Rays' Taylor Motter joins in the celebration as Coastal Carolina wins College World Series

Tom Gatto

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Never forget where you came from.

Rays rookie infielder Taylor Motter took himself back to Conway, S.C., on Thursday as he watched Coastal Carolina win the College World Series on the Tropicana Field Jumbotron.

It looks like Motter — who had a lot less hair while playing at Coastal  from 2009-11 — was waiting for a dogpile of his own after the Chanticleers beat Arizona in Game 3 of the finals. Nope. Here's a ball, rook; get back to work.

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Motter later took time to salute the Chants for securing the first NCAA championship in school history.

Tom Gatto

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.