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Coastal Carolina sweeps Auburn Super Regional with late comeback vs. Tigers

Danby: Daniel Hager06/07/25DanielHagerOn3
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Coastal Carolina Chanticleer's Blagen Pado (22) is greeted at the dugout after hitting a tyhree run home run against Auburn during NCAA Baseball Super Regonal action at Plainsman Park on the Auburn University campus in Auburn, Ala., on Friday June 6, 2025. | © Mickey Welsh / Advertiser / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Coastal Carolina officially became the first team to punch its ticket to the 2025 Men’s College World Series with a comeback 4-1 win over Auburn on Saturday. It will mark the Chanticleers’ first appearance in Omaha since 2016, when they won the National Championship.

The Super Regional loss will go down as extremely disappointing for Auburn, which was hosting the event for the first time in program history. The Tigers had not made the College World Series since 2022, and that drought will now continue this season.

13 SEC teams made the 2025 NCAA Tournament, but just three remain in the field (LSU, Arkansas and Tennessee). At the most, the conference will get just two teams to Omaha as Arkansas and Tennessee are playing in the Fayetteville Regional.

Coastal rides late home run to opening game win

The opening game in the Super Regional was a wild one, as the Chants and Tigers entered a near two hour long rain delay in the bottom of the sixth inning. Auburn, which was trailing 6-3 heading into the delay, came out of the delay swinging and tied the game up in the seventh inning. Center fielder Bristol Carter scored from second on a throwing error by Coastal left-handed pitcher Dominick Carbone, DH Lucas Steele drove in a run on a ground out and third baseman Eric Snow belted a game-tying solo home run.

The teams would head into extra innings, where Coastal catcher Caden Bodine propelled the Chanticleers to a 7-6 lead in the top of the 10th with a solo home run. Auburn’s Snow led off the bottom of the 10th with a single, but catcher Chase Fralick lined into a double play to end the game.

Auburn blows lead in seventh inning, falls in two games

With the Tigers now trailing 0-1 and on the brink of elimination, coach Butch Thompson‘s team came out on Saturday and took an early lead. Fralick gave Auburn a 1-0 lead with an RBI-single down the right field line, a lead it would keep until the bottom of the seventh inning.

Coastal threatened in many different spots, including when it loaded the bases with no outs in the fifth inning but was held scoreless. The Chanticleers finally broke through in the bottom of the seventh inning, as an RBI-single from third baseman Walker Mitchell tied the game at one. Disaster then struck for the Tigers once again, as left-handed pitcher Cade Fisher fielded a dribbler back to the mound but fired an errant throw to first, allowing Coastal’s Mitchell to score from second to take the lead.

The frame was capped off by Coastal’s Wells Sykes being plunked with the bases loaded, making it a 3-1 lead for the Chants. The lead was then extended to 4-1 with an RBI-single hit off the left field wall by Walker Mitchell in the bottom of the eighth inning.

Down to its final three outs, Auburn mustered just one hit in the top of the ninth and saw its season come to an end. The Tigers finished with 41 wins this season, its most since 2022 (43).

Coastal Carolina, riding a 23-game winning streak, will now await seven other programs in the Men’s College World Series, which begins on June 13.