Men's College World Series 2025: Louisville scores 6 in 8th inning to eliminate Arizona

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Two teams have the opportunity to advance to the next round on Day 3 of the 2025Men's College World Series. Coastal Carolina and Oregon State will face each other in the second half of Sunday's doubleheader afterwinning their opening gameson Friday. Elsewhere in the bracket, one team was eliminated from the MCWS when Louisville rallied late to beat Arizona. UCLA and LSU will meet on Monday in the winner's bracket afterwins on Saturday, preceded by Murray State and Arkansas attempting to avoid elimination earlier in the day. After trailing since the first inning, Louisville scored six runs in the eighth to shock Arizona for an 8-3 win. The Wildcats were eliminated from the MCWS with the defeat. Zion Rose dropped an opposite-field single down the right-field line to drive in Jake Munroe and Eddie King Jr. to give Louisville a 4-3 lead in the eighth. Munroe led off the inning by reaching on an error from Arizona shortstop Mason White. King and Tague Davis followed with consecutive singles, setting up Rose's RBI hit. Louisville LEADS 😤#MCWSx 🎥 ESPN /@LouisvilleBSBpic.twitter.com/xaLsptXaRn — NCAA Baseball (@NCAABaseball)June 15, 2025 Davis was thrown out at home while attempting to score on Garret Pike's grounder. But Kamau Neighbors drove Rose in with a single, and Alex Alicea brought home another with a sacrifice bunt. From there, Pluta gave up two straight singles to Lucas Moore and Matt Klein to bring in one more run. Shell-shocked after the six-run barrage, Arizona got two runners on against Louisville reliever Tucker Biven with singles from Easton Breyfogle and Aaron Walton. But Biven recovered to strike out White and got Adonys Guzman to fly out to center field to finish off what felt like an improbable victory. The Cardinals advance to play the loser of Sunday night's Coastal Carolina-Oregon State matchup and keep the possibility of moving on in the tournament alive. Anotha one#MCWSx 🎥 ESPN /@ArizonaBaseballpic.twitter.com/Jtv9NKhrHn — NCAA Baseball (@NCAABaseball)June 15, 2025 Louisville starting pitcher Ethan Eberle helped Arizona take a first-inning lead, hitting Walton and White with pitches. White was thrown out at third after a single from Guzman scored Walton. Guzman then came in to score on consecutive singles by Maddox Mihalakis and Garen Caulfield. The Cardinals cut the deficit in half when Munroe and King led off the second inning with back-to-back singles. Munroe came around to score on a grounder by Rose. However, the Wildcats got that run right back in the top of the third with a home run from Guzman. Have yourself a postseason,@AdonysGuzman3! 😳📺 ESPNpic.twitter.com/maQ8skS9dz — Arizona Baseball (@ArizonaBaseball)June 15, 2025 Arizona starter Smith Bailey held that 3-1 lead until the seventh inning, when Louisville led off with a Garret Pike double and bunt single from Neighbors. Bailey was relieved by Garrett Hicks, who allowed a sacrifice fly by Lucas Moore. Bailey pitched six innings, allowing two runs on seven hits and two walks with four strikeouts. Then Hicks and Pluta combined to allow six runs (only two of them earned) in a late-inning meltdown. For the Cardinals, Eberle allowed those three runs in his 3 2/3 innings. Wyatt Danilowicz and Biven kept Arizona off the board for 5 1/3 innings to enable the comeback. The Wildcats had an opportunity to add to their lead in the eighth after two straight two-out singles by Caulfield and Andrew Cain off Biven. However, the junior right-hander got Tommy Splaine to ground out to shortstop to end the threat and begin Louisville's rally.

 

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