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The LSU baseball team closed out 70-year-old Alex Box Stadium in triumphant fashion Monday night.
Now the Tigers are headed back to their home away from home for more than two decades: Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Neb., site of the College World Series.
LSU emphatically stamped its ticket by crushing UC Irvine 21-7 in the third and final game of the Baton Rouge Super Regional before an Alex Box-record crowd of 8,173. The win sends the No. 7-seeded Tigers (48-17-1) into the CWS to play No. 2-seeded North Carolina (51-12) at 6 p.m. Sunday on ESPN2.
This is LSU’s 14th CWS appearance since 1986 and first since 2004.
UC Irvine (42-18) was three outs from eliminating LSU in Game 2. The Anteaters beat LSU 11-5 on Saturday and led 7-4 in the ninth inning Sunday. The Tigers rallied for five runs to win 9-7 and force Monday’s winner-take-all contest.
There was no such drama in Game 3. LSU took a 6-0 first-inning lead on consecutive home runs by Blake Dean, Micah Gibbs and Matt Clark and was never challenged.
The Tigers belted seven homers in all, two by Ryan Schimpf.
Now the Tigers are headed back to their home away from home for more than two decades: Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Neb., site of the College World Series.
LSU emphatically stamped its ticket by crushing UC Irvine 21-7 in the third and final game of the Baton Rouge Super Regional before an Alex Box-record crowd of 8,173. The win sends the No. 7-seeded Tigers (48-17-1) into the CWS to play No. 2-seeded North Carolina (51-12) at 6 p.m. Sunday on ESPN2.
This is LSU’s 14th CWS appearance since 1986 and first since 2004.
UC Irvine (42-18) was three outs from eliminating LSU in Game 2. The Anteaters beat LSU 11-5 on Saturday and led 7-4 in the ninth inning Sunday. The Tigers rallied for five runs to win 9-7 and force Monday’s winner-take-all contest.
There was no such drama in Game 3. LSU took a 6-0 first-inning lead on consecutive home runs by Blake Dean, Micah Gibbs and Matt Clark and was never challenged.
The Tigers belted seven homers in all, two by Ryan Schimpf.
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