OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Preston Morrison limited LSU to five hits and a run in seven innings, and TCU capitalized on LSU starter Jared Poche’s stunning middle-inning struggles in a 10-3 victory at the College World Series on Sunday. The Horned Frogs (50-13), in the CWS for the second straight year and third time overall, will play a Bracket 2 winners game against Cal State Fullerton or Vanderbilt on Tuesday night. The Tigers (53-11) meet one of those teams in an elimination game that afternoon.

Morrison (12-2) earned his first win in nine career starts in the NCAA tournament. The Chicago Cubs’ eighth-round draft pick struck out five, walked none and retired the last 12 batters he faced.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Heavy rain and lightning forced the suspension of the Cal State Fullerton-Vanderbilt game at the College World Series on Sunday night. Play will resume at 11:05-a.m. Central Time today (Monday) with the Titans leading the defending national champion Commodores 3-0 with two outs in the bottom of the sixth inning.

The weather disrupted a magnificent performance in progress by Cal State Fullerton ace Thomas Eshelman. Eshelman was on the mound when the teams were pulled off the field because of lightning near TD Ameritrade Park. The two-time Big West pitcher of the year had allowed four hits, walked none and struck out eight.

Fullerton scored against Vandy’s Carson Fulmer on Taylor Bryant’s RBI single in the third and on a wild pitch and Josh Vargas’ base hit in the fifth.

CHICAGO (AP) — Starlin Castro drove in the winning run for the second straight night with an RBI single in the 11th inning to lift the Chicago Cubs to a 2-1 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday night. Chris Coghlan doubled just out of the reach of left fielder Kristopher Negron with out in the 11th inning and scored the winning run on Castro’s single to left-center off reliever Burke Badenhop (0-2).

Chicago took three of four in this series. Castro’s RBI single in the ninth gave the Cubs the win Saturday night. Joey Hamilton had a career-high five stolen bases — the most in a game since Jacoby Ellsbury stole five on May 30, 2013, and also tied a Reds record. Hamilton leads the majors with 31 steals. Brian Schlitter (1-2), called up from Triple-A Iowa before the game, got two outs in the 11th for the victory.

ST. LOUIS (AP) – The Kansas City Royals game at the St. Louis Cardinals has been postponed by rain after a delay of 2 hours, 31 minutes. No makeup date has been determined for the final game of the season series. The Cardinals lead the season series 3-2.

Saturday’s Games
New Orleans 5, Omaha 4, 13 innings
Round Rock 5, Memphis 4
Albuquerque 6, Tacoma 3
Oklahoma City 6, Nashville 4
Colorado Springs 4, Iowa 1
Salt Lake 8, Fresno 7
El Paso 8, Sacramento 7, 11 innings
Las Vegas 10, Reno 5

Today’s (Sunday’s) Games
Omaha at New Orleans, 2 p.m.
Colorado Springs at Iowa, 2:08 p.m.
Reno at Las Vegas, 3:05 p.m.
Fresno at Salt Lake, 3:05 p.m.
Albuquerque at Tacoma, 4:35 p.m.
Nashville at Oklahoma City, 7:05 p.m.
Round Rock at Memphis, 7:05 p.m.
Sacramento at El Paso, 8:05 p.m.

Girl’s State Soccer Championship results from Saturday June 13
Class 1A Championship – Bishop Heelan 2, Nevada 0
Class 2A Championship – Ankeny 2, Pleasant Valley 1 (OT)
Class 3A Championship – Iowa City West 1, Dowling Catholic 0

