ASU baseball advances in World Series
<p><a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/mtt/calhoun_kole00.html">K… Calhoun</a> had six RBI, including a grand slam in the fifth inning, to lead the ASU baseball team to a 12-5 win over North Carolina in an elimination game of the College World Series on Thursday. A crowd of 25,001 fans at Rosenblatt Stadium saw the Sun Devils improve to 51-13 on the season with the win. They will face Texas on Friday.</p><separator></separator><a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/mtt/calhoun_kole00.html"><… win was also the 1,000th career victory for head coach <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/mtt/murphy_pat00.html">Pat Murphy</a>. Murphy is the 12th active coach with 1,000 victories, 629 of which have come at Arizona State.</p><separator></separator><p>Calhoun was the leader at the plate again for the Sun Devils, continuing his terrific play in this College World Series with a game-tying grand slam in the fifth and a go-ahead two-run double in the seventh. He is 6-for-12 with three home runs and 10 RBI, and he has been on base nine times in 15 plate appearances in the three games of the CWS thus far.</p><separator></separator><p>Calhoun became the fourth Sun Devil to hit a grand slam at Omaha's Rosenblatt Stadium, joining Sal Bando (1965), Bob Horner (1978) and <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/mtt/collins_michael00.html… Collins</a> (1998).</p><separator></separator><p>North Carolina scored once in the ninth, but it was far from enough, as ASU eliminated the Tar Heels.</p><separator></separator><p>The Sun Devils will now face Texas at 6 p.m., CT on June 19. ASU will need to beat the Longhorns to stay alive in the 2009 College World Series.</p>