UCLA wins CWS title

UCLA completed a special season when the Bruins won their first national championship in baseball on this date in 2013 with an 8-0 shutout at the College World Series over Mississippi State at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Neb.

Nick Vander Tuig limited the powerful Mississippi State lineup to five hits and a walk over eight innings. He improved his record to 14-4. In five CWS games, Bruins pitchers combined for a 0.80 earned-run average, a record low in the aluminum bat era.

Eric Filia had five runs batted in on a sacrifice fly, a sacrifice bunt, a grounder up the middle and two on a single to right field.

“We are not going to hit a bunch of home runs, but we grind out at-bats, work counts, fight off good pitches, hit pitches we can hit,” Filia said. “The whole time that’s what we did, and we did a great job of it.”

Other memorable games and outstanding sports performances on this date:

1926 — Bobby Jones is the first amateur since Harold Hilton in 1897 to win the British Open. Jones finishes with a four-round total of 291 for a two-stroke victory over Al Watrous at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in England. It is Jones’ first of three British Open titles and also the first time an admission fee is charged to the tournament’s spectators.

2012 — Five-time champion Venus Williams loses in the opening round at Wimbledon for the first time since 1997, falling in straight sets 6-1, 6-3 to Elena Vesnina of Russia. Williams, who has trouble establishing her serve, hadn’t lost in the first round at any Grand Slam tournament in 6½ years.