GREENVILLE, N.C. – No. 9 seed Texas scored nine runs in the first two innings and claimed the 2022 Greenville Super Regional over No. 8 National Seed East Carolina Monday morning at Lewis Field inside Clark-LeClair Stadium. With their win, the Longhorns advance to the 38th College World Series that will begin later this week in Omaha, Neb.
The Pirates, who won the American Athletic Conference regular season and tournament championship, closed out the season with a 46-21 overall record which included a program- and conference-best 20 consecutive wins from April 29 to June 4. The 2022 club hosted ECU's fourth consecutive regional, advanced to their third-straight super regional and for the first time in program history it hosted a super regional in Greenville, N.