Texas beats Arizona St., 10-6, in CWS

ASSOCIATED PRESS

OMAHA, Neb. — Cameron Rupp’s second home run of the game broke a seventh-inning tie, and Texas overcame a six-run deficit to beat Arizona State 10-6 in the College World Series on Tuesday night.

Rupp drove Mitchell Lambson’s first pitch of the seventh inning over the right-field wall to give the Longhorns the lead. He also hit a three-run homer to start Texas’ comeback in the fourth.

No. 1-seeded Texas (48-14-1) is 2-0 in the CWS and has advanced to the Bracket 2 final on Friday. The Longhorns need one more win to reach next week’s best-of-three championship round. They will play either ASU (50-13) or North Carolina on Friday.

Freshman Taylor Jungmann (10-3) picked up his second win in relief at the CWS, holding ASU to two hits in 52‚Ñ3 shutout innings. Lambson (9-4) took the loss.

N. Carolina 11, S. Mississippi 4

OMAHA, Neb. — Dustin Ackley went 5-for-6 and became the College World Series’ career hits leader, and North Carolina tied a CWS record with 23 hits.

The Tar Heels (48-17) eliminated the Golden Eagles (40-26) and sent Southern Mississippi coach Corky Palmer into retirement.

Ackley has 27 hits in 14 CWS games. The No. 2 overall draft pick by the Seattle Mariners, in his bid to become the second player to have six hits in a CWS game, flew out to left in the ninth inning.

North Carolina’s Adam Warren (10-2) allowed three hits and struck out six in six innings.

JR Ballinger (6-4) gave up six runs, nine hits and four walks in 22‚Ñ3 innings.

All but three of the Tar Heels’ hits were singles.

Ackley, who has hits in 21 consecutive NCAA tournament games since 2007, singled to left in the third inning to break the record of 24 career hits by Stanford’s Sam Fuld (2001-03).

Ryan Graepel added four hits, and Ben Bunting had three for the Tar Heels.

Warren, who has won three of four career decisions in the CWS, ran into one rough patch. He threw 44 pitches in the fourth inning, when B.A. Vollmuth hit a three-run homer into the left-field seats.

Colin Bates, Patrick Johnson and Nate Striz pitched the final three innings for North Carolina and allowed a total of two hits.

North Carolina scored at least one run in each of the first four innings.