Cordani and Rios came through with the big hits that helped get the LSU Tigers over the hump in a 6-3 victory over Wichita State in the championship game of the College World Series. The win gave LSU, which had made five trips to the CWS under Coach Skip Bertman, its first national title.

The Tigers had not won more than two games in any of their four previous trips to the baseball CWS under Bertman.

LSU completed a magnificent 1991 season with a 55-18 record as the Tigers captured their first baseball national title and the19th overall national championship for the school.

The Tigers became the first team since Miami (Fla.) in 1982 to win the national title without a loss in the NCAA Tournament; LSU won eight consecutive games in the tournament, including four in the South Regional and four in the College World Series. As a team, the Tigers set a College World Series record by averaging 12 runs per game.

LSU equaled the baseball College World Series mark for most home runs with nine, tying the record set by Arizona State in 1981.

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