NCAA Baseball Tournament 2017 scores and bracket: Sam Houston State cannot and will not stop

Florida got knocked off on Sunday night by Bethune-Cookman, but the No. 3 overall national seed Gators in the end prevailed over the Wildcats to earn a super regional bid. The Gators will host Wake Forest next weekend in Gainesville for a best of three series and claiming rights to the College World Series in Omaha proper. Well now.

The Fayetteville regional was an under-the-radar dogfight, and in the end Missouri State of all teams came out on top. The Bears required just three pitchers to down the Hogs at home, and three separate batters handled the day’s scoring. These Bears are bad news, and we’re not even sorry.

Due to some atrocious weather in Fort Worth and Hattiesburg over the weekend, a handful of games were pushed to Monday of this week. As of Monday morning, in fact, three teams yet survived in Fort Worth: Dallas Baptist, Virginia, and hosts TCU were still duking it out for the rights to a super regional berth, with only TCU — the sixth overall national seed — having no losses.

In the Houston regional, Texas A&M got 8 1/3 innings from starter Stephen Kolek to shut down hosts Houston, 4-3. Mop-up man Cason Sherrod faced just one batter and stone-colded him to send the Aggies through to the super regional round. This is just filthy.

In the Lubbock regional, Sam Houston State went on a tear to win their way into the super regional, thanks to 4 2/3 innings of work by middle reliever Riley Cooper. Starter Seth Ballew got into trouble early and lasted just two innings, but the pen came in behind him to finish the job. Let’s all admire closer Nick Mikolajchak’s leaping celebration on the final strikeout.

Below is Monday’s complete scoreboard. We’ll pick back up next week as super regional action starts.

All times Eastern

Game 7: No. 2 Vanderbilt elimin. No. 1 Clemson, 8-0 (Vanderbilt advances to super regional round)

Game 7: No. 2 MIssouri State elimin. No. 1 Arkansas, 3-2 (Missouri State advances to super regional round)

Game 6: No. 3 Dallas Baptist elimin. No. 2 Virginia, 11-8
Game 7: No. 1 TCU (6) elimin. No. 3 Dallas Baptist, 15-3 (TCU advances to super regional round)

Game 7: No. 1 Florida (3) elimin. No. 3 Bethune-Cookman, 6-1 (Florida advances to super regional round)

Game 6: No. 2 Mississippi State elimin. No. 1 Southern Miss, 8-6 (Mississippi State advances to super regional round)

Game 7: No. 3 Texas A&M elimin. No. 1 Houston, 4-3 (Texas A&M advances to super regional round)

Game 7: No. 1 Kentucky elmin. No. 3 NC State, 10-5 (Kentucky advances to super regional round)

Game 7: No. 1 Long Beach State elimin. No. 2 Texas, 2-1 (Long Beach State advances to super regional round)

Game 7: No. 3 Sam Houston State elimin. No. 1 Texas Tech (5), 4-3 (Sam Houston State advances to super regional round)

Game 7: No. 1 Florida State elimin. No. 3 Auburn, 6-0 (Florida State advances to super regional round)