Vanderbilt Tops North Carolina CWS
Omaha - North Carolina has been left to reflect on its revenue side 7-3 after losing to Vanderbilt on Saturday, the College World Series.
Tar Heels left 16 runners on base - a CWS game record is 17 - and that included the men to remain in third, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth and ninth innings.
"It's basically the story of the game for us offensively," Tar Heels coach Mike Fox said. "This is how you play the lawn first to last and get two hits.
"And they have, and we have not."
Connor Harrell hit the first home run of the CWS TD Ameri Trade Park to break a tie in the sixth inning and three relievers held in North Carolina get less on three hits over the last five innings.
"I think they are prepared, especially when (we) had runners on base when he was two outs, and I think the crowd has them in it," Tar Heels Left Fielder Chaz Frank said. "They just made some good throws, and we were not able to hit in time as we did throughout the year.
"We went to our pitching and defense all year. And we have been able to get timely hitting and could not get today."
"It was a great victory for us," Vanderbilt coach Tim Corbin said. "You never know how you will react the first time."
Vanderbilt (53-10) at No. 6 national seed, advanced to face Florida (51-17) Monday. No. 3-seed North Carolina (50-15) play Texas (49-18) in the losers bracket.
24 500 seats TD Ameritrade Park has opened a lot of fanfare, but the number of 22 745 was a lack of a traitor is a hot, humid afternoon. $ 131 million to replace the park Rosenblatt Stadium, which hosted the CWS since 1950 until 2010.
The first round lasted Sonny Gray 4 2 / 3 tickets for Vanderbilt, the shortest of his 18 starts since going 4 1 / 3 in the game of the season. He allowed three runs and eight hits and walked five.
Florida 8, Texas 4:
Bryson Smith and Brian Johnson drove in two runs apiece and Randall Hudson made another solid start for the Gators. Johnson with two doubles in the seventh inning broke a close game. Smith RBI single second the next game gave reliever Nick Marondera a four-run cushion in the ninth. ... Randall retired 13 straight from third to seventh rounds. ... Taylor Jungmann, selection of the first round of beer, was third in gross output directly from Texas, going 4 1 / 3 innings for his cut of the beginning of the season.
