Stanford has come back from an opening round regional loss to win a regional once before in school history (1988) when the Cardinal lost its Northeast Regional (New Britain, Conn.) opener by a score of 5-3 to St. John's (May 27) before coming back to win four straight elimination games to win the regional (Stanford went on to win its second straight and most recent College World Series title that season, winning a total of eight elimination games by adding four CWS elimination victories to its four at the regional)
Stanford has now won at least one postseason game for 11 consecutive seasons with the last time the Cardinal not picking up a postseason victory coming when Stanford dropped two in a row at the NCAA Central Regional (Austin, TX) in 1994
Stanford's updated all-time postseason record is 117-56 (.676), while its all-time regional record improved to 64-24 (.727)
Stanford's win was its first regional victory away from Sunken Diamond since the Cardinal defeated Texas Tech by a score of 6-5 at the Midwest Regional (Wichita, KS) on May 30, 1995
Matt Leva now has a 2-0 career record and a 1.29 ERA in two postseason appearances (both starts)
Matt Manship recorded the 16th save of his career to move into a tie for third on Stanford's all-time list along with Jeff Bruksch (16, 2000-01), while also recording his team-leading fourth save of the season and the second of his career in the postseason
John Mayberry, Jr. tied season-highs with three hits and three RBI, while hitting his third career postseason
Stanford played errorless baseball for the 24th time in 57 games this season to improve its fielding percentage to .978, one point better than the school record of .977 set by the 2001 club
Stanford's pitching staff has an updated 3.82 season ERA as the Cardinal is looking to record an ERA under 4.00 for the fourth time in the last six campaigns
Stanford and Texas-San Antonio played for the first time in school history
Stanford has five players - Jed Lowrie (2B), Chris Lewis (LF/RF), John Mayberry, Jr. (1B), Chris Minaker (SS) and Adam Sorgi (3B) - that have started all 57 of the team's games to this point with Mayberry and Minaker playing every regular season inning at their respective positions