A weekend full of super regional action is in full swing across college baseball, and Sunday saw more than half of the College World Series bracket take shape. Arizona completed a stunning series comeback to eliminate No. 5 North Carolina from the NCAA Tournament, climbing back from an 18-2 Friday defeat to take the next two games and clinch a spot in Omaha. Louisville, No. 15 UCLA, No. 3 Arkansas, No. 6 LSU and No. 8 Oregon State are all CWS-bound, too, after they closed their weekends in victorious fashion.
Super regionals will continue into Monday as Murray State forced a decisive Game 3 in its series with Duke. The Cinderella squad routed the Blue Devils in a 19-9 thumping to draw even in the Durham Super Regional, and the Racers are now a win away from their first CWS appearance in program history.
Here is a more detailed look at each of the eight super regionals, complete with scores, schedules, viewing information and series recaps:
Louisville
Game 1 (Friday): Louisville 8, Miami 1
Game 2 (Saturday): Miami 9, Louisville 6
Game 3 (Sunday): Louisville 3, Miami 2
Miami took the early lead in Game 3 with a two-run shot in the third inning, but it was all Louisville from that point forward. A two-run fourth was a quick answer for the Cardinals, and Eddie King Jr. drove in the winning run with an RBI double in the seventh. King remained blistering hot at the dish with another three-hit performance, giving him multiple knocks in six of his last seven games and helping Louisville return to Omaha for the sixth time under coach Dan McDonnell.
Chapel Hill
Game 1 (Friday): North Carolina 18, Arizona 2
Game 2 (Saturday): Arizona 10, North Carolina 8
Game 3 (Sunday): Arizona 4, North Carolina 3
Arizona won consecutive games in the face of elimination to stun the North Carolina faithful at The Bosh and reach the CWS for the first time in the Chip Hale era. The Wildcats got after freshman standout Ryan Lynch early with a run in the second frame, the Tar Heels responded an inning later with a three-spot and after Lynch settled in. Arizona got the last laugh with three of their own in the eighth. An error brought in the first of those runs, and touted MLB Draft prospect Mason White plated the tying and winning runs with a single.
Durham
Game 1 (Saturday): Duke 7, Murray State 4
Game 2 (Sunday): Murray State 19, Duke 9
Game 3 (Monday): Murray State at Duke, 7 p.m. | ESPN
The offenses combined to post six crooked-number innings, and it was the Murray State bats that did the most damage in a Sunday shootout in Durham. Things went off the rails for the host Blue Devils when the Racers rallied for nine runs in the seventh inning, which included a pair of two-run jacks from Dan Tauken and Conner Cunningham. Duke committed three errors on the day, but the Racers earned all but one of their 19 runs as they racked up 17 hits in an offensive clinic. A decisive Game 3 is on tap for Monday.
Baton Rouge
Game 1 (Saturday): LSU 16, West Virginia 9
Game 2 (Sunday): LSU 12, West Virginia 5
LSU made quick work of West Virginia and punched its ticket to the College World Series with a 12-5 win in Game 2 on Sunday night. After putting up 16 runs on Saturday, the Tigers picked up right where they left off by jumping out to 6-0 lead after just two innings. The Mountaineers fought back and closed the gap to 6-4 in the bottom of the fifth, but LSU responded with a six-run seventh to completely seize control. Steven Milam and Jake Brown knocked in four runs apiece for the Tigers, including Brown’s two run homer to cap off the seventh.
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Auburn
Game 1 (Friday): Coastal Carolina 7, Auburn 6
Game 2 (Saturday): Coastal Carolina 4, Auburn 1
Caden Bodine’s solo homer in the top of the 10th helped the Chanticleers take Game 1 of the series against the SEC favorite. Coastal built a 6-2 lead after four innings before Auburn knotted the score in the bottom of the seventh via Eric Snow’s round-tripper to left field.
Coastal advanced to the CWS for the first time since 2016 after taking care of business on Saturday. Trailing 1-0 entering the bottom of the seventh, Walker Mitchell jumpstarted Coastal’s comeback with an RBI single to left center. Coastal tacked on two more runs that inning before Mitchell provided an insurance run with another RBI single in the bottom of the eighth.
Fayetteville
Game 1 (Saturday): Arkansas 4, Tennessee 3
Game 2 (Sunday): Arkansas 11, Tennessee 4
In Game 2, the Razorbacks broke things open in the fourth when Logan Maxwell launched a grand slam off Tennessee reliever AJ Russell, scoring an inherited runner from Volunteers ace Liam Doyle. Arkansas had the projected first-rounder’s number this year and tagged him for eight runs in their regular-season matchup in addition to the three on Sunday before they chased him from the mound. Tennessee pitchers walked in a pair of insurance runs in the seventh inning, and their offense had very few answers in the second game of the sweep. Arkansas is the first SEC team into the CWS out of the record 13 that made the tournament.
Los Angeles
Game 1 (Saturday): UCLA 5, UTSA 2
Game 2 (Sunday): UCLA 7, UTSA 0
Pitching was, uncharacteristically, a bit of a struggle for UCLA all year. John Savage got the best out of his arms this weekend, though, as the Bruins tossed a shutout to cap off a two-game sweep of hard-hitting UTSA. Landon Stump enjoyed one of his best outings of the year, although he did not go deep enough into the contest to qualify for the win. The Big Ten newcomers are off to Omaha in search of the second national championship in school history.
Corvallis
Game 1 (Friday): Oregon State 5, Florida State 4
Game 2 (Saturday): Florida State 3, Oregon State 1
Game 3 (Sunday): Oregon State 14, Florida State 10
The Beavers rallied from a 4-1 deficit with three runs in the bottom of the ninth and a walk-off hit in the 10th inning to shock the Seminoles in Game 1, but the Seminoles responded in Game 2 on Saturday to set up a winner-take-all Game 3 with a trip to Omaha on the line.
This time, Oregon State’s bats came out on fire with seven runs in the first inning and another six in the third. And after adding another in the fourth, OSU’s lead ballooned to 14-4. FSU did its best to chip away, but the early lead the Beavers built up was ultimately too much to overcome in an eventual 14-10 final.
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