Reigning national champion Vanderbilt and Stanford swept their NCAA super regionals and became the first teams to lock up spots in the College World Series. Jack Leiter gave Vanderbilt another stellar pitching performance in a 4-1 win over East Carolina. Stanford’s Alex Williams pitched a two-hitter and Brock Jones homered three times in a 9-0 win at Texas Tech. North Carolina State beat Arkansas 6-5 to even that series. Mississippi also tied its series with Arizona with a 12-3 victory. In super regional openers, Mississippi State beat Notre Dame 9-8, Dallas Baptist defeated Virginia 6-5, Tennessee beat LSU 4-2, and Texas posted a 4-3 walk-off win over South Florida.
