LONG BEACH, Calif.—Second-seeded Texas Baseball used eight innings from Morgan Cooper, three solo homers and a clutch 12th-inning two-run single from Travis Jones to defeat top-seeded Long Beach State, 5-3, on Saturday night at Blair Field. With the win over the Dirtbags in the matchup of 1-0 teams, the Longhorns advance to the Long Beach Regional final on Sunday.
The game proved to be another pitchers' duel in Long Beach as both Cooper and LBSU's Darren McCaughan were both named Collegiate Baseball All-Americans earlier this week.
The Dirtbags got on the board first off Cooper when they manufactured a run on the base paths, but in the top of the second, Bret Boswell answered with his first of two homers in the game.