The University of Arizona baseball team (44-19) secured two of three games from the No. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Chapel Hill Super Regional from June 7-9, punching its ticket to the College World Series for the first time since 2021 as the Wildcats head back to Omaha,

The Arizona Wildcats (43-19) defeated the North Carolina Tar Heels in the second game of the Chapel Hill Super Regional at North Carolina on June 7.

It was 29 years ago Monday that Chip Hale won a College World Series title with Arizona as a player. June 9 also happens to be the birthday of his wife, Judi, but she wasn’t able to take the trip to Omaha to support her school and her future husband back in 1986.