COLLEGE BASEBALL SW Missouri State ends Ohio State's season

The Buckeyes thought they were slighted on a controversial call.
COLUMBUS (AP) -- There is no dispute that Southwest Missouri State is headed for its first College World Series.
One pitch after a controversial call on a two-strike breaking ball, Tony Piazza hit a grand slam as the Bears beat Ohio State 13-7 Sunday night.
Piazza's blast over the wall in left capped an eight-run rally and sent the Bears into a Saturday matchup with either Rice or Houston in Omaha's Rosenblatt Stadium.
The Bears (40-24), champions of the Missouri Valley Conference, swept the first two games of the best-of-3 super regional at Ohio State's Bill Davis Stadium. They scored five runs in the eighth inning to win Saturday night's opener, 13-8.
Protest
Ohio State's bench protested and a sellout crowd of 5,090 booed loudly when plate umpire David Rogers called a ball on a 1-2 pitch from reliever Kyle Brown to Piazza with the score tied 6-6 and two out in the sixth.
"It was close," Piazza said. "He had a pretty hard curveball. He started it outside the zone and it just broke down and out of the zone."
Piazza then jumped on the next pitch, lining it over the wall in left for his 15th of the season.
"I tried to get him inside with a fastball," Brown said. "I didn't get it inside enough and he turned on it."
A fan threw a plastic water bottle at Rogers as the umpire walked near the Ohio State dugout to eject pitching coach Pat Bangtson.
Ohio State coach Bob Todd was upset by the call.
"Everybody's got replay and they can go back and take their own look at it on television," he said before declining to discuss the pitch further.
For insurance
Shawn Marcum then followed Piazza's blast with a homer to give the Bears an 11-6 lead.
"I was just counting the seconds," Piazza said of his long wait for the game to finally come to an end. "Then I was just looking for someone to hug."
Piazza drove in five runs, adding an RBI double in the eighth.
Ohio State (44-21), which won the Big Ten tournament to make the NCAA field, led 6-3 through five innings on the strength of home runs by Brett Garrard and Steve Caravati.
Then the Bears broke the game open with eight unearned runs in the sixth.