OMAHA, Neb. — Troy’s Jabe Boroff hit the tiebreaking double in a four-run seventh inning, and the Trojans’ potent lineup kept the program’s first College World Series appearance going with a 12-8 win over Ole Miss in an elimination game Sunday at Charles Schwab Stadium Omaha.
The Sun Belt’s Trojans (39-31) erased a four-run deficit to post their 18th comeback win of the season and advanced to another elimination game Tuesday against No. 16 national seed West Virginia (46-16), which lost 5-2 to No. 5 North Carolina on Sunday night.
“I know the city of Troy is absolutely loving this,” said Boroff, among seven Alabama natives on the team. “What really means the most is everybody’s got our back and everybody wants to see us win.”
Ole Miss (41-23) went 0-2 in its first trip to Omaha since winning the national championship in 2022. Southeastern Conference teams had won 13 straight games against opponents from outside the league in the CWS before the Rebels lost to Atlantic Coast Conference member North Carolina and Troy.
Troy, which lost 7-5 to West Virginia in the tournament opener Friday, ramped up an offense that arrived in Omaha averaging 10.6 runs per game in the NCAA Division I tournament that began with a 64-team field before whittling to the final eight for the CWS.