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Roundup: Gamecocks muzzled again
By ERIC OLSON
Associated Press Writer
Saturday's CWS Capsules
Fullerton 2,
South Carolina 0
OMAHA Jason Windsor pitched
a three-hitter and struck out a career-high 14 to lead Cal State Fullerton
to a 2-0 victory over South Carolina in the College World Series on
Saturday.
Windsor (12-4) won his 11th
straight start and ran his consecutive scoreless innings streak to 24. He
has given up just one run in 32 innings (0.28 ERA) in the NCAA tournament,
including the eight shutout innings he tossed in a super regional win over
Tulane last Saturday.
"I'm just glad you and America
got to see what we've been seeing for two years," Fullerton coach George
Horton said.
Fullerton (43-21) will play
Miami on Monday. The Hurricanes (50-11) beat LSU 9-5 later on Saturday.
LSU (46-18) will face South
Carolina (50-16) in an elimination game.
Windsor pitched out of trouble
three times, leaving runners at third base in the second and fifth innings
and getting out of a bases-loaded jam in the seventh by striking out Steven
Tolleson for the third time in the game.
The 6-foot-2, 220-pound
right-hander, a third-round draft pick by the Oakland Athletics, pitched his
third shutout of the season.
"I didn't have real good
control of my fastball, but it came around in the second or third inning,"
Windsor said. "I just kept working to get to the next pitch, and finally
things smoothed out and my fastball came back."
South Carolina hadn't been
shut out in 67 games, since losing 8-0 in to Stanford in last year's CWS.
"Jason Windsor completely
dominated the game. He just overmatched us," Gamecocks coach Ray Tanner
said. "We had a couple opportunities but weren't able to cash in. He's just
too good."
It was the third time in six
games that Fullerton has held its opponent scoreless. The Titans have won 28
of their last 33 games after starting the season 15-16.
South Carolina starter Matt
Campbell (10-5), a first-round draft pick of the Kansas City Royals, allowed
four hits but walked a career-high eight in 5 2/3 innings.
Miami 9, LSU 5
OMAHA In the late
game, Cesar Carrillo settled down after two shaky innings and held LSU to
two hits over his last six innings, and Adam Ricks' two-run homer helped
Miami beat the Tigers 9-5.
Carrillo (12-0) gave up five
runs on five hits, two walks and a hit batter in the first two innings, then
settled down to retire 19 of 23 batters and lead the Hurricanes to their
13th straight victory.
It was the first meeting of
the traditional powers since LSU's Warren Morris hit his home run in the
bottom of the ninth inning of the 1996 CWS championship game.
"I knew there was tremendous
pressure trying to beat them, with the big rivalry between us," Carrillo
said.
The Hurricanes broke a 5-all
tie when Erick San Pedro doubled with two outs in the fifth and scored on
Gaby Sanchez's second RBI single of the game.
Jon Jay hit a run-scoring
triple in the sixth before Ricks connected off Justin Determann (6-5) for
his 11th home run, which barely cleared the wall in left-center field.
The Tigers strung together
three straight hits off Carrillo to open the game.
"We had to tack a lot early
because they were going to hang with him as long as they could because he
does get better, and he did," LSU coach Smoke Laval said.
J.C. Holt led off with a
ground-rule double and scored on Ryan Patterson's single. Jon Zenrigue
followed with a sacrifice fly and Ivan Naccarata with a run-scoring single.
Miami tied it at 3 in the
bottom of the first on Ryan Braun's two-run homer and a Sanchez single.
The Hurricanes are now 16-0 in
games in which Carrillo was the starter and 19-0 when he makes an
appearance.
"We got some OK swings, but we
were going against a pitcher who doesn't like to lose a lot," Laval said.
"He proved his point today."
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The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be
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02/23/2007 10:37:26 AM
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