Florida beats TCU 3-0 and Louisville beats Texas A&M 8-4 in their CWS openers.

FLORIDA 3, TCU 0

omaha» Alex Faedo limited TCU to two singles and struck out 11 in seven dominant innings Sunday night as Florida posted its first College World Series shutout since 1991 with a 3-0 victory.

Faedo, the Detroit Tigers’ first-round draft pick last week, had at least one strikeout each inning and retired 10 in a row before turning the game over to closer Michael Byrne to start the eighth.

Faedo, who mixed his slider with a mid90s fastball during a 106-pitch performance, has been part of seven of the Gators’ nine shutouts this season. This shutout was Florida’s second in its 36 all-time CWS games and first in Omaha since a 5-0 victory over Florida State 26 years ago.

TCU’s Jared Janczak (9-1) struggled in his four innings and lost for the first time this season. Byrne worked out of two minijams and earned his 17th save for Florida.

J.J. Schwarz, Christian Hicks and Nelson Maldonado each drove in runs for the Gators, who improved to 48-18.

Florida is in the CWS for the sixth time in eight years and TCU for the fourth year in a row. This was the first time they met.

The Gators came in having lost three consecutive one-run CWS games, and six of their eight losses in Omaha since 2011 have been by one run.

Last year, Faedo was a hard-luck loser in an elimination game against Texas Tech, allowing two runs, walking none and striking out nine. Sunday, he walked two in addition to giving up an infield single and a base hit to left. TCU fell to 47-17.

Janczak lost for the second time in three career CWS starts. The sophomore entered Sunday having allowed three runs in four starts covering 22L innings since he missed a month because of a sore shoulder.