NCAA Baseball Tournament 2017 scores and bracket: Louisville first team to Omaha

The second day of super regional play in the 2017 NCAA baseball tournament featured eight games at all eight tournament sites, and Louisville and Texas A&M were the first two teams this year to punch their tickets to the College World Series proper in Omaha, Neb.

The Cardinals downed the Wildcats, 5-2, on Friday then again, 6-2, on Saturday, and Drew Ellis and company are in business in the round of eight. Ellis, in fact, scorched off three home runs in the Louisville super, and his is the hot bat of the tournament currently.

A wild affair went down in the College Station super regional, where Davidson got up on Texas A&M, 6-2, until the top of the eighth when a bonkers collision plated two Aggie runners to cap off a disastrous inning for the Wildcats. The darlings of this year’s tournament were dispatched with relative ease in the super regional round, an unfortunate if not altogether unforeseen outcome. Still these Wildcats should feel encouraged at the run of success they had this year, and hopefully they’ll see tournament play again.

Down in the Gainesville super regional, rain blasted through north-central Florida soon after first pitch, delaying play a full four hours. The resulting nearly eight-hour marathon session couldn’t be decided in nine innings, as the Gators and Demon Deacons took a 1-1 tie into two extra innings before Ryan Larson banged a bases-loaded single to walk off for the Gator win.

This game’s ending also gave us one of the best celebrations of the tournament so far, and why not: Florida hit its first walkoff of the season.

All times Eastern

Game 1: LSU (4) def. Mississippi State, 4-3 (LSU leads, 1-0)
Game 2: LSU (4) vs. Mississippi State, Sunday 9 p.m., WatchESPN
Game 3 (if necessary): LSU (4) vs. Mississippi State, Monday 9 p.m., WatchESPN

Game 1: Texas A&M def. Davidson, 7-6 (15 innings; Texas A&M leads, 1-0)
Game 2: Texas A&M elimin. Davidson, 12-6 (Texas A&M advances to College World Series

Game 1: Oregon State (1) def. Vanderbilt, 8-4 (Oregon State leads, 1-0)
Game 2: Oregon State (1) elimin. Vanderbilt, 9-2 (Oregon State advance to College World Series)

Game 1: TCU (6) def. Missouri State, 3-2 (TCU leads, 1-0)
Game 2: TCU (6) vs. Missouri State, Saturday 6 p.m., WatchESPN
Game 3 (if necessary): TCU (6) vs. Missouri State, Sunday 6 p.m., WatchESPN

Game 1: Florida (3) def. Wake Forest, 2-1 (11 innings; Florida leads, 1-0)
Game 2: Florida (3) vs. Wake Forest, Sunday 3 p.m., WatchESPN
Game 3 (if necessary): Florida (3) vs. Wake Forest, Monday 3 p.m., WatchESPN

Game 1: Long Beach State def. Cal State Fullerton, 3-0 (Long Beach State leads, 1-0)
Game 2: Cal State Fullerton def. Long Beach State, 12-0 (series tied, 1-1)
Game 3 (if necessary): Long Beach State vs. Cal State Fullerton, Sunday 3 p.m., WatchESPN

Game 1: Louisville (7) def. Kentucky, 5-2 (Louisville leads, 1-0)
Game 2: Louisville (7) elimin. Kentucky, 6-2 (Louisville advances to College World Series)

Game 1: Florida State def. Sam Houston State, 7-6 (Florida State leads, 1-0)
Game 2: Florida State vs. Sam Houston State, Sunday noon, WatchESPN
Game 3 (if necessary): Florida State vs. Sam Houston State, Monday noon, WatchESPN