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News Nuggets, 06.07.05
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Compiled from staff reports and electronic dispatches

TCU football television times falling into place

Game times have been set for Texas Christian's 2005 football season opener at Oklahoma and the Horned Frogs' home opener and Mountain West Conference debut against Utah.

TCU's game with the Sooners is set for noon Eastern Time on Saturday, Sept. 3, and will be regionally televised from Norman, OK, as part of the Big 12 package. It marks the eighth straight year the Frogs' first game of the season has been selected as a televised game.

TCU's home opener against Utah is set for 7:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, Sept. 15, and will be televised nationally on ESPN or ESPN2. The contest marks the inaugural MWC game for the Frogs, who will move to that league from Conference USA this summer.

Officials had announced previously that TCU's battle with Southern Methodist for the Iron Skillet will be televised by CSTV beginning at 9:30 p.m. ET on Saturday, Sept. 10. That game will be played at SMU.

Compiled from staff and TCU Athletics reports.

Region recaps involving C-USA, Carolinas teams

Tulane 7, Alabama 4

NEW ORLEANS — Micah Owings, who had a double and two home runs in Tulane's first two games in the New Orleans NCAA regional, took the pitching mound Monday night and allowed four runs and struck out six as the Green Wave beat Alabama 7-4.

Tulane (53-9), the top seed nationally, advanced to the super regional round after going undefeated in the regional and will face Rice for a spot in the College World Series.

Alabama (40-23) had lost to Tulane earlier in the regional. The Crimson Tide beat Louisiana-Lafayette in the losing bracket on Sunday to reach the championship round.

Georgia Tech 5, South Carolina 0

ATLANTA — Tim Gustafson pitched seven scoreless innings in the longest appearance of his college career, leading Georgia Tech past South Carolina 5-0 Monday night in the deciding game of the Atlanta Regional.

Matt Wieters and Jeremy Slayden hit back-to-back homers to highlight a three-run third. The Yellow Jackets (45-17), seeded No. 2 nationally, ended South Carolina's bid for a fourth straight trip to the College World Series.

Georgia Tech moves on to host Tennessee in the super regionals next weekend.

The teams were meeting for the third straight day. Georgia Tech routed the Gamecocks 10-2 on Saturday, but South Carolina (41-23) fought back for an 8-3 victory Sunday night that forced one more game.

Rice 5, LSU 4

BATON ROUGE — Greg Buchanan's run-scoring single in the top of the ninth-inning lifted Rice to a 5-4 victory over LSU on Monday and sent the Owls into the Super Regional round of the NCAA tournament.

Tyler Henley scored the eventual game-winning run after lining a one-out triple into right-centerfield that prompted LSU (40-22) to bring its infielders in for Buchanan's at-bat.

Rice (44-17) advanced to play Tulane, the winner of the New Orleans Regional. Ironically, the two schools will become brethren of sorts on July 1 when the Owls join the Green Wave in Conference USA.

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