Texas Advances to Final

Jeff Ontiveros and Dustin Majewski homered for Texas, which clinched a spot in the College World Series championship game by beating Stanford, 6-5, on Thursday night.

Jesen Merle (3-3) held Stanford to one hit in four innings of relief and Huston Street picked up his third save of the series for the Longhorns, who will play for the title on Saturday against the winner of today’s game between South Carolina and Clemson.

Texas (56-15) advanced to the final game for the first time since 1989, when it lost to Wichita State. The Longhorns are in their 29th CWS and have four national titles, the last in 1983.

Stanford had a chance to tie it in the ninth when Sam Fuld led off with a bunt single, but Street got Ryan Garko to fly out to center and forced Jason Cooper to ground into a double play to end the game. Street, a freshman, has 13 saves this season.

Chris O’Riordan had two hits and drove in two runs and Chris Carter hit a leadoff homer for Stanford (47-18), which lost in the last two title games.

The Longhorns beat the Cardinal, 8-7, on Monday.

Majewski’s solo shot off Jeremy Guthrie (13-2) to right-center field broke a 5-5 tie in the seventh and held up as the winning run. It was Texas’ 67th homer, tying the school record set in 1988.

Stanford tied the score, 5-5, in the fifth on a hit batter, a double by Cooper and O’Riordan’s run-scoring single. O’Riordan and Scott Dragicevich had RBI singles in the first.

After falling behind, 3-0, in the first, Texas got two runs after a two-out error in the second and took the lead with a three-run fifth.