Santa Barbara Gets Ousted by Notre Dame

Brian Stavisky’s home run in the top of the 10th inning--his second of the game--gave Notre Dame an 11-10 victory over UC Santa Barbara Sunday in an NCAA baseball regional at South Bend, Ind.

The loss eliminated Santa Barbara (40-17) in the regional. Notre Dame (48-12-1) must beat Florida International (42-18) twice today to advance to a super-regional against USC (42-17).

Earlier Sunday, Jed Stringham hit a home run that barely stayed inside the right-field foul pole in the ninth inning to give Santa Barbara a 13-12 victory over Wisconsin Milwaukee (39-18). The Gauchos led 12-5 when play was suspended in the fifth inning Saturday because of rain.

In other regionals:

* Ryan Garko’s two-run single in the eighth inning was decisive as Stanford (46-15) beat Texas, 4-3, at Stanford to advance to a super-regional against South Carolina (48-18).

Earlier, Texas (36-25) lost to Stanford, 10-9, when Carlos Quetin singled in the winning run with two out in the 10th inning.

* South Carolina defeated Central Florida (51-14) twice, 9-7 and 5-2, at Columbia, S.C.

* Mississippi State (39-22) scored nine runs in the first inning of a 14-4 victory over Kent State (32-20) at Columbus, Ohio, and advanced to a super-regional against Cal State Fullerton (44-16).

* Kevin Brown had three homers and 10 RBIs for Miami (47-12) in a 16-8 victory over Stetson at Coral Gables, Fla. Brown broke Mark Kotsay’s NCAA regional record of nine RBIs set in 1996 for Cal State Fullerton.

Miami advanced to a super-regional against Clemson (41-20)--an 8-2 winner over Seton Hall (34-23-1) at Clemson, S.C.

* Louisiana State (43-20-1) got two home runs each from Todd Linden and Zeph Zinsman in a 14-9 victory over Virginia Commonwealth (41-19) at Baton Rouge, La., to advance to a super-regional against Tulane (53-10), a 9-8 winner over Oklahoma State (42-22) at New Orleans.

* Nebraska (48-14) scored six runs in the ninth inning at Lincoln, Neb., in a 14-10 victory over Rutgers (42-17) and advanced to a super-regional against the winner of today’s game between Rice (46-18) and Baylor (37-23) at Houston.

* Tennessee (44-18), with a 6-3 victory over Wake Forest (44-18) at Knoxville, Tenn., advanced to a super-regional against East Carolina (47-11), a 7-3 winner over Winthrop (48-16-1) at Wilson, N.C.

* Florida State (46-17) was a 9-6 winner over Auburn (37-21) at Tallahassee, Fla., and reached a super-regional against Georgia (45-19), which had to defeat Coastal Carolina (42-20) twice Sunday, 9-3 and 8-7.