Successful Weekend Sends Hurricanes Riding High Into Super Regionals
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CORAL GABLES (CBSMiami/AP) — It was a very exciting weekend for the University of Miami baseball team.
Randy Batista's two-out single brought Christopher Barr home for the winning run in the bottom of the ninth, and Miami won the Coral Gables Regional by downing Long Beach State 9-8 on Sunday night.
Willie Abreu and Zack Collins homered for the Hurricanes (48-11), who led 8-1 after four innings and then found themselves scrambling to oust the Dirtbags.
Alex Muzzi drove in three runs and Jarren Duran scored three times for Long Beach State (38-22), which got six runs in the sixth and another in the eighth to tie the game.
Sunday's game came on the heels of another nail-biter between the teams on Saturday.
Jacob Heyward narrowly scored on Carl Chester's two-out single in the 11th to guide Miami past Long Beach State 4-3 in a wild back-and-forth game.
Chester had three hits and two RBIs for Miami, which was one strike from winning in the ninth when Jeff Nellis — an .095 hitter with two hits all season, both against UCLA on Feb. 23 — tied it with a solo homer off Miami closer Bryan Garcia.
The Hurricanes will host Boston College in the Super Regionals next weekend.
Miami and Boston College are both members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, but haven't met since the Hurricanes swept a three-game series in 2014.
Miami is 18-6 all-time against Boston College.
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