UNC plays Friday, N.C. State plays Saturday in Super Regionals

Alec Makarewicz batted 2 for 4, homered and drove in a pair of runs and North Carolina State beat James Madison 5-3 on Sunday to claim the Raleigh Regional and advance to the super regional of the NCAA Tournament.

For the sixth time under Elliott Avent - and the second time in the last four years - the Wolfpack (36-20) are off to the super regionals. North Carolina State will travel to face Georgia who won the Athens Regional.

N.C. State's Matt Heavner led off the fourth inning with a hit-by-pitch, Noah Soles walked and Eli Serrano's sacrifice advanced the runners. Garrett Pennington flied out then Makarewicz was intentionally walked. Then, Jacob Cozart and Brandon Butterworth each drew walks for NC State's first two runs.

The Dukes' Mike Mancini responded with his first solo home run of the game in the bottom half of the fourth to reduce the deficit to 2-1. Makarewicz countered with a solo homer in the sixth before Mancini hit a solo shot in the bottom of the sixth to make it 3-2. At bats by Makarewicz and Mancini generated runs in the eighth before Noah Soles added an insurance run for the Wolfpack with a leadoff solo home run in the top of the 9th.

Macini filled the stat sheet for James Madison (36-25) with a 3-for-4 effort at the plate that included the two home runs and 3 RBI.

With its back against the wall, the ECU offense came alive Sunday against Evansville.

Ryan McCrystal went 3 for 5 and drove in five runs, Dixon Williams and Joey Berini each had three hits and East Carolina beat Evansville 19-6 in the Greenville Regional of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday night.

The Pirates (46-16) forced a winner-take-all game with Evansville to be played on Monday with the victor off to the super regionals.

Luke Nowak drove in four runs and Carter Cunningham and Jacob Starling each drove in three for ECU.

East Carolina scored in every inning but the fifth. With a 12-6 lead after eight the Pirates added another seven.

East Carolina recorded 19 hits. Since Evansville locked down the Pirates in a 4-1 win to start the regional, the Pirates have scored seven, 10 and 19 runs in front of their home crowd.

Mark Shallengerge, Kip Fougerousse and Harrison Taubert each homered for Evansville.

Josh Pearson and Hayden Travinski hit home runs, Steven Milam had a two-run single in a four-run fourth inning and defending champion LSU beat No. 4 national seed North Carolina 8-4 on Sunday night at the Chapel Hill Regional.

LSU (43-22) forced a Monday rematch with North Carolina (44-14) for the regional title and a berth in the super regionals. The Tar Heels knocked the Tigers into the losers' bracket with a 6-2 victory on Saturday.

Pearson homered after Jared Jones walked with two outs in the bottom of the first inning and the Tigers never looked back.

Michael Braswell III had a two-out single in the third to drive in a run and Milam plated his two in the fourth to give LSU 7-1 lead. The Tigers tacked another run on in the fifth on solo homer by Travinski.

North Carolina scored a run in the top of the sixth when Parks Harber doubled, took third on a passed ball and scored on a wild pitch. The Tar Heels scored their final two runs on Anthony Donofrio's bases-loaded single in the seventh.

North Carolina loaded the bases and sent the tying run to the plate with one out in the ninth against reliever Gavin Guidry. But Guidry struck out Luke Stevenson on a full-count pitch and retired Gavin Gallaher on a fly ball to left to end the threat.

Starter Thatcher Hurd (3-4) earned the victory. He allowed two runs on six hits in 5 2/3 innings, striking out six without issuing a walk.

Tar Heels starter Aidan Haugh (4-2) was tagged with the loss after giving up four runs on five hits and two walks in three innings.

LSU is aiming for its eighth title and 20th appearance in the College World Series. The Tigers have lost just once - to Florida in 2017 - when they made it to the finale.

North Carolina has made 11 College World Series appearances, most recently in 2018. The Tar Heels have never won the event, finishing as the runners-up twice, in 2006-07.

LSU beat Wofford 13-6 earlier Sunday to stay alive.

Grant Stevens pitched seven strong innings, Jason Walk drove in two runs and Oklahoma defeated Duke 4-3 on Sunday to advance to the championship round of the Norman Regional at the NCAA Tournament.

Oklahoma (39-20) advanced to play UConn on Sunday night. UConn, which beat Oklahoma 4-1 on Saturday, would advance to the super regionals with a win. An Oklahoma victory would set up a winner-take-all game on Monday.

Stevens (6-1) pitched seven innings, allowing one run on six hits with seven strikeouts and two walks. Malachi Witherspoon got the final five outs for his fifth save.

Duke took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning on an RBI single by AJ Gracia.

In the Oklahoma second, Rocco Garza-Gongora singled up the middle for one run and Walk followed with a two-run triple to right center.

Oklahoma stretched its lead to 4-1 in the seventh when Easton Carmichael singled, advanced to second on a single by Jaxon Willits and scored when Michael Snyder singled to left and the runners advanced on a throwing error by the shortstop.

Gracia hit a one-out, two-run home run in the eighth to make it 4-3. The next batter, Alex Stone, singled to right but the next two batters flied out to end the inning.

The Blue Devils (40-20) went down in order in the ninth.

Fran Oschell III (0-3) took the loss after giving up the three runs in the second inning.