COLLEGE STATION, Texas (Interstat) — Southern California pounded out 19 hits and scored in six of eight innings to rout Lamar 19-6 on Saturday evening in the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship playoff. The Trojans (44-16) erupted for five runs in the first inning, ignited by Adrian Lopez’s two-run homer and Andrew Lamb’s three-run blast. Walter Urbon added a grand slam in the fourth, and Lopez doubled and drove in another run. Isaac Cadena contributed a double and an RBI single. Southern California built a 12-0 lead before Lamar (34-27) scored five times in the fifth, but the Trojans answered with seven more runs over the sixth and seventh. Mason Edwards earned the victory on the mound. The Cardinals managed six hits, led by a two-run single from Taylor and a double from Wagoner. The Trojans advanced in the double-elimination bracket.