Starkville Daily News

Louisville builds good lead to top Texas A&M 8-4

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OMAHA, Neb. — Louisville had an early five-run lead against Texas A&M and national player of the year Brendan McKay was on the mound. It should have been game over, right?

"We knew Texas A&M wasn't going to fold," coach

Dan McDonnell said.

The Aggies didn't. They pulled within a run in the sixth inning before Sam

Bordner shut them down with three innings of nohit relief, and the Cardinals went on to an 8-4 victory Sunday in the College

World Series.

"It wasn't the best game of the year, but we understand now — as we've seen two on TV and played in one — that these games aren't always the cleanest," McDonnell said. "There's too much competitio­n. Everybody is playing too hard. It's not supposed to be smooth and easy."

The Cardinals (53-10) used six singles and a walk to build a 5-0 lead in the second inning against Corbin Martin (7-4). Texas A&M chipped away against McKay (11-3) to make it 5-4 before Bordner entered and continued to flash his postseason dominance. The sophomore has given up no runs and one hit in his last 11 innings over four appearance­s.

With Bordner doing his thing, the Cardinals added two runs in the bottom of the sixth and another when Colby Fitch doubled in the eighth for his fourth RBI.

Louisville had gone 0-5 over its last three appearance­s in Omaha. The Aggies (41-22) have lost seven straight CWS games and face going two-and-out for the third straight time.

Florida 3, TCU 0

OMAHA, Neb. — Alex Faedo limited TCU to two singles and struck out 11 in seven innings, and Florida posted its first College World Series shutout since 1991 with a win.

Faedo, the Detroit Tigers' first-round draft pick this month, retired 10 in a row before turning the game over to closer Michael Byrne to start the eighth.

Faedo (8-2) has been part of seven of the Gators' nine shutouts this season. The shutout was Florida's second in its 36 all-time CWS games and first in Omaha since a 5-0 win over Florida State 26 years ago.

Jared Janczak (9-1) took the loss, and Byrne earned his 17th save.

JJ Schwarz, Christian Hicks and Nelson Maldonado each drove in runs for the Gators (48-18), who will play Louisville in a Bracket 2 winners' game Tuesday night. The Horned Frogs (47-17) play Texas A&M in an eliminatio­n game Tuesday.

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