NCAA Baseball Super Regionals 2011, Florida St. Vs. Texas A&M: Aggies Complete CWS Field

Michael Wacha was excellent Monday night, throwing seven and one-thirds innings and allowing only two earned runs on three hits. 1B Jacob House was the offensive star for the Aggies, reaching base four times, driving in two and scoring two runs of his own, though six other Texas A&M players also made it on base multiple times each.

It wasn’t the best night for Hunter Scantling, who gave up four runs in only 13 pitches.

A four-run seventh inning from the Texas A&M Aggies turned a 2-1 deficit into a 5-2 lead in the late-innings of Game 1 of their NCAA Super Regional matchup with the Florida State Seminoles on Saturday. The Aggies tacked on an insurance run in the eighth, and easily hung-on for a 6-2 win to take a 1-0 series lead in Tallahassee.

Ross Stripling pitched seven innings while allowing seven hits and two runs to earn the win for Texas A&M. Kyle Martin and Nick Fleece pitched two innings of shutout ball to preserve the all-important series-opening win for the visiting Aggies. Sean Gilmartin was tagged with the loss for Florida State after allowing five runs on six hits in seven innings.

Unsurprisingly, Game 1 of the NCAA Baseball Super Regional between Texas A&M and Florida State has been a pitchers duel, as aces Ross Stripling and Sean Gilmartin are both throwing very well. Through five innings, both have allowed one run and the game is tied up at 1-1.

Matt Juengel started off the scoring with a solo home run off of Gilmartin in the first inning, but the FSU star has been nearly perfect since then. He has no walks and he’s only allowed two base hits, more than atoning for his early mistake. The Seminoles answered instantly by manufacturing a run in the bottom of the first, and like Gilmartin, Stripling has avoided mistakes since then.