{"id":317175,"date":"2026-06-01T04:54:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/317175\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T04:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23","slug":"usc-baseball-dominates-texas-am-to-advance-to-regional-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/317175\/","title":{"rendered":"USC baseball dominates Texas A&M to advance to regional final"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

COLLEGE STATION, Texas\u00a0\u2014\u00a0On a night when the crowd at Blue Bell Park saw some of the most majestic home runs you\u2019ll see in college baseball, USC\u2019s Andrew Johnson<\/a> showed why pitching is still paramount Sunday.<\/p>\n

The sophomore right-hander delivered arguably the most important pitching performance of the season for USC<\/a>, beating Texas A&M 14-3<\/a> to propel the Trojans to a winner-take-all College Station Regional Final on Monday.<\/p>\n

After needing five pitchers in a rout over Texas State earlier in the day just to reach the regional final out of the losers\u2019 bracket, USC coach Andy Stankiewicz<\/a> rode Johnson on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Two nights after throwing 21 pitches over 1\u2154 innings, Johnson threw 124 pitches over 7\u2153 strong innings to beat the host Aggies (41-14) before a crowd of 6,934.<\/p>\n

Leading 11-2, Johnson retired the first batter in the top of the eighth inning before Nico Partida singled to right. Jake Duer followed with an RBI triple to right field, prompting a call to right-hander Rohan Kasanagottu.<\/p>\n

\"USC <\/p>\n

USC junior Kevin Takeuchi bats against Texas A&M in the NCAA regionals on Sunday.<\/p>\n

(Chris Mora \/ USC Athletics)<\/p>\n

Johnson (8-2) held the Aggies to three runs on nine hits and two home runs with one walk and four strikeouts.<\/p>\n

The Trojans have scored 48 runs over three wins since falling into the losers\u2019 bracket. They beat Lamar 19-6 on Saturday, and then they beat Texas State 15-4 on Sunday afternoon to advance to face the Aggies.<\/p>\n

Chris Hacopian gave the Aggies a 1-0 lead with a home run in the first. The Trojans countered with four runs in the bottom of the inning with Kevin Takeuchi\u2019s two-run single and Andrew Lamb\u2019s two-run double.<\/p>\n

Lamb greeted reliever Cooper Powell with a three-run home run over the right field bleachers in the third inning. Augie Lopez gave USC a 9-1 lead with a two-run home run in the fourth inning.<\/p>\n

Gavin Grahovac tagged Johnson for a monstrous solo home run to cut USC\u2019s lead to 9-2 in the fifth.<\/p>\n

Lamb, who singled in the fifth, added another two-run double in the ninth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE STATION, Texas\u00a0\u2014\u00a0On a night when the crowd at Blue Bell Park saw some of the most majestic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1114,36201,113843,113844,60177,90762,81007,113846,21461,35755,113847,27,3042,29,28,43409,113845,113229],"class_list":["post-317175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-lead","tag-aggie","tag-andrew-johnson","tag-andrew-lamb","tag-bracket","tag-home-run","tag-inning","tag-loser","tag-night","tag-regional-final","tag-right-field","tag-texas","tag-texas-am","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-trojans","tag-two-run","tag-usc-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}