College Baseball Regionals 2019: Results, Highlights and Bracket from Friday

Friday marks the start of the 2019 NCAA baseball tournament with all 64 teams beginning their quest for a championship. 

The UCLA Bruins enter this year's tournament as the No. 1 overall seed, though that has traditionally been a curse. The last team to win a national title as the top seed was Miami in 1999. 

Here are the bracket and results from the first day of the tournament from all 16 regional sites:

Los Angeles Regional

No. 1 UCLA def. Omaha: 5-2

Loyola Marymount def. Baylor: 3-1

Corvallis Regional

Cincinnati def. No. 16 Oregon State: 7-6

Michigan def. Creighton: 6-0 

Lubbock Regional

No. 8 Texas Tech def. Army: 11-2

Dallas Baptist def. Florida: 11-8

Oklahoma City Regional

No. 9 Oklahoma State def. Harvard: 2-0

Nebraska def. Connecticut: 8-5

Fayetteville Regional

No. 5 Arkansas def. Central Connecticut State: 11-5

TCU def. California: 13-2

Oxford Regional

No. 12 Mississippi def. Jacksonville State: 16-2

Clemson def. Illinois: 8-4

Athens Regional

No. 4 Georgia def. Mercer: 13-3

Florida State def. Florida Atlantic: 13-7

Baton Rouge Regional

No. 13 LSU def. Stony Brook: 17-3

Southern Mississippi def. Arizona State: 15-3

Atlanta Super Regional

No. 3 Georgia Tech def. Florida A&M: 13-2

Auburn def. Coastal Carolina: 16-7

Chapel Hill Regional

No. 14 North Carolina vs. UNC-Wilmington: 7-6

Liberty def. Tennessee: 6-1

Starkville Regional

No. 6 Mississippi State def. Southern: 11-6

Central Michigan def. Miami: 3-2

Stanford Regional

No. 11 Stanford def. Sacramento State: 11-0

Fresno State def. UC Santa Barbara: 9-2

Louisville Regional

No. 7 Louisville def. Illinois-Chicago: 5-3

Illinois State def. Indiana: 8-7

Greenville Regional

No. 10 East Carolina vs. Quinnipiac: Postponed (rain)

North Carolina State vs. Campbell: Suspended (rain)

Nashville Regional

No. 2 Vanderbilt def. Ohio State: 8-2

Indiana State def. McNeese State: 6-5

Morgantown Regional

No. 15 West Virginia def. Fordham: 6-2

Duke def. Texas A&M: 8-5

Notable Results

Vanderbilt's late-season hot streak continued Friday, as the SEC tournament champions won their ninth straight game overall. The Commodores had no problem disposing of Ohio State, 8-2.

Fresh off being named MVP of the conference tournament, JJ Bleday had another strong showing by going 2-for-3 with two walks, one RBI and one run scored in one of his final auditions for the 2019 Major League Baseball draft on Monday. 

It will be difficult for any game in this tournament to top the finish from North Carolina's 7-6 win over UNC-Wilmington. The Seahawks took a 6-5 lead in the top of the ninth by scoring two runs on a hit by pitch, wild pitch, error and single.

Aaron Sabato got the Tar Heels right back into the game with a leadoff homer in the bottom half of the frame. 

Following Danny Serretti's walk, the game was delayed for three hours by rain. The two teams came back just before 9 p.m. local time and Ike Freeman was walked to put runners on first and second. 

A wild pitch allowed both men to advance a base, setting up an attempted pick-off that didn't work out how UNC-Wilmington was hoping.

After an early third-round exit at the SEC tournament, Arkansas got back on track with an easy 11-5 victory over Central Connecticut State. 

Taking a 3-1 lead into the fourth inning, the Razorbacks blew things wide open with three runs each in the fifth and sixth. Leadoff hitter Trevor Ezell set the tone in the win by going 3-for-5 with three RBI and two runs scored.  

The heart of Nebraska's lineup carried the team to an 8-5 victory over Connecticut. 

The Cornhuskers' 3-7 hitters combined to go 9-for-22 with six RBI and four runs scored. Most of the damage was done in a four-run third inning when the first six hitters reached base against Connecticut starter Mason Feole. 

Connecticut's offense certainly had chances to push more than five runs. The Huskies finished with 19 hits against Nebraska's pitching staff, but they could only muster one run over the final seven innings. 

Head coach Mike Martin's quest to win a national title in his final season is off to a good start following Florida State's 13-7 victory over Florida Atlantic. 

The Seminoles set the tone with a five-run second inning, highlighted by two-run homers from Tim Becker and Drew Mendoza. 

Martin, who has spent his entire 40-year career at Florida State, is the winningest coach in college baseball history (2,024 victories). The only thing missing from his Hall-of-Fame resume is a national title. He's come close with two trips to the College World Series final in 1986 and 1999. but has yet to lead the Seminoles to the promised land.

Stanford, seeking to get out of the regionals for the first time since 2014, had no problems in its tournament debut with an 11-0 win over Sacramento State. 

Four different Cardinal players hit homers, capped off by Nick Oar's pinch-hit two-run blast in the bottom of the eighth. 

With the offense providing plenty of support, Stanford starter Brendan Beck allowed just three hits with five strikeouts in seven innings.

Finally, Cincinnati completed an upset of Oregon State by scoring a run in the eighth and another in the ninth to defeat the Corvallis Regional hosts and reigning College World Series champions.

A triple by Bearcats right fielder A.J. Bumpass brought home second baseman Jace Mercer to give Cincy a 7-6 lead, and closer Korren Thompson pitched a clean bottom of the ninth for his 13th save of the season.