Six of the record-tying 10 Southeastern Conference groups within the NCAA Tournament will take the subsequent step on the “Road to Omaha.”
No. 2 nationwide seed Florida, No. 5 LSU and No. 12 Kentucky wrapped up regionals Monday and be part of fellow SEC members No. 15 South Carolina, No. 16 Alabama and Tennessee in tremendous regionals starting Friday.
No. 8 Stanford, TCU, Duke and Southern Mississippi additionally received regionals Monday.
Florida superior with a 6-0 victory over Texas Tech. The Gators had been knocked out of three straight regionals on their dwelling discipline and this time needed to win three straight elimination video games to achieve tremendous regionals for the primary time since 2018.
Ryan Slater and two relievers mixed on the four-hit shutout and BT Riopelle, who had been 0 for 15 with eight strikeouts within the regional, hit a pair of two-run homers.
“Last year left a bad taste in our mouths and we didn’t want to overlook any team in this regional no matter what, and that’s exactly what we did,” Gators shortstop Josh Rivera mentioned. “We came out here and we treated every team like it was the best team we were going to face all year and we just competed every at-bat, every pitch. It’s a blessing to be where we are right now and to understand that the job is not finished.”
Winners of the best-of-three tremendous regionals will go to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, starting June 16.
Top-eight nationwide seeds are assured of internet hosting tremendous regionals in the event that they win their regionals. The NCAA will announce different websites on Tuesday.
Matchups: Alabama (43-19) at No. 1 Wake Forest (50-10); South Carolina (42-19) at Florida (48-15); TCU (40-22) vs. No. 14 Indiana State (45-15); Southern Mississippi (45-18) vs. Tennessee (41-19); Oral Roberts (49-11) vs. Oregon (40-20); Texas (41-20) at Stanford (42-17); Duke (38-22) at No. 7 Virginia (48-12); and Kentucky (40-19) at LSU (46-15).
BIG BATS
Hayden Travinski and Cade Beloso hit back-to-back homers within the fifth inning to assist LSU previous Oregon State 13-7. … Braden Montgomery went 3 for 4 with a house run in Stanford’s 7-1 win over Texas A&M. … Kurtis Byrne went 4 for five with two homers to steer TCU previous No. 3 Arkansas 12-4. Tre Richardson went deep and drove in three runs a day after he homered 3 times, together with two grand slams, and tied the NCAA Tournament document with 11 RBIs. … Alex Stone, who homered twice in opposition to Coastal Carolina on Sunday, went deep once more as Duke beat the Chanticleers 12-0. … Hunter Gilliam and Ryan Waldschmidt hit RBI doubles within the sixth inning to assist Kentucky to a 4-2 win over Indiana. … Dustin Dickerson homered for the second straight sport, this time hitting a tiebreaking three-run shot within the sixth inning to assist Southern Mississippi previous Penn 11-7.
MOUND MARVELS
Pac-12 pitcher of the 12 months Quinn Mathews, who threw 114 pitches in seven sturdy innings within the regional opener in opposition to San Jose State, got here again on two days’ relaxation to throw 66 extra in 4 innings of shutout reduction in opposition to Texas A&M. … Duke’s Alex Gow and three relievers held Coastal Carolina to at least one hit by way of eight innings in a 12-3 victory. … TCU’s Cam Brown and Ben Abeldt mixed to permit three hits in opposition to Arkansas, however issued six walks. … Will Armistead struck out 5 whereas pitching 2 2/3 innings of one-hit shutout reduction to complete Southern Miss’ win. … Mason Moore pitched 5 innings of shutout reduction for Kentucky. … Florida’s Ryan Slater pitched 5 shutout innings in his third begin of the season, and he allowed two runs over eight innings in three regional appearances.
AROUND THE HORN
The SEC additionally despatched six groups to tremendous regionals in 2004 and 2018. … Indiana State introduced Monday it might be unable to host its tremendous regional due to a previous dedication to host the Indiana Special Olympics for the 51st straight 12 months. Indiana State, as a nationwide seed, would have been in line to host in opposition to an unseeded TCU. … LSU is in supers for the eighth time since 2012 and sixteenth time general, second-most to Florida State’s 17. … TCU is in supers for the primary time since 2018. … Arkansas did not get out of regionals for the primary time since 2017. … Southern Miss is in supers for the second straight 12 months underneath Scott Berry, who’s retiring after the season. … Duke made supers for the third time since 2018. … Kentucky’s solely different regional title got here in 2017.
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