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The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
PHILADELPHIA — Kevin Gausman had it all planned out. “What would really be cool,” he told reporters back in 2012, “is if Aaron Nola pitches Friday and wins. Then I could pitch us to Omaha. That would be really cool.” Gausman was a college sophomore then; Nola a freshman. And yes, it would have been exceedingly cool for the young right-handers to steer heavily-favored LSU through the best-of-three NCAA Super Regional and into the College World Series. Except along came Stony Brook (led by Lancaster’s Travis Jankowski) to author an upset that still stings like a wasp in Baton Rouge, La. The pitc…