Oklahoma knocks off S. Carolina

Associated Press

OMAHA, Neb.

Caleb Bushyhead homered and drove in the winning run, and Jeremy Erben and Ryan Duke worked out of bases-loaded situations in the eighth inning to lead Oklahoma to a 4-3 victory over South Carolina in the rain-plagued College World Series on Sunday night.

The start of the game was delayed 4 hours, 15 minutes, and play was halted for an additional 2:01 by rain and lightning in the middle of the sixth inning.

Bushyhead homered to break a 1-1 tie in the second, and he singled into the right-field corner to make it 3-2 in the fourth.

South Carolina was within a run after Duke walked Jackie Bradley on four pitches with the bases loaded in the ninth, but Duke got Adrian Morales to fly out to end the game.

Arizona St-Clemson

The first-round College World Series game between Arizona State and Clemson has been postponed until today at 11 a.m. because of rain.

COUPLE TIES THE KNOT

Some people waited out Sunday’s rain delay in the Rosenblatt Stadium concourse. One couple decided to get married.

Brian Chandler and Toni Weaver are high school teachers in Jericho, Vt.

“We’ve been planning on getting married,” said Brian, 43.

Toni, 37, had a better idea.

“I said, ‘Brian, we should just elope,’” Toni said.

As the couple killed time on the main drag outside the stadium, they happened upon the Stadium View, a sports memorabilia shop owned by Greg Pivovar. Brian and Toni brought along friends who followed them into the store, where every legal-age customer is greeted with a free can of beer.

Toni jokingly asked if there was a justice of the peace working there.

“We actually asked a couple of cashiers,” Toni said, “and they said Greg was.”

Pivovar, an attorney by trade, is an ordained online minister. He didn’t hesitate when asked to perform the ceremony, and he quickly drew up the couple’s vows on a piece of scrap paper.