Penn, Oral Roberts, Rider take down nationwide seeds in NCAA Tournament baseball video games

No. 1 Wake Forest and 10 different nationwide seeds gained their openers within the NCAA regionals on Friday earlier than Penn started a late-night flurry of upsets.

The Quakers gave the Ivy League its first nationwide match win over a Southeastern Conference opponent, beating No. 13 Auburn 6-3 in 11 innings.

Next, Oral Roberts took down No. 11 Oklahoma State 6-4 for its third win over the Cowboys this season and its nation-best nineteenth straight victory.

Minutes later, Rider completed an 11-10 win over No. 10 Coastal Carolina when Richie Sica made a diving catch of Caden Bodine’s flare to heart with the bases loaded.

Penn, which hadn’t gained within the match since 1990, took the lead on Ryan Taylor’s double and added two insurance coverage runs on consecutive squeeze performs. Four pitchers restricted Auburn to 4 hits and struck out 14.

The Ivy League had been 0-9 all-time towards the SEC within the match. Now Penn will attempt to make a run like convention mate Columbia did final season, when it reached a regional closing as a No. 3 regional seed.

Oral Roberts of the Summit League by no means trailed towards the Big 12’s Cowboys whereas profitable its NCAA opener as a No. 4 regional seed for the third time. The Golden Eagles beat Wichita State in 2002 and Baylor in 2012.

Rider, from the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, bought 4 RBIs from Jack Winsett and survived regardless of 4 pitchers permitting 14 hits and strolling eight. The Broncs had misplaced 15 straight within the match since 1987.

Wake Forest posted its nation-leading tenth shutout with its 12-0 victory over George Mason. Seth Keener and two relievers mixed on a three-hitter and Justin Johnson homered twice and drove in six runs.

Nine of the Southeastern Conference’s record-tying 10 groups within the match gained. The Atlantic Coast Conference was 6-2, the Pac-12 was 4-1, the Big 12 was 3-3 and the Big Ten was 3-0.

Six No. 3 regional seeds gained: Washington, Texas Tech, North Carolina State, Samford, Troy and Indiana.

LSU RIDES SKENES, CREWS

LSU’s Dylan Crews and Paul Skenes carried out like guys projected to be the highest two picks within the newbie draft.

Crews was 3 for five with a double and an RBI within the Tigers’ 7-2 win over Tulane. Skenes scattered seven hits, walked none and struck out 12 in his first full recreation.

Skenes additionally made one of many defensive performs of the day when he caught James Agabedis III’s line drive between his legs and threw to first to double off the runner.

“I got tired of them hitting the ball up the middle,” a grinning Skenes mentioned, “and I wanted to catch one.”

100 RBI SEASON

Maryland’s Nick Lorusso turned the primary participant in 20 years to drive in 100 runs in a season when he homered within the first inning in a 7-2 win over Northeastern. New Mexico State’s Billy Becher was the earlier participant with 100 RBIs in 2003.

BIG BATS

Max Kaufer, a .160 hitter coming into the match, had three hits and three RBIs in Texas A&M’s 12-7 win over Cal State Fullerton. … Duke’s MJ Metz homered on three straight plate appearances in a 12-3 win over UNC-Wilmington. … Billy Amick hit a grand slam to interrupt open the sport within the eighth and completed with 5 RBIs in Clemson’s 12-5 win over Lipscomb. … Alex Vergara homered twice for Lipscomb. … Brayden Taylor was 4 for five with a homer and 6 RBIs in TCU’s 12-4 win over Arizona. … Kendall Diggs’ bases-clearing single highlighted a five-run fourth inning in Arkansas’ 13-6 win over Santa Clara. … Dylan Campbell went 2 for 4 in Texas’ 4-2 win over Louisiana and set the Big 12 document together with his thirty sixth straight recreation with successful. … Alberto Rios homered and had 4 RBIs in Stanford’s 13-2 win over San Jose State. … Griffin Merritt and Christian Moore drove in three runs apiece to steer Tennessee previous Charlotte 8-1.

MOUND MARVELS

Four relievers mixed to maintain the Musketeers scoreless over the past 5 innings of Oregon’s 5-4 win over Xavier. The Ducks’ bullpen has a 1.44 ERA in 5 postseason video games. … Virginia had a no-hitter moving into its 15-1 win over Army till Braden Golinski singled with one out within the seventh off Cullen McKay, who took over for Brian Edgington in the beginning of the sixth. … Travis Smith and Mason Moore mixed on a three-hitter in Kentucky’s 4-0 win over Ball State, the Wildcats’ first shutout in 31 all-time NCAA Tournament video games. … Iowa edged North Carolina 5-4 after nearer Luke Llewellyn bought two strikeouts to finish the sport with the tying run at third base. … Micah McDowell went 4 for 4 with six RBIs as Oregon State beat Sam Houston State 18-2.

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