Florida wins first crown

Gators top SEC rival LSU, 6-1

Florida scored four runs in the eighth to pull away from LSU, and the Gators beat their SEC rival, 6-1, Tuesday night to complete a two-game sweep in the College World Series final for their first national title in baseball.

Freshman Tyler Dyson (40) limited the Tigers to three hits in six innings in only his second start.

Florida was in the CWS for the 11th time and previously had made it to the final in 2005 and 2011, getting swept each time.

Kevin O’Sullivan, the Gators’ 10th-year coach, had brought the Gators to six of the past eight College World Series.

Last year was supposed to be his best chance to win it all. The Gators were the No. 1 national-seed for the NCAA tournament, and they had eight players who were taken in the first 10 rounds of the 2016 Major-League Baseball draft.

They went two games and out.

Florida this year brought back one of the nation’s top weekend rotations in CWS Most Outstanding Player Alex Faedo, Brady Singer and Kowar and a reliever in Michael Byrne who led the country with a school-record 19saves.

The Gators (52-19) posted the eighth sweep in the 15 years of the best-of-three final format, and first since 2013. LSU (52-20) lost for the first time in seven appearances in achampionship game.