OMAHA, Neb. (AP) 鈥� Jabe Boroff hit the tiebreaking double in a four-run seventh inning and Troy and its potent offense kept the program’s first College World Series appearance going with a 12-8 win over Mississippi in an elimination game Sunday.
The Trojans (39-31) erased a four-run deficit to post their 18th come-from-behind win of the season and advanced to another elimination game Tuesday against West Virginia (46-16), which on Sunday night.
鈥淚 know the city of Troy is absolutely loving this,鈥� said Boroff, among seven Alabama natives on the team. 鈥淲hat really means the most is everybody鈥檚 got our back and everybody wants to see us win.鈥�
Mississippi (41-23) went two-games-and-out in its first trip to Charles Schwab Field since winning the national championship in 2022. Southeastern Conference teams had won 13 straight against non-SEC opponents in the CWS before the Rebels lost to North Carolina and Troy.
Troy, which lost 7-5 to West Virginia on Friday, ramped up an offense that arrived in Omaha averaging 10.6 runs per game in the NCAA Tournament.
The conditions were perfect for the 3-hour, 54-minute offensive free-for-all 鈥� sunny, 70 degrees at first pitch and a 15-mph wind blowing out. The teams combined for 26 hits and six homers, second-most in a game at the 15-year-old stadium. It was the first time since 2001 at Rosenblatt Stadium that each team went deep three times.
鈥淐redit Troy for getting the big hit time and time again,鈥� Rebels coach Mike Bianco said. 鈥淵ou look at the back half of the game, we scored runs but we just couldn鈥檛 stop them.鈥�
Noah Thigpen (1-5) pitched five innings of relief for the win and JP Robertson (5-2) took the loss.
The Trojans gave up two runs in the first inning and were down 6-2 in the fourth after Brayden Randle and Collin Reuters launched two-run homers to almost the same spot in the right-field seats.
鈥淚 can say it jokingly now that we had to get on the guys after the first inning,鈥� Troy coach Skylar Meade said. 鈥淚 didn鈥檛 think we were ready to go. I hope there weren鈥檛 any hot mics. Might get in trouble on that. But you have to do what you have to do to produce results.鈥�
Troy’s Sean Darnell, who homered in the second inning, came up in the fifth with two outs and bases loaded. Hunter Elliott balked to bring in a run and Darnell singled in two more to cut it to 6-5.
Jimmy Janicki’s team-leading 21st homer tied it at 6 in the seventh and Boroff, after his two-run double, scored on Houston Markham’s base hit to put the Trojans up 9-6.
鈥淟osers stop when it gets tough, and that鈥檚 not what our guys do,鈥� Meade said. 鈥淎nd that鈥檚 why they鈥檙e getting everything they deserve right now and hopefully a lot more.鈥�
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This story has been corrected to show SEC teams had previously won 13 straight against non-SEC teams instead of 14.
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