NCAA baseball tournament: Auburn eliminates UCF with 6 solo homers

Time ran out on UCF baseball 's run in the Auburn Regional , three days that often felt like an eternity given the numerous weather-related delays at Plainsman Park.

Chase Fralick socked two of Auburn's six home runs , and the host Tigers — the No. 4 national seed — eliminated the Knights with a 9-3 victory on May 31. Storms in the area pushed back first pitch three hours, and there were two separate stoppages, totaling 50 minutes, within the first two innings.

Auburn (40-20) advanced to the regional final, where it must defeat fourth-seeded Milwaukee twice for a spot in supers.

UCF ended the season with a 32-23 record, highlighted by Andrew Williamson's three-homer game in Friday's win over NC State.

DeAmez Ross and Zak Skinner went deep for the Knights in Sunday's contest, and Roman Kimball notched a career-high seven strikeouts in 4⅓ innings. UCF came up one win short of its sixth regional final appearance in school history. It still has never advanced to supers.

Here are three takeaways from UCF's baseball finale for the 2026 season.

Two pitches in, DeAmez Ross gave UCF a jolt with a line-drive home run over the right-field wall off Auburn starter Alex Petrovic. Nearly half of the runs Petrovic has allowed this season have come in the first two innings.

Ross returned to the dish in the second with the bases loaded, and he legged out an infield single to plate Landon Moran and double the Knights' advantage.