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Reuters
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LSU, Coastal Carolina bring 'worthy' resumes into title series
June 20 - LSU is seeking its second national Men's College World Series championship in three years and its eighth overall. Coastal Carolina is looking to extend its 26-game winning streak and win its second MCWS title. The No. 6 seed Tigers (51-15) and the No. 13 seed Chanticleers (56-11) are heavyweights that will open their best-of-three championship series Saturday night in Omaha, Neb. "Two worthy opponents in the College World Series," LSU coach Jay Johnson said Friday, adding that Coastal Carolina is "probably the best team that we've played this year." "It will make for excellent baseball," Johnson said. "I think if you're at this point in the NCAA tournament, you've been battle-tested. I don't believe there's anything we have not seen. What I mean by that is high-level pitching, high-level bullpen, high-level defense, offenses with speed, power, hitting skills, know how to play the game, move the offense." Both teams swept through three games to win their brackets and have been off since Wednesday. But Johnson has more flexibility with his starting pitching than Coastal Carolina coach Kevin Schnall as the series gets under way. On Friday, Johnson wouldn't name his starting pitcher for Game 1, but both of his top two starters are available. Ace left-hander Kade Anderson hasn't pitched since last Saturday when he threw seven innings in a 4-1 victory against Arkansas. Freshman right-hander Anthony Eyanson threw just 44 pitches Monday night before rain caused the suspension of a 9-5 victory against UCLA, which was completed Tuesday. Johnson used four pitchers but didn't need Anderson or Eyanson in a 6-5 victory against Arkansas on Wednesday night. Schnall said he will start right-hander Cameron Flukey, who threw four innings in relief, allowing two hits and two runs, in Coastal Carolina's 7-4 opening victory against Arizona on June 13. Riley Eikhoff (7-2) started the opener, throwing 45 pitches, and started and threw 98 pitches in an 11-3 victory against Louisville on Wednesday. "We have extreme confidence in everything that we do on both sides of the ball," Chanticleers catcher Caden Bodine said. "I think at the end of the day we take care of business on our side and just really respect the opponent. But honestly playing Coastal baseball is the way to win." Bodine described "Coastal baseball" as "just playing short game, playing quality at-bats, throwing competitive strikes and just having timely hitting." The Chanticleers have not lost in their two appearances in the MCWS. They swept a super regional at LSU on their way to an undefeated run in the 2016 MCWS. --Field Level Media
Yahoo
3 days ago
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Men's College World Series: Red-hot Coastal Carolina batters Louisville, advances to championship series
Day 6 of the Men's College World Series started with arguably the most dangerous team in Omaha punching its ticket to championship series. Coastal Carolina, now winners of 26 straight games, eliminated Louisville Wednesday afternoon. The Chanticleers used early offensive fireworks and yet another high-stakes pitching clinic to take down the battle-tested Cardinals. Coastal Carolina 11, Louisville 3 Coastal Carolina served up its best first inning of the season on the doorstep of the MCWS Final. The Chanticleers scored six runs in the bottom half of the game-opening frame. Advertisement Even though Louisville challenged what at one point was an eight-run deficit, the initial run support Coastal Carolina provided was more than enough to get the job done. The Chanticleers picked up their 56th, and biggest win, of the year, an 11-3 victory that has them on the verge of their second-ever MCWS title. Louisville trotted out left-hander Colton Hartman to start. The sophomore hadn't pitched in more than a month, and it showed. Command issues, which resulted in back-to-back hit batters, loaded the bases and the offensive clip for the Chanticleers. An opposite-way, two-RBI single from third baseman Walker Mitchell flung open the scoring gates. Louisville head coach Dan McDonnell pulled Hartman for Jake Schweitzer. The right-handed freshman eventually gave the Cardinals much-needed relief, but only after four more Coastal Carolina runs scored. Advertisement Chanticleers first baseman Colby Thorndyke was responsible for three of them as he tattooed a double to right center. Shortstop Ty Dooley capped the surge with a single up the middle to bring home Thorndyke. A climb back into the game was always going to be steep for Louisville, especially against a Coastal Carolina team that entered with a 2.52 ERA during its win streak and just a 3.1 runs per game allowed average during the NCAA Tournament. Chanticleers redshirt senior Riley Eikhoff, making his second start in six days, carried the torch with five scoreless innings to start the day, routinely getting himself out of traffic. Advertisement His outing ended in the top of the sixth, after Coastal Carolina designated hitter Dean Mihos drilled a two-run triple the inning prior to stake his team to an 8-0 lead. The next frame, a double to right center from Louisville first baseman Tague Davis scored one run and chased Eikhoff. He was responsible for two more earned runs, which Cardinals DH Garret Pike and second baseman Kamau Neighbors drove in with singles to make it an 8-3 game. But southpaw Hayden Johnson got the Chanticleers out of a runners-on-the-corners jam, and Louisville never scored again. And then Coastal Carolina immediately countered with two more runs. The second was the byproduct of the Chanticleers' 176th hit-by-pitch of the season, the most in single-season NCAA Division I baseball history. Advertisement Fittingly, Thorndyke polished off his banner day to wrap Coastal Carolina's daylong scoring spree with his fifth RBI, this one on a single to right in the bottom of the eighth. Coastal Carolina will await either LSU or Arkansas in the best-of-three championship series. Coastal Carolina looks the part of a MCWS champion, but the Chanticleers probably won't be winning the Rocco's Jell-O Shot Challenge. It doesn't look like any team, for that matter, will be catching LSU. The Tigers, who set the competition's record with 68,888 Jell-O shots in 2023, are obliterating the other seven fan bases with 20,555 Jell-O shots consumed at Charles Schwab Field this year. Entering the Coastal Carolina-Louisville matinee, no other fan base had downed even 8,000 Jell-O shots. At the time that game kicked off, 48,638 Jell-O shots had been accounted for on the board.
