hit a home run in the sixth inning and made a leaping catch at the center-field wall in the seventh, helping North Carolina State beat Georgia 8-5 on Monday night to secure the program’s fourth trip to the College World Series.
N.C. State advances to an opening-round game against Kentucky on Saturday. The Wolfpack have won 18 of their last 23 games. Georgia , which forced a winner-take-all game with an 11-2 victory on Sunday, was looking to make its seventh trip to the CWS. N.C. State took the lead for good, 3-2, in the top of the fourth when Matt Heavner scored from third on a wild pitch. Alec Makarewicz made it 4-2 with an RBI single down the third base line.Georgia had two on with no outs in the seventh before Serrano’s highlight catch to keep a three-run lead. N.C. State reliever Derrick Smith got Tre Phelps, who had a hit in his first three at-bats, to pop up to end the inning.
Makarewicz followed in the top of the eighth with N.C. State’s 16th home run in six NCAA Tournament games for an 8-4 lead.Federal rule on Title IX is a ruse to require trans sports participation, GOP states sayGeorgia star Charlie Condon hit his nation-leading 37th home run in the top of the ninth for his 78th RBI. Smith retired Phelps again for his eighth save of the season.Serrano went 3 for 4 and Makarewicz finished with three RBIs. Garrett Pennington hit a two-run shot in the second for N.C.
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