The Arizona Wildcats and Louisville Cardinals meet up in Omaha on Sunday with their NCAA Men’s College World Series hopes on the line in the first elimination game of the tournament. Both teams had high hopes coming into the Men’s College World Series, but found themselves on the losing end of a couple of tough battles.

Coastal Carolina is moving on at the College World Series with its win over Arizona on Friday, June 13. Here are the highlights from its win:

The Wildcats lost the opener of the College World Series in a game full of quirks — a balk, fan interference, hits batsmen, and what Arizona coach Chip Hale called

The CWS often boils down to manufactured runs. Arizona will have to hammer out four games worth of them just to make the championship series.

Coastal Carolina broke open a tied game with three runs in the eighth inning, Dominick Carbone shut down a threat by Arizona in the ninth and the Chanticleers opened the College World Series with a 7-

That move eventually led to three runs that gave CCU a 7-4 victory over Arizona before a Charles Schwab Field crowd of 24,058. Coastal will play the winner of Friday’s second Bracket 1 game between Oregon State and Louisville at 7 p.m. Sunday.

Six conferences and an independent will be represented at the College World Series. None were among the final eight in Omaha a year ago.