Yahoo
5 days ago
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Men's College World Series: Arkansas' Gage Wood throws no-hitter to eliminate Murray State
Day 4 of the Men's College World Series kicked off with a David-and-Goliath matchup as No. 3 Arkansas defeated unseeded Murray State with some history by Razorbacks right-hander Gage Wood. UCLA and LSU met in a presumably more even clash in the second half of Monday's doubleheader. The two teams provided plenty of thunder in the first inning before weather delayed that game in the fourth inning and will be resumed on Tuesday. Arkansas 3, Murray State 0 Although the Razorbacks' bats were relatively quiet, nine nearly perfect innings from junior starting pitcher Gage Wood on Monday secured the 3-0 Arkansas win. Advertisement Wood was electric, holding off Murray State with just the third no-hitter in MCWS history and the first since 1960. He notched a career-high 19 strikeouts on 119 pitches, completing a game for the first time in his college career. Wood put up seven perfect innings before he hit a batter with a pitch in the eighth. But he stayed strong, notching five more strikeouts to secure the historic no-hitter. Both offenses were quiet at first, with Wood and Racers starting pitcher Isaac Silva both putting up strong performances. But in the third inning, Arkansas finally got on the board. First baseman Reese Robinett kicked things off with a double into the outfield gap and reached home after a pair of singles. Advertisement For most of the game, Silva held off one of the best offenses in the country. He notched seven strikeouts in six innings, allowing six hits and just the one run. But after Silva exited in the seventh inning, replaced by Graham Kelham, the Razorbacks got things going again. Shortstop Wehiwa Aloy hit a key double to knock in one RBI, and then outfielder Logan Maxwell brought in another run off a Murray State error. After the Racers closed out the final two innings without conceding any more runs, it came down to three more outs for Wood to make history. In the first at-bat of the ninth, pinch hitter Nico Bermeo was hit by another pitch from Wood — but the umpires deemed Bermeo had moved into the pitch and was out. Wood then dug in to record two more strikeouts to finish the game. Advertisement "I shouldn't've hit that guy," Wood told ESPN on the postgame broadcast, referring to the hit-by-pitch in the eighth that sullied his bid for a perfect game. Murray State put up a very good fight, but Wood's heroics brought the Racers' run in the MCWS to an end. Next up, the Razorbacks will face the loser of LSU vs. UCLA, which will be played Tuesday night. LSU 5, UCLA 3 [suspended] The Bruins knocked LSU starting pitcher Anthony Eyanson back right away, putting the first five batters in their lineup on base. A Roman Martin double drove in Roch Cholowsky for the game's first run. That was followed by a run-scoring infield single from AJ Salgado and an RBI groundout by Payton Brennan. However, the Tigers answered back decisively in the bottom of the first against UCLA starter Landon Stump. Ethan Frey, Steven Milam and Jake Brown hit consecutive one-out singles, resulting in one run scored. Jared Jones then cleared the bases over the right-center field fence for a three-run homer and a 4-3 lead. The Tigers added another run in the third after Stump walked Frey and Milam to begin the inning. He recovered to strike out Brown and Jones, giving UCLA a chance to keep those runners stranded, But Luis Hernandez followed up with an RBI single to make the score 5-3. Advertisement The two teams took the field for the fourth inning before umpires suspended the game due to rain. After a nearly three-hour weather delay, the decision was made to delay the game until Tuesday at 11 a.m. ET. The game will be played before Oregon State and Louisville with the loser to face Arkansas in the evening. Though LSU fans have to wait another six innings to see if their team will advance in the MCWS, the rain delay allowed Tigers diehards an opportunity to leave the competition even further behind in the Rocco's Jello Shot Challenge. Earlier in the day, LSU alums Paul Skenes and Livvy Dunne updated the board to the delight of Tigers fans packed into Rocco's Pizza and Cantina. Do any of the other seven fan bases competing have a chance to catch LSU's tally of 17,746 as of Monday night? None of the other schools have even reached 10,000 Jell-O shots. Underdog Murray State has maintained its respectable showing at 7,293. Advertisement The record of 68,888, set by LSU in 2023 is still within reach. More weather delays could help, though none of the fans at Charles Schwab Field, viewers on ESPN, nor the players and coaches on either of the affected teams would likely care for that. What will that board look like on Tuesday after three games are played?
