NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Griffen Paige gave up one run on one hit throughout eight innings, Boston Smith and Luke Arnold hit back-to-back homers early, and Wright State held off Vanderbilt within the ninth to knock the No. 1 nationwide seed out of the NCAA match with a 5-4 victory within the Nashville Regional on Sunday.
The Commodores (43-18) turned the primary No. 1 nationwide seed to fail to achieve their regional remaining for the reason that match went to its present format in 1999.
Wright State (39-20), the No. 4 regional seed out of the Horizon League, play Louisville within the remaining Sunday evening. The Raiders must beat the Cardinals in that sport and once more Monday to achieve a brilliant regional for the primary time.
Paige (2-3) walked six, struck out two and allowed Brodie Johnston’s second-inning dwelling run throughout his 113-pitch outing.
“Largest sport I’ve ever pitched in, and I confirmed up and went on the market attempting to get guys out, one out at a time, one pitch at a time. You may’t do anything,” Paige stated.
He went out to start out the ninth however issued a four-pitch stroll to start out the inning. That is when issues received attention-grabbing. Max Whitesell walked the bases loaded with one out to deliver on Warren Hartzell, who had allowed three homers as Vanderbilt rallied late to beat the Raiders 4-3 in Friday’s regional opener.
Hartzell received a pop-out for the second out earlier than Mike Mancini singled up the center to chop the result in 5-3. Rustan Rigdon then despatched a ball deep to proper heart that bounced over the fence for a ground-rule double. Had the ball not left the sphere, Mancini probably would have scored the tying run on the play. However he was required to return to 3rd, and RJ Austin then flew out to proper to finish the sport.
Austin Nye (2-1) confronted solely seven batters, with Smith and Arnold taking him deep with two outs within the first for a 4-0 lead.
Vanderbilt was the fourth nationwide seed to be eradicated and have become the primary No. 1 to get bounced out in regionals since UCLA in 2015.