CWS Texas thumps Miami

A record crowd saw the Longhorns roll into a game Monday against Rice.
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OMAHA, Neb. -- Texas' highly anticipated College World Series match-up with Miami was all but over after two innings.
The Longhorns converted two errors by third baseman Gaby Sanchez into seven unearned runs in the first two innings, and J.P. Howell pitched six solid innings as Texas cruised to a 13-2 victory Saturday night.
The defending national champions battered six Miami pitchers for 15 hits.
"It was an offensive display we normally don't put on," Texas coach Augie Garrido said. "There's a lot of potential on this team, so it doesn't come as a surprise. But it does come as a relief when the score stretches out like that."
Record crowd
The game between the last two national champions was played before a CWS record crowd of 26,327.
Texas (49-18) advanced to a game Monday against intra-state rival Rice (54-11), which beat Southwest Missouri State 4-2 earlier Saturday.
Miami (44-16-1) will play Southwest Missouri State (40-25) in an elimination game Monday. The Hurricanes have gone two games and out only once in 19 previous CWS appearances.
Saturday's 11-run loss was the Hurricanes' worst in their 74-game CWS history. Their previous most-lopsided loss was a 12-2 defeat to Texas in 1989.
Howell (10-2) limited the Hurricanes to six hits and two runs in six innings, walking three and striking out eight. J. Brent Cox, Sam LeCure and Josh Smith combined for three innings of scoreless relief.
Powered attack
Omar Quintanilla and Eric Sultemeier homered, Curtis Thigpen had four hits and reached base six times, and Dustin Majewski and Taylor Teagarden had three hits apiece for the Longhorns.
"The hitting got contagious," Quintanilla said.
Texas broke it open after Sanchez's errors.
Sanchez threw into the dirt trying to get Sultemeier at first in the first inning, allowing Tim Moss to score.
In the second, with runners at the corners and two outs, Sanchez couldn't come up with a routine grounder and Thigpen came home from third for the first of six runs in the inning.
Rice 4, SW Missouri 2
OMAHA, Neb. -- Jeff Niemann carried a one-hitter into the ninth inning and Vincent Sinisi and Austin Davis homered for Rice.
Niemann (17-0) won his school-record 18th straight decision over two seasons.
The 6-foot-9, 260-pound sophomore allowed only Greg Mathis' bunt single in the third inning before leaving in the ninth after leadoff homers by Mathis and Jacob Hilgendorf.
David Aardsma got the last three outs for his 12th save.
Niemann walked one and struck out 10. Rice and SMS combined for only eight hits, tying the fewest in a CWS game.
The Bears' Chad Mulholland (10-4) settled down after struggling in the first inning. He hit two batters, walked one and threw a wild pitch -- all against the first three batters.
After loading the bases, Rice picked up two runs on Enrique Cruz's single and Craig Stansberry's sacrifice fly.
Mulholland gave up only four hits the rest of the way, but two were solo homers by Sinisi in the third and Davis in the sixth.
Despite having cramps, Niemann went out to start the ninth inning.