LSU win sets up World Series date with Tar Heels

Blake Dean went 5-for-5 and drove in 3 runs and Ryan Schimpf went 4-for-5 and drove in five as LSU beat UC Irvine 21-7 on Monday night in the 2008 NCAA super regional to earn a trip to the College World Series in Omaha, Neb.

LSU will take on North Carolina (51-12) in the opening round of the CWS on Sunday.

After losing the first super regional game to snap a 23-game nation's best winning streak, LSU won the next two in the best-of-three series.

Dean and Schimpf were part of a 24-hit, 7-home run attack for the Tigers.

LSU scored in all but two innings and did not need to take the field in the ninth. The Tigers had six runs in the first inning on five hits and seven runs in the fifth on five hits.

Anteaters' starting pitcher Bryce Stowell (8-3) left the game with two outs and one on in the first inning. By that time he had faced nine batters, walked one, allowed one to advance on a wild pitch, given up three home runs and LSU was up 6-0.

LSU third baseman Michael Hollander led off the bottom of the first with a walk, advanced to second on a wild pitch, and went to third on Jared Mitchell's single. Then Stowell tried to pick Mitchell off, but the first base umpire ruled that he balked, sending Mitchell to second and Hollander home to put the Tigers up 1-0.

Then LSU went to the long ball.

Dean blasted a 2-run homer, and Matt Clark and Micah Gibbs batting in the next two spots each knocked one out - all clearing the left field wall.

The Tigers sent 11 men to the plate in the fifth inning - the second time in the game LSU batted around, scoring 7 runs on 5 hits. The Anteaters' struggling pitchers also walked two and hit a batter.

Schimpf drove in three of the seven runs in the inning with two hits, beginning with a leadoff home run.

Buzzy Haydell knocked one out for LSU in the eighth to make it 20-7.

UC Irvine used seven pitchers in an unsuccessful effort to slow down the LSU bats. Johnny Dishon and Schimpf both homered in the seventh for LSU.

UC Irvine was trying to get to the College World Series fora second consecutive season.

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