UC Santa Barbara is shut out while Arizona gets a win in College World Series openers

Thomas Hatch threw a complete game, Garrett Benge singled in the only run in the fourth inning and Oklahoma State opened the College World Series with a 1-0 victory over UC Santa Barbara on Saturday.

Hatch extended his shutout streak to 26 innings with his fourth complete game and third shutout of the season.

The Cowboys (42-20) will play Monday against the winner of Saturday night’s game between Arizona and Miami. The Gauchos (42-19-1) will meet the Arizona-Miami loser Monday.

Hatch (9-2), a third-round draft pick of the Chicago Cubs, allowed five hits, walked one and struck out seven in his dazzling 112-pitch performance for the Cowboys, who are in the CWS for the first time since 1999.

Santa Barbara starter Shane Bieber (12-4) was just was just about as good as Hatch, limiting the Cowboys to six base hits.

Three of them came in succession in the fourth inning, though, and produced Oklahoma State’s only run. Corey Hassel singled to left, Donnie Walton to right and Benge through the middle to make it 1-0. Bieber escaped further damage when Conor Costello lined into a double play and Dustin Williams flew out.

Bieber, a fourth-round pick of the Cleveland Indians, walked none and struck out six.

The Gauchos rolled into their first CWS appearance off five straight NCAA Tournament wins, including the super-regional winner at No. 2 national seed Louisville on freshman Sam Cohen’s pinch walk-off grand slam last Sunday.

They couldn’t solve Hatch, who worked quick innings after throwing 39 pitches the first two innings.

The Gauchos threatened in the second. JJ Muno doubled into left center with one out for the first extra-base hit off Hatch in 16 innings, and Demspey Grover followed with a single past the glove of third baseman Garrett Benge. Hatch got Kyle Plantier to line out and struck out Josh Adams to end the inning.

Hatch retired 12 straight before Billy Fredrick’s pinch single with one out in the eighth, and then Ryan Clark grounded into a double play.

Arizona 5, Miami 1: Nathan Bannister matched his career high with 11 strikeouts in seven innings and Arizona capitalized on Miami starter Michael Mediavilla’s rocky first inning.

The Wildcats (45-21), in the CWS for the first time since winning the 2012 national title, will play Oklahoma State on Monday night in a Bracket 1 winners’ game. The No. 3-seeded Hurricanes (50-13) will face UC Santa Barbara in an elimination game that afternoon.

Mediavilla hit two of Arizona’s first five batters and issued a bases-loaded walk before Jared Oliva’s two-run single made it 3-0. Zach Gibbons’ two-run double in the fifth increased the lead to 5-1.

Bannister, who made his 13th straight start of at least six innings, confounded Miami batters mixing in his curveball with an upper 80s fastball.

Miami, which has come from behind to win 23 games, couldn’t sustain its offense against the Seattle Mariners’ 28th-round draft pick. The Hurricanes had runners in scoring position in the second, third, fourth, fifth and seventh innings against Bannister and again in the eighth against Cameron Ming but could push across just one run.

Bannister (12-2) struck out Edgar Michelangeli all three times he faced him. Michelangeli was the hero of Miami’s super-regional clinching win over Boston College for hitting a three-run homer and grand slam. Zach Collins, the No. 10 overall draft pick, struck out twice and was doubled off in the fifth when second baseman Cody Ramer caught a line drive and beat him back to the bag.

Bannister gave up eight hits and walked three. Ming pitched two innings of one-hit relief.

Mediavilla (11-2), who made three relief appearances at last year’s CWS, had his worst outing since he gave up eight runs in 1 2/3 innings against Duke on April 16.