Four C-USA Umpires to Work College World Series

Although East Carolina and Tulane fell short in the NCAA Super Regionals last weekend, Conference USA will still be well represented at the 58th annual College World Series when it gets underway on Friday in Omaha. Four of the eight umpires that have been selected to work the CWS work in Conference USA. Ken Gracner, Scott Graham, Gus Rodriguez and David Rogers are the four men in blue hailing from C-USA.

Graham and Rodriguez will each be working their third College World Series’. Graham, a native of West Chester, Pa., worked in Omaha in 1996 and 2000. He has been a Division I Super Regional umpire for five consecutive seasons. Rodriguez, who hails from Sunnyvale, Calif., helped call the 1997 and 2001 CWS and has also worked five straight NCAA Super Regionals.

Gracner and Rogers will be making their Omaha debuts this weekend. Gracner, a resident of St. Louis, has worked NCAA Regionals on a regular basis since 1989 and earned Super Regional assignments in each of the past two years. Rogers lives in Houston and was the crew chief at the Conference USA Tournament in that city last month. He has worked Super Regionals for each of the last three years and regionals since 1999.