NCAA BASEBALL Buscher leads Gamecocks to CWS

Game-winning home run in the ninth puts Miami up 1-0.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Brian Buscher homered twice and drove in six runs as South Carolina beat North Carolina 14-4 on Saturday to sweep their super regional series and advance to the College World Series.
Landon Powell also hit two home runs and had four RBIs for South Carolina (44-20), which lost to Texas in the national championship game last year.
After falling behind 2-0 in the second, the Gamecocks scored four times in the third to take the lead for good on Buscher's RBI single and Powell's three-run homer.
South Carolina, which won the first game of the series 5-4 on Friday, scored 10 runs over the last three innings to clinch its seventh CWS berth.
Ryan Blake had two RBIs for North Carolina (42-23), which was looking for its first College World Series trip since 1989.
In other games Saturday, Miami edged North Carolina State 10-9 and LSU beat Baylor 6-5.
In games played later in the day, Arizona State was at Cal State Fullerton; Long Beach State was at Stanford; Texas was at Florida State; Houston was at Rice; and Southwest Missouri State was at Ohio State.
Miami 10, North Carolina St. 9
CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Ryan Braun hit a game-winning home run in the ninth and led Miami to a comeback victory over North Carolina State in the first game of their super regional.
Braun went 2-for-5 with two homers and four RBIs, and Gaby Sanchez also homered for the Hurricanes (43-15-1), who rallied from a six-run deficit.
Justin Riley capped a six-run sixth for North Carolina State (45-17) with a grand slam to give the Wolfpack a 9-3 lead. Miami came back in the bottom of the inning, scoring five times on Sanchez's three-run homer, Erick San Pedro's RBI double and Danny Figueroa's RBI single.
San Pedro tied it in the eighth with a sacrifice fly.
Tied 9-9 with two outs in the ninth, Braun homered off Wolfpack closer Joey Devine, giving Miami the win.
LSU 6, Baylor 5
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Clay Harris and Ivan Naccarata hit back-to-back homers in the eighth and Louisiana State tied its super regional series against Baylor.
LSU (44-20-1) took a 3-0 lead in the first on Aaron Hill's homer, but trailed 5-4 in the seventh after RBI singles by Chris Durbin and David Murphy.
Harris tied it in the eighth with a homer off Abe Woody, and Baylor coach Steve Smith brought in Ryan LaMotta, who earned the save in Friday's game. But Naccarata homered to put LSU up 6-5.
The win was the Tigers' first in a super regional since a 4-3, 13-inning victory over Tulane on June 1, 2001, and improved them to 58-11 in NCAA tournament home games.
The Bears (45-22) are attempting to become the first team to win any round of an NCAA tournament game in Baton Rouge against LSU, while the Tigers are seeking their 12th trip to Omaha since 1986.