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Aggies heading to CWS; Texas forces Game 3BY ERIC OLSONTHE ASSOCIATED PRESSTexas AM swept its NCAA super regional and advanced to the College World Series, and Tennessee, Virginia Tech and Texas won Saturday to even their best-of- three series.Mississippi and Arkansas won their super regional openers to move within a win of making the CWS.In super regional openers late Saturday, Auburn played at Oregon State and Connecticut at Stanford.No. 5 national seed Texas AM beat Louisville 4-3 for a second straight one-run win and returns to the CWS for the first time since 2017, the next step in a turnaround season under first-year coach Jim Schlossnagle.One year after failing to qualify for the SEC tournament, Texas AM posted the second-best record in the conference and how has won five straight in the NCAA tournament. The super regional sweep in College Station came one year and two days after theAggies hired away Schlossnagle from TCU, where he had led the Homed Frogs to five CWS in 18 years.“At this time a year ago I was waking up consistently at 3:30 in die morning in a fullbody sweat,” Schlossnagle said. “I had just left a place that was so comfortable. To be sitting here going to the College World Series, every single ounce of credit goes to the players.”Relievers Will Johnston, Brad Rudis and Jacob Palisch combined to limit Louisville to five singles in4 1/3 shutout innings, and the Aggies scored the go-ahead run on a sacrifice fly in the seventh inning.Texas came back from a five-run deficit to beat No. 8 East Carolina 9-8 on Dylan Campbell's bases-loadedsingle in the bottom of the ninth in Greenville, N.C.Campbell also hit a tie-breaking homer in the bottom of the eighth for the Longhorns, who entered the inning trailing 7-4.“There's a lot of fight in this team,” Texas coach David Pierce said.
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