A few hours after Wright State retained Vanderbilt in the ninth round to eliminate the national seed n ° 1 from the NCAA tournament with a 5-4 victory on Sunday at the Nashville Regional, the Texas national seeded, Texas, by UTSA, at the Austin Regional Championship.
This is the second time that national seeds have been introduced in 1999 that the first two seeds have both been eliminated in the regional championships, 2014 being the other (n ° 1 of Oregon State, n ° 2 Florida).
In Nashville, in Tennessee, Griffen Paige granted two points on a safe blow on eight rounds and more, and Boston Smith and Luke Arnold struck the consecutive circuits early to propel Wright State, the regional seeded n ° 4 of the Horizon League, in the final, where the raiders fell to Louisville 6-0 later.
Paige walked six, withdrew two years and abandoned Brodie Johnston’s second circuit stroke when it was released from 113 pass.
“The biggest match in which I never participated, and I introduced myself and I got out there while trying to get the guys out, one at a time, a field at a time. You can do nothing else,” said Paige.
The commodores have become the first seeded national n ° 1 not to reach its regional final since the tournament went to its current format in 1999.
Austin Nye faced only seven strikers, Smith and Arnold taking him deep with two withdrawals in the first for a 4-0 lead.
Vanderbilt was the fourth seeded national to eliminate and became the first n ° 1 to be rebounded in the regional since the UCLA in 2015.
In Austin, Texas, Longhorns welcomed a regional for the 38th time in the history of the program.
Norris McClure went 3-in-5 with a two-point circuit during the first round, and the UTSA added five points in the third to go to the first regional program of the program. The roadrunners finished 0-6 in their first three appearances at the NCAA tournament before winning three games in a row this season, including a 9-7 victory against the Longhorns on Saturday.
The sixth crunch of the McClurie of the season exceeded the wall of the right field for an advance of 2-0.
The defense of the UTSA appeared several times, from the third. James Taussig took a shot on the warning track in the left field and quickly brought it to the man cut for a rocket in third place to finish the round in double game.
Ty Hodge aligned a shot in the center that left the central defender’s glove to clear the basics of an advance of 6-0. Mason Lytle added a single to two withdrawals for a seven -point lead.
Lytle, the defensive player of the year of the American Athletic Conference, took a dive on the warning track in the center to save a race in the fourth.
Gunnar Brown only granted one deserved point and six strokes at the start of five rounds for the UTSA. Robert Orloski withdrew four in three rounds to obtain his ninth stop.
Hudson Hamilton only made a round in his departure for Texas.
The ESPN research and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
