LSU’s ninth-inning comeback eliminates Arkansas in College World Series
Arkansas took a two-run lead in the top of the ninth, but the Razorbacks' season ended in heartbreak in Omaha again.
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Arkansas took a two-run lead in the top of the ninth, but the Razorbacks' season ended in heartbreak in Omaha again.
Arkansas will play SEC rival LSU on Wednesday night and would have to beat the Tigers twice in two days to advance to the best-of-three CWS finals.
Razorback Gage Wood struck out a record 19 batters in the third no-hitter in College World Series history.
LSU’s Kade Anderson limited Arkansas' high-powered offense to three hits and a run in seven-plus innings.
Christian Moore hit a leadoff homer, Dylan Dreiling went deep for the third time in three games and Tennessee won its first national championship in baseball with a 6-5 victory over Texas A&M in Game 3 of the College World Series finals.
The Vols, the nation’s most prolific home-run hitting team in three decades, fell to the Aggies in the College World Series finals opener Saturday night.
Tennessee lost the finals opener Saturday, but hasn’t dropped consecutive games since March 16-17 at Alabama. They hope to become the first No. 1 national seed to win the national title since Miami in 1999.
The 1997 LSU Tigers slugged 188 home runs in 70 games. No team had come close to approaching 188 until this year’s Volunteers, who have 178 in 70 games heading into Game 1 of the best-of-three College World Series finals against Texas A&M.
The Volunteers will play another SEC team, Texas A&M, in the three-game championship series beginning Saturday.
Dylan Dreiling’s single into the left-center gap drove in the go-ahead run in the bottom of the ninth inning as Tennessee rallied to beat Florida State 12-11, capping a night when Christian Moore became the first player in 68 years to hit for the cycle at the College World Series.
Kavares Tears and Reese Chapman homered, Drew Beam limited North Carolina to one hit over five shutout innings, and Tennessee took control of its bracket at the College World Series with a 6-1 win.
The College World Series opens Friday with North Carolina playing Virginia and Florida State facing Tennessee in Bracket 1.
The CWS opens Friday, and for the first time since the event expanded to eight teams in 1950, only two conferences will be represented on the college game’s biggest stage.
The Rebels, with four Shelby-Metro area players, sweep Oklahoma.
Jack Dougherty, normally a reliever, retired 15 batters in a row as the Rebels beat Oklahoma, 10-3. A win Sunday would give Ole Miss its first national baseball title in school history.
Terry Rooker helped launch the careers of four players from his Germantown Giants team.
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