Fullerton beats Stanford 4-1

Right-hander John Gavin allowed three hits and struck out 10 in seven innings, second baseman Sahid Valenzuela had three hits, drove in a run and scored the goahead run in the fifth inning, and Cal State Fullerton defeated top-seeded Stanford 4-1 on Friday night to improve to 2-0 in the Stanford Regional.

The Titans on Saturday night will face the winner of an afternoon elimination game between Stanford and Brigham Young. If the Titans win, they will advance to a super regional. If they lose, they would play the same team again on Sunday to decide the regional championship.

Valenzuela tripled and scored on Dillon Persinger’s single in the fifth to give Fullerton a 2-1 lead.

Davidson 8, North Carolina 4: The Wildcats, in the NCAA tournament for the first time in the program’s 115year history, made it a memorable debut in the Chapel Hill Regional by stunning the No. 2-seeded Tar Heels on their home field.

North Carolina became the highest national seed to lose its regional opener since No. 2 Florida lost to College of Charleston in 2014. The Gators were eliminated the next day.

Charleston, however, was in the tournament for the sixth time in 2014. Davidson had never won a baseball title of any kind before beating Virginia Commonwealth in the Atlantic 10 final on Sunday, and the Wildcats’ alltime record is more than 600 games under .500.

Davidson rocked ACC pitcher of the year J.B. Bukauskas, led 8-0 after five innings and moved to a winners’ bracket game Saturday against Florida Gulf Coast, another team in the national tournament for the first time. FGSU beat Michigan, putting the Wolverines into an elimination game against North Carolina.

Tennessee State 3, Florida State 1: Ryan Flick’s tworun double in the ninth inning pushed the fourth-seeded Golden Eagles past the host Seminoles in the day’s other big upset, forcing the Tallahassee Regional’s No. 2 seed into an elimination game Saturday against Central Florida.