AREA SOFTBALL SCORES
A-D-M, Adel 4, Colfax-Mingo 0
A-D-M, Adel 7, Roland-Story 0
Carroll 7, MMC-RU 6 (9)
Charter Oak-Ute 13, Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson 1
Charter Oak-Ute 14, East Mills 4
Creston 12, Dallas Center-Grimes 7 (12)
Creston 9, Treynor 0
Denison-Schleswig 7, Newell-Fonda 1
Griswold 12, Red Oak 4
Griswold 5, Mount Ayr 4 (8)
IKM-Manning 7, Exira-EHK 0
Interstate 35, Truro 6, Lenox 2
Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 10, Maple Valley-Anthon Oto 8
Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 8, MMC-RU 2
Lenox 9, Earlham 8
Lewis Central 7, Ogden 5
Maple Valley-Anthon Oto 14, Carroll 0
Newell-Fonda 13, OA-BCIG 3
OA-BCIG 9, East Sac County 6
Panorama 13, Coon Rapids-Bayard 3
Panorama 13, Glidden-Ralston 1
Riverside, Oakland 13, Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson 7
Riverside, Oakland 13, Underwood 12
Sidney 18, East Mills 7
Sigourney 15, Danville 3
Southeast Valley 6, Coon Rapids-Bayard 0
Treynor 6, Clarinda 5
Underwood 11, Sidney 0
Winterset 4, Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 3

BASEBALL SCORES

CAM, Anita 7, Red Oak 5
Carroll 3, Denison-Schleswig 1
Carroll 4, Hampton-Dumont 1 (Carroll Tournament)
Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 7, Pleasant Valley 1
Denison-Schleswig 8, Logan-Magnolia 6
Don Bosco, Gilbertville 8, St. Albert, Council Bluffs 5
Dowling Catholic, West Des Moines 7, Bishop Heelan Catholic, Sioux City 0
Glenwood 4, Clear Lake 2
Hudson 19, Cardinal, Eldon 13
Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 8, Coon Rapids-Bayard 4
Lewis Central 3, Mason City 2
Lewis Central 5, Ames 1
North Scott, Eldridge 14, Glenwood 0 (5 innings)
Orient-Macksburg 13, Southwest Valley 1
Sergeant Bluff-Luton 2, Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 0
Southwest Valley 18, Essex 3
Waukee 11, Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 3
West Monona, Onawa 2, Hinton 1 (CNOS Classic)
Winterset 5, Van Meter 4

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Florida scored 11 runs in the fourth inning to tie a College World Series record, and defeated Miami 15-3 on Saturday night, the Hurricanes’ most lopsided loss in their long and proud postseason history. The Gators’ outburst broke open a surprisingly sloppy game and ended with Florida having turned a 2-1 deficit into a 10-run lead on nine hits off Andrew Suarez and two relievers.

Florida (50-16) advanced to a Bracket 1 winners game against Virginia on Monday night. Miami (49-16) and Arkansas will play an elimination game that afternoon. Logan Shore (10-6) scattered seven hits and struck out six in five innings for the win. Suarez (9-2) took the loss in a 3 1/3-inning outing that matched his second shortest of the season.

ST. LOUIS (AP) – Call-up Tyler Lyons had a solid outing and Mark Reynolds hit the go-ahead homer in the fifth inning for the St. Louis Cardinals, who beat the Kansas City Royals for the second straight day, 3-2 on Saturday. Alex Gordon and Salvador Perez homered for the Royals, who took two of three from the Cardinals at home last month and will be trying to avoid a sweep in the finale.

Matt Carpenter and Jason Heyward each added an RBI for St. Louis, which is a major league-best 41-21 overall and 24-7 at home. The Cardinals used five relievers over the last four innings to hold a one-run lead with Trevor Rosenthal getting the last four outs for his league-leading 21st save in 22 chances.

The Royals’ eighth did not lack for dramatics. Heyward battled the sun to snare Kendrys Morales’ liner while falling on his backside and Rosenthal rallied from a 3-0 count to get Gordon on an infield popup with two on for the third out.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Kenny Towns hit a tiebreaking RBI double in the eighth inning after Daniel Pinero stole second and third base, and Virginia opened the College World Series with a 5-3 victory over Arkansas on Saturday. Ernie Clement added a run-scoring single in the ninth for Virginia (40-22), which scored all five of its runs with two outs. The Cavaliers, a No. 3 regional seed and the lowest seed to make it to Omaha, improved to 6-0 in the NCAA Tournament. Arkansas (40-24) tied it at 3 in the fifth on Andrew Benintendi’s nation-leading 20th home run.

The 7:20-a.m. Sportscast w/Ric Hanson.

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