Huskies overcome Titans in Game 1
Levi Jordan was 3 for 4 with two RBIs to extend his hitting streak to eight games as visiting Washington beat Cal State Fullerton, 8-5, Friday in the Huskies’ first NCAA tournament super regional.
Washington scored two runs in the fifth inning — including Jordan’s sacrifice fly — for Fullerton’s only deficit this postseason. Freshman Kaiser Weiss hit a two-run double in the ninth after entering as a defensive replacement.
Washington (34-23) came into the three-game series 08 against Fullerton (35-24) in all-time games.
Washington freshman starter Lucas Knowles struck out three while allowing five hits and one earned run. Closer Alex Hardy entered in the seventh and slated Game 2 starter Joe DeMers pitched the ninth.
Fullerton, despite committing five errors, was within 6-5 in the eighth but left the bases loaded against Hardy.
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Oregon State 8, Minnesota 1: Trevor Larnach and Adley Rutschman hit back-toback home runs in the first inning and No. 3 national seed Oregon State (48-10-1) beat Minnesota (44-14), 8-1, in Game 1. Larnach, selected 20th by the Minnesota Twins in the baseball draft earlier this week, finished 2 for 3 with two RBIs and two runs scored. Rutschman added an RBI double followed by Michael Gretler’s RBI triple in the seventh for the Beavers. OSU scored one run in the second and two more in the fourth on back-to-back doubles by Jack Anderson and Zak Taylor and an RBI single by Steven Kwan. Oregon State starter Luke Heimlich (16-1) went 8⅔ innings with nine strikeouts and seven hits. He left the game to a standing ovation in his last game at Goss Stadium in Corvallis, Ore.
North Carolina 7, Stetson 4: North Carolina got home runs from Cody Roberts and Michael Busch, and Cooper Criswell held No. 11 Stetson to one run over five innings in the Tar Heels’ 7-4 win in Chapel Hill, N.C. The Tar Heels ended No. 11 overall seed Stetson’s NCAA’s-best 18-game win streak while winning its 17th in a row at home. Stetson ace Logan Gilbert went 5⅓ innings, matching his shortest outing of the season. Gilbert gave up the homer to Roberts, the third off the Seattle Mariners’ firstround draft pick over his past 10 innings. The Hatters batted .311 and outscored their three regional opponents, 297, but were just 6 of 33 (. 182) against the Tar Heels. Since the current tournament format went into effect in 1999, 78.9 percent of the teams that won Game 1s in super regionals have advanced to the CWS.