OMAHA, Neb. - It was the worst possible inning at one of the worst possible times.

Florida State spent the first seven frame of Wednesday's elimination game against Texas Christian overcoming a slew of miscues - errors and suspect pitching chief among them - but it was the eighth inning that proved to be the Seminoles' undoing.

The Horned Frogs stunned FSU for eight runs in the eighth - all of them error assisted - and then held on for an 11-7 victory that sends the Seminoles out of the College World Series.

"This is a very humbling game," FSU head coach Mike Martin said. "Certainly (the amount of errors) was concerning, but I also felt like we were going to get out of that inning. We just didn't."

Florida State ends its season at 48-20. TCU (53-13) will face UCLA Friday at 4:30 p.m.

The Seminoles took a 7-3 advantage into the eighth, and when leadoff man Jantzen White reached on a Sherman Johnson error, it seemed mostly innocuous. Taylor Featherston followed that up with a single that put runners on the corners before Aaron Schults popped up to give reliever Geoff Parker his first out of the inning.

After working the next batter, Brance Rivera, to a 2-2 count, Parker felt a pop in his elbow, leading FSU coach Mike Martin to pull Parker from the game and go straight to closer Mike McGee.

McGee forced Rivera into a fielder's choice - a play that initially looked good to turn a double play - that scored a run, but also gave the Seminoles a crucial second out.

From there, a tense moment turned into a full-fledged disaster.

McGee walked a batter, gave up an RBI double, then walked one more to load the bases. After working TCU's cleanup hitter, Matt Curry, to full count, McGee gave up a grand-slam that propelled the Horned Frogs into the lead and left the Seminoles in disbelief.

McGee finished with five earned runs in just 1/3 innings of work, and picked up his first loss of the season. It was a cruel end for McGee, who more than any other Seminole played the hero's role throughout the season.

"Michael is the reason we're here," Martin said. "Michael made some very good pitches that were hit. I mean the 3-2 (pitch) the guy hit out of the ballpark was a slider. Michael has pitched great baseball for us all year."

Florida State loaded the bases in the bottom of the eight, but Sherman Johnson and McGee were both retired to end the threat. The Seminoles went down in order in the bottom of the ninth.
 

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Sherman Johnson
3-4, 3 R, 1 RBI, HR