The Louisville baseball team used an eight-run fifth inning to pull away from Arizona and pick up a second win in three games at the 2025 Shriners Children’s College Showdown, defeating the Wildcats 13-1.

The second day of the 2025 Shriners Children’s College Showdown kicks off with two teams that landed on this year’s D1Baseball Preseason Top 25 Rankings – Clemson (No. 15) and Arizona (No. 21).

The Phoenix area is a well-known MLB Spring Training hotbed, where baseball diehards get to have an early look at some of the brightest young stars in the professional game once they’ve found a home with a major-league organization.

Arizona coach Jay Johnson remembers the warnings he got when he first was offered to coach the Wildcats.