Florida, LSU advance to super regionals

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Josh Rivera went 3 for 4, BT Riopelle hit a pair of two-run homers and Florida beat Texas Tech 6-0 on Monday to advance to the super regionals for the first time since 2018.

No. 2 Florida (48-15) survived three consecutive loser-out games to claim the Gainesville Regional championship. The Gators will host Southeastern Conference rival South Carolina in a best-of-three super regional this week.

Wyatt Langford hit a home run in the top of the second to account for the Gators' first run. Langford also stole two bases on one play in the fifth inning and scored on Rivera's single to put UF ahead 4-0.

Riopelle was hitless in 15 plate appearances, with eight strikeouts, in the regional before his two two-run homers.

Ryan Slater started on the mound for just the third time all season for Florida. He tossed five shutout innings and limited the Red Raiders to three hits and two walks for his team-high 10th win.

Texas Tech (41-23) lost to Florida 7-1 on Sunday night to set up the winnertake-all regional championship.

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Dylan Crews and Hayden Travinski each had three of LSU's 19 hits and the Tigers beat Oregon State 13-7 on Monday for the Baton Rouge Regional championship.

LSU (46-15), the No. 5 overall seed, advances to the super-regional round for the 16th time in program history.

Travinski and Cade Beloso hit back-toback home runs in the fifth inning and Crews added his 17th of the season in the sixth for a 7-2 lead. Crews was 8 of 13 with two home runs, four RBIs and five runs scored in the regional.

Tommy White reached 93 RBIs on the season with a two-run single in the seventh for a 10-4 lead.

The first hit for Oregon State (41-20) came in the fourth inning on Gavin Turley's home run to pull within 4-1 and Brady Kasper added a home run in the sixth. Turley also had an inside-the-park homer in the ninth to extend Oregon State's single-season record to 89.