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Roundup: USC, LSU board SEC express to Omaha
By The Associated Press
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South
Carolina 5, East Carolina 3
COLUMBIA Steven Tolleson hit
a two-run, go-ahead double in the eighth to lead South Carolina to its third
straight trip to the College World Series.
The win by USC means
Southeastern Conference teams will comprise half of the eight-team field in
next week's Omaha championship shootout. Fellow SEC members Arkansas,
Georgia and LSU have also clinched CWS berths.
The Gamecocks (50-15), who
have won 10 straight games and 18 of their last 20, threw their gloves and
helmets in the air and piled on top of each other on the mound. They dumped
water on coach Ray Tanner, who has taken them to six NCAA tournaments in
eight years.
The Pirates (51-13) filed
slowly out of the dugout after falling to 0-4 in super regionals.
East Carolina had a 3-2 lead
in the eighth when coach Randy Mazey put second baseman Trevor Lawhorn on
the mound with a man on first and one out.
Lawhorn, who faced only three
batters all year, struck out the first batter. Then pinch-hitter Ryan
Mahoney slapped a sharp grounder that first baseman Ryan Norwood couldn't
get to, scoring Brenden Winn from second to tie the game at 3.
After Lawhorn (0-1) walked the
next batter, Tolleson doubled and Lawhorn went back to second.
Zac McCamie (7-0) won with two
innings of relief, and Chad Blackwell allowed two runners over the final two
innings to get his 19th save.
LSU 4, Texas A&M 0
BATON ROUGE Will Harris hit
a three-run homer in the top of the ninth to lead LSU past Texas A&M,
sending the Tigers to a second straight College World Series.
LSU (46-17) will make its 13th
overall World Series appearance after sweeping the Aggies in the super
regional.
Texas A&M (42-22) is now 0-6
against LSU in NCAA postseason play.
Harris' home run broke open a
pitchers duel between A&M starter Zach Jackson and LSU's Lane Mestepey.
Jackson (10-7) did not give up
a hit over the first five innings and had only allowed two hits going into
the ninth inning.
Mestepey (7-3) pitched a
five-hitter for LSU, which has won five College World Series titles.
Arizona 4,
Long Beach State 3
LONG BEACH Nick Hundley's
sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 11th inning gave Arizona a 4-3 victory in
an NCAA super regional Sunday over Long Beach State and sent the Wildcats to
the College World Series for the first time in 18 years.
Moises Duran reached and took
second on a throwing error by third baseman Danny Mocny. He went to third on
a wild pitch by Neil Jamison (3-5) before scoring on Hundley's fly to
center.
Long Beach (40-21) rallied to
tie it at 3 on Sean Boatright's run-scoring single off John Meloan with one
out in the ninth. Meloan pitched 8 1/3 innings, giving up three runs on nine
hits. Mark Melancon (6-4) pitched 2 2/3 innings of one-hit relief.
Jeff Van Houten's two-run
single off Long Beach reliever Brian Anderson put Arizona (35-25-1) ahead
3-2 in the seventh.
Anderson replaced left-hander
Jason Vargas, who gave up three runs on seven hits in 6 2/3 innings.
Arizona coach Andy Lopez will
take his third team to Omaha. He previously coached Florida and Pepperdine
to series appearances, winning the 1992 championship with the Waves. He is
one of only eight Division I coaches to take two different schools to Omaha.
Fullerton 10, Tulane 7
FULLERTON Kurt Suzuki
homered and drove in two runs to help Cal State Fullerton advance to the
College World Series.
Ricky Romero (12-4) pitched 8
2/3 innings, giving up two runs in the ninth before yielding to Vinnie
Pestano, who got his first save of the season.
J.R. Crowel (8-3) allowed six
runs, but just three were earned, asTulane (41-21) committed four errors.
P.J. Pilittere and Felipe
Garcia had three hits for the Titans, who will be making their 13th College
World Series appearance. Fullerton will play South Carolina next Saturday.
Miami 3, Florida 1
CORAL GABLES Cesar Carrillo
pitched a four-hitter to give Miami its 21st trip to the College World
Series.
The victory gave Miami a super
regional sweep over the Gators, who have been eliminated by the Hurricanes
three straight seasons.
It will be the third trip to
Omaha in the last four years for Miami (50-11).
Carrillo (11-0) surrendered
his only run in the first inning on Ben Harrison's RBI single. He settled
down after that, holding Florida (43-23) to just two hits the rest of the
way while striking out a career-high nine in his first complete game.
Florida starter Connor
Falkenbach (10-7) cruised until giving up a two-run homer to Richard
Giannotti in the fifth that gave Miami a 2-1 lead.
Miami added an insurance run
when Adam Ricks singled, advanced to third on a sacrifice and a wild pitch
and scored on Jim Burt's sacrifice fly.
The two teams combined for
just 13 hits, a day after posting 15 runs and 26 hits against each other's
aces.
The Hurricanes haven't lost a
postseason tournament at Mark Light Field since the 1990 Atlantic Regional
and improved to 12-3 all time in the postseason against the Gators.
Miami also improved to 8-0 at
home in super regionals.
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The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be
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02/23/2007 10:37:19 AM
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