Vandy wins at NCAA regional
CLEMSON, S.C. — Drake Fellows threw seven scoreless innings to lead Vanderbilt to a 2-0 victory over St. John’s to start the NCAA baseball tournament Friday.
Fellows (7-4) allowed three hits and two walks while striking out eight for Vanderbilt (32-25). Reid Schaller pitched a scoreless eighth, and Chandler Day finished the shutout an inning later.
Philip Clarke hit a twoout bloop double to drive in a run in the first, and Jayson Gonzalez hit a solo home run in the fifth.
St. John’s starter Sean Mooney (11-3), who gave up both runs, allowed five hits and three walks.
Vanderbilt moved into a winners-bracket game today in the regional hosted by Clemson (45-14) that includes Morehead State (37-24). St. John’s (39-16) will play an elimination game today.
› OXFORD, Miss. — The start of the regional on the Ole Miss campus was pushed back a day after both scheduled games were postponed because of heavy rain that created poor field conditions.
Ole Miss (46-15), the fourth seed nationally, will play its regional opener against Saint Louis (38-18) tonight. Tennessee Tech (48-9) and Missouri State (39-15) meet earlier in the day.
It was still raining when the decision was made to postpone, more than 2 1/2 hours after Tennessee Tech and Missouri State had been scheduled to start the first game. The game never started because of thunderstorms that moved through the area and flooded the field in several places.
› ATHENS, Ga. — Regional host Georgia (37-19) will play its NCAA opener against Campbell (35-24) today. The game was scheduled for Friday, but inclement weather delayed the opener between Duke and Troy, pushing the Bulldogs back to a noon first pitch today. › Auburn 13, Northeastern 4 RALEIGH, N.C. — Edouard Julien and Steven Williams each hit a three-run homer to lead the Tigers (40-21), and Williams finished 4-for-4 with four RBIs.
Auburn led 3-2 after 2 1/2 innings but blew the game open with three runs in the sixth and two more in the seventh. The Tigers finished with 17 hits as five players had multi-hit games.
Tanner Burns (7-4) was the winning pitcher, allowing seven hits and two earned runs in six innings.
Charlie McConnell had three hits, including a solo homer in the fifth, for Northeastern (36-20).
› South Carolina 8, Ohio State 3 GREENVILLE, N.C. — South Carolina pushed ahead with five runs in the seventh inning to win its regional opener.
The second-seeded Gamecocks (34-24) trailed 2-0 before the big inning, which included Danny Blair’s three-run homer. Justin Row followed with a two-run single. The Gamecocks added three runs in the eighth and finished with 14 hits.
Eddy Demurias (7-0) earned the win, allowing four hits and a run in three innings.
Dillon Dingler hit a solo homer and drove in two runs for the Buckeyes (36-23), who had nine hits. › Oklahoma 20, Mississippi State 10 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Oklahoma scored nine runs in the seventh inning and had its most runs in a regional game since 1999.
The Sooners (37-23), who trailed 10-7 after six innings, sent 15 batters to the plate in the seventh as they got seven hits and took advantage of a pair of errors. Thomas Hughes had two hits in the inning, while Brandon Zaragoza and Cade Harris each drove in a pair of runs.
Zaragoza went 4-for7 and drove in four runs, while Justin Mitchell, Kyle Mendenhall and Blake Brewster all had three hits.
The Bulldogs (31-26) had four home runs in the loss. Dustin Skelton, who had a two-run shot in the second for his first collegiate home run, drove in four runs.
Kyle Tyler (6-2) got the win in relief and J.P. France (4-5) got the loss as the teams used a combined 13 pitchers.
› LSU 6,
San Diego State 4
CORVALLIS, Ore. — Jacob Maekawa hit a two-run double in the second inning, and Antoine Duplantis, Jake Slaughter and Zach Watson had RBI singles in the sixth to help the Tigers (38-25), who are making their seventh straight postseason appearance, stay out of the losers bracket.
LSU starter Nick Bush went five innings, allowing three runs on four hits. Devin Fontenot (3-0) got the win in three innings of relief, allowing one run on two hits with four strikeouts.
› Texas A&M 10, Indiana 3
AUSTIN, Texas — John Doxakis had a career-high 12 strikeouts while allowing only one hit over six innings as the Aggies (4020) won their 10th consecutive NCAA regional game.
Doxakis (8-5) struck out the first five batters he faced. The sophomore lefthander, who had 10 strikeouts against Auburn in the Southeastern Conference tournament last week, walked two and gave up one unearned run.
Zach DeLoach and Logan Foster each had three hits for Texas A&M.
Luke Miller homered twice — solo shots in the seventh and ninth innings to give him 13 for the season — for Indiana (38-18).
› Arkansas 10, Oral Roberts 2
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Three players homered and Blaine Knight (11-0) allowed just two runs in eight innings as the Razorbacks (40-18) rolled.
Heston Kjerstad hit a two-run homer in the third inning for the game’s first runs, and Jax Biggers and Carson Shaddy went deep in the sixth to make it 6-2. Kjerstad also had a solo homer in the eighth.
Riley Keizor had a pair of solo homers for Oral Roberts (38-20).