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Arnold, bullpen dominate Oregon State bats; Florida State forces Game 3 of Super Regional

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This time the bullpen got it done.

This time the lead was preserved.

And this time, the Florida State baseball team fought on in Corvallis to extend its season.

The No. 9 seed Seminoles used a terrific start from Jamie Arnold and then lights-out relief from Peyton Prescott to knock off the No. 8 seeded Oregon State Beavers and advance to a winner-take-all Super Regional Game 3 at 9 p.m. ET on Sunday night in Corvallis.

With Florida State holding a 2-1 lead, Prescott came on with a runner on first and nobody out in the top of the eighth. He struck out the first batter he faced – with a fastball that was registered as high as 100 miles per hour – and then induced a 4-6-3 double play to end the inning.

The Seminoles then scored an insurance run in the bottom of the eighth when Jaxson West worked a bases-loaded walk to score Max Williams, who had started the inning with a single.

And Prescott came back out in the ninth, walked the leadoff hitter and then struck out the next three batters to end the game. The last pitch was a 99-mile-per-hour fastball that froze Oregon State’s Jacob Krieg to end the game. Krieg was the hitter who lined the two-run, game-tying single off Joe Charles in the bottom of the ninth on Friday to send the game into extra innings, where the Beavers won an inning later.

Prescott made sure there were no such late-game heroics on Saturday night.

And he was in that position because Arnold was elite.

The left-handed starter who was coming off a 119-pitch, 13-strikeout effort against Mississippi State in the Tallahassee Regional last weekend, allowed a run in the first on a two-out, soft-line-drive RBI single to left and then completely shut down the Beavers the rest of the way.

He threw 6.2 innings and allowed six hits (only one hit hard) and one run to go along with one walk and nine strikeouts. He was relieved in the seventh by Maison Martinez, who struck out Oregon State star Aiva Arquette with a runner on first and two outs to end the inning.

Oregon State never got a runner to third base after the first inning, and after Arnold threw 29 pitches in the first inning, he threw 84 over the next 5.2 innings to keep the Seminoles in the game and set it up for the bullpen.

A game that, thanks to some timely hitting, Florida State won.

Williams tied the game with a two-out RBI single to left field in the third that scored West. And then Gage Harrelson came through with his biggest hit of the postseason, a two-out, two-strike line drive single to left that scored James Hankerson, who got to first on a walk and then to second on a hit from West.

The three runs weren’t a lot. But they wound up being enough for the Seminoles, who struck out 14 Oregon State batters in the win. And now Florida State will play for a spot in Omaha on Sunday with Wes Mendes on the mound.

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