2026 Hall of Fame Profile – 2010 National Champion Baseball Team – South Carolina Athletics

South Carolina baseball has a long tradition of excellence which includes 11 College World Series appearances as well as four national runner-up finishes, but it was the 2010 team, led by Coach Ray Tanner, which broke through to win its first national championship. Whit Merrifield’s RBI single to right field in the bottom of the 11th inning of game two of the championship series against UCLA scored Scott Wingo for the game-winning run to cap Carolina’s first title. The 2010 and 2011 squads are part of the 2026 USC Association of Lettermen’s Athletics Hall of Fame class. “We don’t win the 2010 World Series if we didn’t have so many players contribute,” Tanner said. “You can’t have two or three guys make the all-tournament team and win it. So many players stepped up at different times. It was really unique.” “I get asked about the hit a little less now that I’m getting older,” Merrifield said. “It becomes more of a conversation now when I do get asked about it. That makes it fun to dive into it a little bit more than maybe I would have before. It’s fun to reminisce and take it back to that whole sequence
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