Arkansas defeated Murray State, 3-0, in an elimination game thanks to Gage Wood's historic no-no. But the Razorbacks will have to wait to find out their opponent, as the winners' bracket game between UCLA and LSU was suspended after three innings and will resume at 11 a.m. ET on Tuesday, June 17.

Murray State took a chance on a 33-year-old junior college assistant. Seven years later, Skirka has the Racers on the sport's biggest stage.

The stands at Charles Schwab Field were emptying, and Murray State players wanted to savor their program’s first College World Series as long as they could.

In a game pitting the event’s two highest-ranked teams against one another, No. 6 LSU had its way with No. 3 Arkansas in a 4-1 victory on June 14. The Tigers were carried by a three-run second inning and a stellar outing from starting pitcher Kade Anderson,

AJ Salgado hits a two-run double and Michael Barnett holds Murray State to three hits and a run in UCLA's 6-4 win at the Men's College World Series.

No. 15 national seed UCLA (48-16) advances to face the winner between No. 3 Arkansas and No. 6 LSU on Monday at 6 p.m. Four seed Murray State (44-16) — ostensibly the biggest CWS long shot since Stony Brook 13 years earlier — faces elimination at 1 p.m. Monday against the other heavyweight SEC club.

The Murray State Racers are about to be embraced as the College World Series’ lovable underdogs by local fans looking to adopt a team for the week.

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