Longhorns topple Georgia; Arizona trounces Arkansas

Texas has outscored its opponents 71-21 in seven tournament games.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- David Maroul's three-run double highlighted Texas' five-run first inning and Seth Johnston and Dooley Prince had four hits apiece to lead the Longhorns to a 9-3 victory over Georgia in the College World Series on Sunday night.
The top-seeded Longhorns earned the inside track to a spot in the best-of-three championship series. They will go to the finals next weekend if they beat the winner of Tuesday's Georgia-Arizona game.
In the other game, Arizona beat Arkansas 7-2.
Texas (57-13), which beat Arkansas 13-2 in the CWS' first round, has outscored its opponents by a combined 71-21 in seven NCAA tournament games. The Longhorns are batting .361 in the tournament.
"Before, we would have just one or two guys come up big for us," Johnston said. "Now there are four or five guys through the lineup who are stepping up."
Early pressure
The Longhorns had their first three batters reach against starter Sean Ruthven, who needed 55 pitches in the opening inning. Johnston and Carson Kainer drove in runs before Maroul's bases-loaded double into the left-field corner for a 5-0 lead.
"That five-run first inning gave us momentum," Texas coach Augie Garrido said. "There were a lot of good at-bats, but none better than Maroul's two-strike battle before his double. And then when they made their run at us, we countered it."
Ruthven (7-2) gave up an RBI double to Curtis Thigpen in the fourth and left in favor of Mitchell Boggs to start the fifth.
"I just couldn't get the ball down," Ruthven said. "They did a good job of staying on me."
Sam LeCure, making his school-record 22nd straight start this season, allowed three hits and one run in four innings. J. Brent Cox (6-1) got the win in relief after giving up two runs on four hits in three innings.
Huston Street pitched one-hit relief over the last two innings.
Georgia (44-22) scored once in the first on Josh Morris' sacrifice fly and twice in the fifth on a Marshall Szabo single and a Josh Morris groundout.
Stepping up
In the early game, Arizona's Jordan Brown looked more like the No. 3 batter he used to be rather than the No. 8 batter he was.
The demoted Brown hit two of his team's four home runs as the Wildcats eliminated Arkansas.
"To me, as long as I'm playing on a stage like this, where I'm hitting doesn't really mean much as long as I get my hacks," said Brown, who was 0-for-13 in super regionals against Long Beach State and struck out three times and had two singles in Friday's first-round CWS loss to Georgia.
Arizona (36-26-1) moves to a Tuesday game against Georgia. Arkansas ended its season 45-24.
John Meloan (10-0) and Mark Melancon combined to hold Arkansas to five hits. The Razorbacks had managed only two hits in a 13-2 loss to Texas on Friday.