College World Series 2023: Bracket, schedule and TV info for Thursday, June 22

LSU and Wake Forest will return to the diamond Thursday night to determine which team will meet Florida this weekend to play for the College World Series championship.

LSU staved off elimination for a second time, and now the Tigers are right where they expected to be all along.

Cade Beloso hit a go-ahead 3-run home run, Griffin Herring pitched 4 2/3 innings of shutout relief in his longest outing and LSU forced a second-bracket final with a 5-2 victory over No. 1 national seed Wake Forest on Wednesday night.

Earlier Wednesday, Florida continued its white-knuckle winning ways with a heart thumper against TCU. The Gators gave up the lead,  then scored a go-ahead run, and then secured the final out at the warning track some 407 feet from home plate. And Mikey Henderson had an emotional reaction to making the catch.

Meanwhile, Connor O’Gara praised Jay Johnson’s pitching decision regarding Paul Skenes to put the Tigers in a seemingly strong position on Thursday night. Alex Hickey noted that Skenes is no ordinary pitcher. He is the boogeyman.

Here is the updated schedule and bracket for Thursday, June 22:
All times ET

Bracket 1
Friday, June 16

Game 1: Oral Roberts 6, TCU 5
Game 2: Florida 6, Virginia 5

Sunday, June 18

Game 5 (Elimination Bracket): TCU 4, Virginia 3
Game 6 (Winners’ Bracket): Florida 5, Oral Roberts 4

Tuesday, June 20

Game 9 (Elimination Game): TCU 6, Oral Roberts 1

Wednesday, June 21

Game 11 (Bracket Final): Florida 3, TCU 2

Bracket 2
Saturday, June 17

Game 3: Wake Forest 3, Stanford 2
Game 4: LSU 6, Tennessee 3

Monday, June 19

Game 7 (Elimination Bracket): Tennesse 6, Stanford 4
Game 8 (Winners’ Bracket): Wake Forest 3, LSU 2

Tuesday, June 20

Game 10 (Elimination Bracket): LSU 5, Tennessee 0

Wednesday, June 21

Game 12 (Bracket Final): LSU 5, Wake Forest 2

Thursday, June 22

Bracket 2: Wake Forest vs. LSU | 7 pm, ESPN2

CWS Finals

Game 1: Saturday, June 24 | 7 pm, ESPN
Game 2: Sunday, June 25 | 3 pm, ESPN
Game 3 (If Necessary): Monday, June 26 | 7 pm, ESPN

Keith Farner

A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.