A couple things ...

-- Here are two more opinion pieces about the baseball coaching vacancies at Oregon and Oregon State.

The R-G’s Austin Meek: Oregon Ducks, Oregon State Beavers both at baseball crossroads.

The G-T’s Steve Gress: Hiring a baseball coach will be a tough call for Oregon State AD Scott Barnes, but the best bet is to hire from within.

-- UCLA, the College Baseball Tournament’s overall No. 1 seed, staved off an ignominious sweep at Michigan’s hands in the Super Regional yesterday in 12 innings.

Los Angeles Daily News columnist Mark Whicker was on the scene. He writes the depleted pitching staffs for both teams will be critical in the deciding Game 3.

More on the UCLA-Michigan game and the Super Regionals in the links below:

UCLA Bruins get lucky to stagger past Michigan in 12 innings and stay alive in the Super Regionals.

Late UCLA rally keeps the Bruins alive.

Mississippi State stops Stanford 6-2 to go up 1-0 in their Super Regional.

Stanford can’t recover from six unanswered runs.

Mississippi State pitcher is taken to the hospital during the Bulldogs’ Super Regional game with Stanford.

Pitcher Kumar Rocker saves Vanderbilt’s year with a no-hit, 19 strikeout performance.

Louisville sweeps East Carolina to reach the College World Series.

Live updates from the Super Regionals from D1Baseball.com.

Baseball America’s Super Regional Headquarters.

-- Ken Goe

kgoe@oregonian.com | @KenGoe

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