Texas A&M, OU, Texas advance; TCU staves off elimination vs. Oral Roberts

Texas A&M 9, Louisiana-Lafayette 6

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Austin Bost and Kole Kaler hit late residence runs to rally No. 5 total seed Texas A&M to a 9-6 win over Louisiana-Lafayette within the semifinals of the College Station Regional on Saturday night time.

After scoring 4 runs within the first inning the Aggies fell behind 6-4. Troy Claunch had an RBI double and Brett Minnich adopted with a run-scoring single to tug the Aggies even within the seventh.

Jack Moss opened the eighth with a single earlier than Bost blasted his tenth residence run over the left-field wall. Kaler added a two-out solo shot, his third, within the ninth.

Texas A&M (39-18) strikes into the Sunday night time championship sport towards the survivor of the Louisiana-Lafayette-TCU sport earlier within the day.

Jacob Palisch (5-3) pitched three scoreless innings in reduction to get the win. Brad Rudis went 1 2/3 for his third save.

Moss had 4 hits for the Aggies and Minnich had three with three RBIs.

Carson Roccaforte had three hits and scored three runs for the Rajin’ Cajuns (37-22) and Heath Hood drove in 4 runs.

Texas 5, Louisiana Tech 2

AUSTIN, Texas — Skyler Messinger’s RBI double capped a three-run backside of the seventh inning and No. 9 total seed Texas went on to beat Louisiana Tech 5-2 on Saturday within the Austin Regional.

Texas (44-19) advances to the title sport on Sunday. The Longhorns will play the winner of Sunday morning’s elimination sport between Louisiana Tech (43-20) and Air Force. A loss by the Longhorns would pressure a Monday finale.

Dylan Campbell’s residence run within the second gave Texas a 1-0 lead. The Bulldogs pulled even within the fourth on a RBI single by Wade Elliott.

Louisiana Tech acquired inside 4-2 within the eighth on Philip Matulia’s RBI floor out, however Trey Faltine led off with a double within the Longhorns’ half of the eighth and scored on a Mitchell Daly sacrifice fly to finish the scoring.

Tristan Stevens (6-6) picked up the win for Texas with 3 2/3 innings of reduction. He allowed one run on 4 hits, hanging out 5. Starter Lucas Gordon went the primary 5 1/3 innings, yielding one run whereas scattering 9 hits.

Kyle Crigger (6-3) pitched the seventh and took the loss for the Bulldogs.

Oklahoma 9, Florida 4

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Jimmy Crooks hit two of Oklahoma’s 4 residence runs and the No. 2 seed Sooners beat top-seeded Florida 9-4 on Saturday night time to advance to the championship of the Gainesville Regional.

Oklahoma (39-20) performs Sunday towards the winner of a loser-out sport between the host Gators and No. 4 seed Central Michigan. Florida, the No. 13 nationwide seed, beat the Broncos 7-3 Friday to ship them to the loser’s bracket.

Ty Evans and Jac Caglianone every hit a house run within the backside of the second to present Florida (40-23) a 2-0 lead. Mac Guscette added a solo shot within the seventh.

Peyton Graham hit a two-run residence run and Blake Robertson adopted with a solo shot within the prime of the third to make it 3-2 and the Sooners led the remainder of the way in which.

Crooks completed 3-for-5 with a double and three RBIs and David Sandlin (8-3) gave up three runs on 5 hits and a stroll with six strikeouts over 6 innings for Oklahoma.

TCU 3, Oral Roberts 1

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Brayden Taylor and Kurtis Byrne homered on consecutive pitches within the sixth inning and TCU stayed alive within the College Station Regional with a 3-1 win over Oral Roberts on Saturday.

Taylor homered to proper discipline on a 3-1 pitch from Isaac Coffey (7-6) with two down within the sixth to interrupt a 1-1 tie. Byrne adopted with a drive down the left-field line. TCU solely had 5 hits.

That was sufficient as 5 Horned Frogs pitchers scattered seven singles and 5 walks, hanging out 11. Caleb Bolden (5-2) picked up the win and Garrett Wright went the ultimate 2 2/3 innings for his fifth save.

The Horned Frogs (37-21) face the loser of Saturday’s late sport between Texas A&M and Louisiana in one other elimination sport on Sunday.

TCU took a 1-0 lead within the third inning on an RBI double by Tommy Sacco.

A pair of two-out singles and a stroll within the fifth ended the day for Horned Frogs starter Marcelo Perez. Bolden entered and threw a wild pitch for the one run for Oral Roberts (38-20).

Jake McMurray and Mac McCroskey each had two hits for the Golden Eagles.

Arkansas 20, Oklahoma State 12

Five of the highest eight seeds have been unbeaten via two days of an NCAA baseball event marked by potent offenses and few surprises till Arkansas staged a dramatic comeback towards No. 7 Oklahoma State on Saturday night time.

No. 1 Tennessee, No. 4 Virginia Tech, No. 5 Texas A&M and No. 8 East Carolina superior to regional finals, and No. 6 Miami can clinch a spot in its weather-delayed regional with a win Sunday. Top-eight seeds that win regionals keep at residence for the best-of-three tremendous regionals subsequent week.

No. 2 Stanford and No. 3 Oregon performed late video games Saturday night time.

Arkansas was down 10-5 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, earlier than exploding for 15 runs over the ultimate three innings and beating the Cowboys 20-12. Oklahoma State had been 32-2 when taking a lead into the seventh.

Jalen Battles’ grand slam highlighted an eight-run eighth and was one of many Razorbacks’ seven homers.

Five groups scored a minimum of 20 runs Saturday, and one or each groups scored in double digits in 14 of the 30 video games.

Tennessee (55-7) set a program document for wins in a season with its 12-7 victory over Campbell. The Volunteers homered 4 occasions to extend their nation-leading complete to 150, most by any group since 1998 and sixth all-time.

Virginia Tech beat Columbia 24-4, and its 39 runs in two video games is an Atlantic Coast Conference postseason document. Texas A&M beat Louisiana 9-6 and is 2-0 in a regional for the primary time since 2016.

Miami opened its regional with an 11-6 win over Canisius. Yohandy Morales grew to become the primary Miami participant to homer thrice in a sport since 2015, and he completed 4 for 4 with 5 RBIs.

East Carolina beat Virginia 4-2 to increase its nation-best and program-record win streak to twenty video games.

Three No. 3 regional seeds beat hosts to succeed in finals. Michigan continued its late-season surge with a 7-3 victory over Louisville. VCU beat North Carolina 4-3 with Connor Hujsak homering twice for a second straight sport. Connecticut defeated Maryland 10-5.

Air Force 5, Dallas Baptist 1

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AUSTIN, Texas — Sam Kulasingam and Paul Skenes hit residence runs in a four-run third inning, Doyle Gehring pitched seven sturdy innings and the Air Force Academy defeated Dallas Baptist 5-1 on Saturday in an elimination sport of the Austin Regional.

Kulasingam’s leadoff residence run within the third put the Falcons up 2-0. Skenes, the Mountain West co-Pitcher of the Year, had a two-run shot after Blake Covin singled. Jay Thomason plated one other run when his single drove in Jake Greiving.

That was loads for Gehring, who restricted the Huskies to 3 hits and a seventh-inning run. He struck out seven and walked two.

Two of the three hits for Dallas Baptist (34-24-1) got here within the seventh with Cole Moore scoring on Luke Heefner’s sacrifice fly.

Air Force (31-28) performs once more on Sunday towards the loser of Louisiana Tech and Texas.

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