Super sophomores

For Boston College, the goal is simple: Get to Omaha.

That’s easier said than done, though, for a program that’s only made the NCAA Tournament eight times since 1949. It takes a special culture over an extended period of time for a team with that kind of track record to break the stigma and separate itself from its history. Ahead of coach Mike Gambino’s 11th season at the helm, the Eagles’ process of finding and developing uber-competitive players with those intangibles is paying dividends in outfielder Sal Frelick, infielder Cody Morissette and righthander Mason Pelio.

BC’s three standout third-year sophomores were all voted Preseason All-Americans by major league scouting directors—Frelick and Morissette on the second team and Pelio on the third. They all project to be selected in the first two rounds of the draft in July, but that