College Baseball Super Regionals 2017: Results, Highlights, Bracket from Friday

The 2017 NCAA baseball tournament resumed Friday with the start of the best-of-three super regionals featuring four games and eight teams that are looking to keep their dreams of a national championship alive.

The super regionals are the final step on the road to Omaha, Nebraska. The tournament began with 64 teams and was whittled down to 16 following regionals action. This weekend will cut the field in half as the final eight earn a trip to the College World Series. 

2017 Super Regionals Results

Louisville Super Regional: Louisville def. Kentucky, 5-2

College Station Super Regional: Davidson vs. Texas A&M, 7-6 (15 Innings)

Long Beach Super Regional: Cal State Fullerton vs. Long Beach State, 6 p.m. ET

Corvallis Super Regional: Vanderbilt vs. Oregon State, 9 p.m. ET

Long Beach State 3, Cal State Fullerton 

Behind a brilliant pitching performance from Darren McCaughan, Long Beach State knocked off Cal State Fullerton 3-0. 

Cal State Fullerton had its only threat of the game in the top of the ninth inning, loading the bases against Dirtbags closer Chris Rivera with one out. Rivera settled in by striking out Hunter Cullen and Chris Hudgins to end the game. 

McCaughan allowed just two hits with seven strikeouts in seven innings. He was backed up by three runs from his offense in the bottom of the first inning that would be all the scoring in the game.

Ramsey Romano and Luke Rasmussen had the big hits in the opening frame with run-scoring doubles. 

The win puts Long Beach State one victory away from its first trip to Omaha since 1998.  

Texas A&M 7, Davidson 6 (15 Innings)

George Janca's walk-off single with two outs in the bottom of the 15th inning gave Texas A&M a 7-6 win over Davidson and ended the longest game in super regional history. 

Texas A&M appeared to be in control of things with a 6-0 lead after five innings. Hunter Coleman's two-run homer in the fifth gave the Aggies all the momentum, starting pitcher Brigham Hill was cruising and Davidson had no answers. 

Things turned starting in the sixth inning when the Wildcats finally got to Hill for three runs to cut the deficit in half. Two more runs in the seventh inning closed the gap to one run with six outs to play. 

After a scoreless eighth inning, Brett Centracchio led off the ninth with a four-pitch walk against Texas A&M reliever Cason Sherrod and he came around to score on Cam Johnson's single back up the middle.

Things would settle down between the two teams after that, though the Aggies missed a golden chance after loading the bases with two outs in the bottom of the 11th when Janca struck out to end the frame.

Texas A&M scuffled with men in scoring position throughout the game, going 2-for-18  with 17 men left on base before Janca finally played the role of hero. 

Louisville 5, Kentucky 2 (Louisville leads series 1-0)

The Louisville Cardinals are one win away from reaching the College World Series for the first time since 2014 after defeating the Kentucky Wildcats 5-2 on Friday.

Playing in front of a partisan home crowd, Louisville started fast with two runs in the first inning. Devin Mann got things started with an RBI single after Logan Taylor led off with a double. 

Drew Ellis completed the scoring for Louisville with a monster three-run homer in the bottom of the fifth that even featured a bat flip, via NCAA Baseball: 

Louisville's pitching was terrific for the first eight innings. Kade McClure struck out six and allowed three hits in 5.1 innings. Adam Wolf shut down the Wildcats with 2.2 innings of one-hit ball. 

Kentucky did make things interesting in the ninth inning by scoring two runs off Cardinals closer Lincoln Henzman. The Wildcats brought the tying run to the plate before T.J. Collett struck out to end the game.