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COLLEGE BASEBALL

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Mark Redman struck out a career-high 14 as defending champion Oklahoma (42-14) earned a return trip to the World Series with a 3-1 victory over Auburn (50-13) at Oklahoma City before 15,379, the largest crowd to watch a regional game. . . . Will Duffie’s second triple of the game drove in two runs in the eighth inning and sent Clemson (54-12) to a 7-4 victory over Alabama (42-23) and into the World Series. . . . R.A. Dickey pitched an 11-inning complete game and Tennessee (52-14) scored twice in the 11th on a wild pitch and a hit batsman with the bases loaded to beat Oklahoma State (46-19), 3-1, at Knoxville, Tenn., and earn its first trip to the World Series since 1951. . . . Doug Mientkiewicz hit two homers and drove in five runs at Tallahassee, Fla., as Florida State (52-14) earned its seventh trip in 10 years to the World Series with a 13-1 rout of Mississippi (40-22).

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