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(AP) – To Florida State’s Mike McGee, pitching is hard work and hitting home runs is fun. He mixed business and pleasure Monday, leading the Seminoles to an 8-5 victory over Florida in a College World Series elimination game.

McGee hit a tie-breaking three-run homer in the third inning, laid down a squeeze bunt in the fourth and moved in from left field to pick up the save after Florida made things interesting in the ninth. “Pitching, it’s great to end the game and get the save. I like to be in control,” McGee said. “But hitting the home run is the best feeling there is.”

The Seminoles (48-19) will play TCU in an elimination game Wednesday night. The Horned Frogs lost 6-3 to UCLA on Monday.

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(AP) – Despite having been UCLA’s season-long No. 2 starter before Saturday night, Trevor Bauer looked every bit a No. 1 when given the ball for the Bruins’ College World Series opener.

John Savage played a hunch by going with Bauer over Gerrit Cole, and the UCLA coach looked smart after the game.

The sophomore right-hander struck out 11 in strong seven innings and set the UCLA season record, and the Bruins cranked up their offense to beat Florida 11-3 for the program’s first win in Omaha.

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Usually most player has to wait until he’s on his death bed till he gets a bronze statue of himself, but then again Tim Tebow isn’t most players. So Florida’s Superman will be getting a statue built outside of Ben Hill Griffin Stadium along with Gator legends Danny Wuerffel and Steve Spurrier (the schools three Heisman winners) early next year. How much you want a bet that Tebow’s statue will be bigger than everyone else’s.

via OrlandoSentinel

Game Two: (1) Florida vs (1) UCLA – Saturday 7:00pm ET
In a hilarious turn of events UCLA will be without one of their star players, 2nd baseman Tyler Rahmatulla, who broke his wrist in the dogpile after their win over CS Fullerton in the Super Regionals. But seriously the dude was important…he started all 61 games for the Bruins and was hitting .328 with 19 doubles, seven homers and 45 RBI’s. His bat will surely be missed against a Florida team that’s 5-0 this post season and have been scoring more runs a game than every other team in the CWS, just about nine runs a game.

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Forget being the fastest man in college football, Florida’s Jeff Demps is beyond that. He is now the fastest man in all of college sports after winning the 100 meter championship this weekend with a time of 9.96 seconds, easily beating runner-up Rondell Sorrillo (10.09) of Kentucky.

Also taking home a title from the Gator football was their other RB Chris Rainy who was on the 4 x 100 meter relay team with Demps, that won first place with a time of 38.93. Video embedded below…Rainy is the one running the second leg, Demps is the anchor.

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Florida WR – Frankie Hammond: Here goes the first Florida football player arrested in the 2010-11 season, but I doubt he’ll be the last. Hammond here was arrested after police caught him not only going 45 miles per hour in a 20 mph zone and swerving on Gale Lemerand Drive on the UF campus at 2:09 am Sunday, but with two open bottles of Crown Royal in his car. Only 20 years old police then arrested him DUI and liquor possession after he blew 0.188 and 0.191…FYI: the limit is 0.08

Arkansas FB – Van Stumon: Sounds like this guy was trying to get out his car before police got him. A police report said Stumon was pulled over about 2:20 am on Saturday after officers saw him make an improper turn, drive over a curb into a parking lot and park his car erratically. And the thing is he wasn’t even that drunk, he only blew a 0.10 percent on his BAT. O, well. He was charged with DWI, careless driving, making an improper U-turn and making an improper lane change.

(1) CS Fullerton vs (1) UCLA
The Bruins had little trouble knocking off last year champs LSU before finishing off UC Irvine in the Los Angeles Regional final. CS Fullerton on the other hand took the long road to the Super Regionals, coming from the losers bracket to and playing five games before knocking off the four seed Minnesota. The edge in this one definitely goes to the Bruins because of their lights out pitching staff that leads the NCAA in strikeouts a game (10) and is second in ERA (2.94) and hits allowed a game (7). Pitchers Gerrit Cole, Trevor Bauer and Rob Rasmussen should be able to lead the Bruins to the CWS in two games.

(1) Miami vs (1) Florida
We saw this very same series earlier on in the season and Florida won that one two games to one. This time around I predict much of the same. Florida has been absolutely crushing the ball lately, scoring 33 runs in three games in the opening round and their pitching has been just as stellar only allowing five runs. The Hurricanes who struggled through their regional are just going to be overmatched on both sides of the ball.