
College Baseball World Series 2016: Sunday Scores, Winners and Bracket Results
The second side of the championship bracket, consisting of four teams, got its College World Series underway in Omaha, Nebraska, on Sunday.
It was an all-Texas affair to open the day, which is to be followed by a national powerhouse taking on a team making its first appearance in Omaha:
| TCU | 5-3 | Texas Tech |
| Coastal Carolina | 2-1 | Florida |
TCU 5, Texas Tech 3
Down 3-2 in the top of the ninth inning with two runners on, Luken Baker launched a three-run home run to lift the TCU Horned Frogs to a 5-3 victory over the Texas Tech Red Raiders.
NCAA Baseball showed the solid contact Baker made with Robert Dugger's pitch:
Texas Tech got on the board first in the bottom of the third after Cory Raley ripped a double down the left field line. Tanner Gardner, who was on first base, looked like he would score easily. But he slowed up while rounding third, believing that he wouldn't have made it, before being told to continue toward home.
It made the play closer than it should have been, but Gardner was able to sneak his hand in under Evan Skoug's tag, via NCAA Baseball:
TCU came up with a reply thanks to Texas Tech miscues in the top of the fourth, when Elliott Barzilli scored on a Ryan Merrill sacrifice fly. Barzilli reached on a leadoff walk and advanced to third when Dane Steinhagen's blooper dropped just in front of second baseman Michael Davis' glove and bounced over it into the outfield.
There was no disputing TCU's next run, though, as Cam Warner laced a hanging changeup over the left field wall to give the Horned Frogs their first lead of the day in the top of the fifth, but it didn't last long.
Gardner was involved again when he tied the game at 2-2 in the bottom half of the inning with a double down the right field line to score Tyler Floyd from second base.
The seesaw affair tipped back into the Red Raiders' favor in the bottom of the eighth. With runners on first and second and two outs, Hunter Hargrove sent one down the left field line to put Texas Tech up 3-2, which set up TCU's dramatic ninth-inning surge.
Texas Tech was unable to touch closer Durbin Feltman, who retired the side with ease to clinch the win for TCU. Texas Tech will face elimination when it plays the loser of Sunday night's matchup between Coastal Carolina and Florida.
Coastal Carolina 2, Florida 1
Coastal Carolina pitcher Andrew Beckwith pitched a complete game and struck out seven as the Chanticleers are moving on to the next round after a one-run victory over the top-seeded Gators.
NCAA Baseball tweeted this after the ace's gem that propelled CCU to its first College World Series victory:
Run support was hard to come by from Coastal Carolina, especially against a stellar Florida pitching staff. But in the top of the sixth inning, the Chanticleers got an RBI triple thanks to Zach Remillard to give them a one-run lead.
That proved to be the winning run, and NCAA Baseball provided the clip of it:
Remillard drove in both of CCU's runs. The first was an RBI double in the top of the third.
Those two runs Coastal Carolina recorded were all it needed against ace Logan Shore, and Beckwith had one of the best games of his career on Sunday.
The Chanticleers' Cinderella run continues. This win officially makes the national championship picture wide open.

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