Time of India
5 days ago
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- Time of India
2025 NCAA baseball tournament: Men's College World Series schedule, scores, and bracket updates
2025 NCAA baseball tournament: full schedule and results Men's College World Series schedule and scores Live Events Road to Omaha: super regional results Regional round highlights How the NCAA baseball tournament works (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel The 2025 NCAA Division I baseball tournament began with 64 teams in regional play, narrowed to 16 for super regionals, and culminates with the Men's College World Series (MCWS) in Omaha, Nebraska, from June 13–23. The eight remaining teams compete in double-elimination brackets, with the winners advancing to a best-of-three championship times June 13Game 1: Coastal Carolina 7, Arizona 4Game 2: Oregon State 4, Louisville 3Saturday, June 14Game 3: UCLA 6, Murray State 4Game 4: LSU 4, Arkansas 1Sunday, June 15Also read: Zack Wheeler, ace MLB player reveals retirement date: Will he join the Hall of Fame? Game 5: Louisville 8, Arizona 3 (elimination game)Game 6: Coastal Carolina 6, Oregon State 2Monday, June 16Game 7: Arkansas 3, Murray State 0Game 8: UCLA vs. LSU, 7 p.m. | ESPNTuesday, June 17Game 9: Louisville vs. Oregon State, 2 p.m. | ESPNGame 10: Arkansas vs. TBD, 7 p.m. | ESPNWednesday, June 18Game 11: TBD vs. Coastal Carolina, 2 p.m. | ESPNThe MCWS finals begin Saturday, June 21, and conclude by Monday, June 23, if teams advanced to super regionals, with eight securing spots in Omaha:Coastal Carolina swept No. 4 Auburn (7-6, 4-1).Also read: Byron Buxton blasts 479-foot homer, second-longest in MLB this season - WATCH LSU defeated West Virginia (16-9, 12-5).Arizona upset No. 5 North Carolina in three games (2-18, 10-8, 4-3).Oregon State outlasted No. 9 Florida State (5-4, 1-3, 14-10).Murray State edged Duke in three games (4-7, 19-9, 5-4).Arkansas swept No. 14 Tennessee (4-3, 11-4).UCLA dominated UTSA (5-2, 7-0).Louisville defeated Miami (FL) in three games (8-1, 6-9, 3-2).The tournament began with 16 regional sites, each a double-elimination format:Murray State ousted No. 10 Ole Miss (12-11).UTSA stunned No. 2 Texas (7-4).Little Rock pushed No. 6 LSU to a decisive Game 3 before read: MLB Spring Training 2025: Wondering which teams are the strongest? Here are 5 squads to watch out for No. 3 Arkansas, No. 8 Oregon State, and No. 15 UCLA swept their (64 teams): Four-team, double-elimination brackets at 16 campus Regionals (16 teams): Best-of-three series at eight campus College World Series (8 teams): Two double-elimination brackets, followed by a best-of-three final.29 automatic bids (conference champions).35 at-large bids chosen by the NCAA DI Baseball won the 2024 title, becoming the first No. 1 overall seed to win since 1999. LSU (2023) and Ole Miss (2022) are recent champions.
Yahoo
5 days ago
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Arkansas pitcher Gage Wood reduced Murray State to rubble with historic MCWS performance
Murray State was the story of the NCAA baseball tournament this season, becoming just the fourth No. 4 seed to ever reach the Men's College World Series. But the Racers' historic run to Omaha came to an end Monday as they met their match against Arkansas pitcher Gage Wood, who accomplished something even more historic. Advertisement Wood tossed a complete game no-hitter in the Razorbacks' 3-0 elimination game win, striking out 19 Murray State batters on 119 pitches en route to a performance that put him in rare MCWS air. Wood's no-hitter was just the third in MCWS history and the first since 1960. It was also the ninth all-time NCAA tournament no-hitter. Wood very nearly became the first player in the history of the tournament to throw a perfect game, which he carried into the eighth inning until he gave up a hit-by-pitch. That was the only batter Wood didn't retire, though a hit-by-pitch to lead off the ninth was controversially overturned to a strikeout after it was determined the Murray State batter leaned into the pitch. A projected first-round pick in the MLB draft this summer, the performance didn't exactly come out of nowhere. But coming into the game, Wood had pitched just 28.2 innings in his nine starts with a lackluster 5.02 ERA, though he did strike out 50 batters prior to Monday's game. Advertisement Now, his performance will be immortalized as the greatest pitching outing in the modern history of the MCWS. For Murray State, a Cinderella run through the NCAA tournament comes to an end with a 0-2 showing in Omaha. This article originally appeared on For The Win: MCWS: Arkansas pitcher Gage Wood throws no-hitter against Murray State
