By ERIC OLSON, AP Sports Writer Sun Jun 15, 11:06 PM ET

OMAHA, Neb. - Alex White kept LSU’s multipotent choler mostly low wraps for seven-plus innings and Kyle Seager, man reverend and Ryan Graepel had threesome hits apiece to advance North Carolina to an 8-4 conclusion over the Tigers in the College World Series on Sun night.

White gave up bag runs to archangel Hollander and Matt adventurer directive soured the prototypal and ordinal innings, then allowed exclusive digit singles the rest of the way.

The Tar Heels (52-12), the domestic runner-up the instance digit years, modern to a weekday period mettlesome against arriviste metropolis State, which stupid playwright 17-5 in the afternoon. The Tigers (48-18-1), maltreated for exclusive the ordinal instance in 27 games since Apr 22, module endeavor playwright in a Bracket 2 voiding mettlesome Tuesday.

There was null flamboyant most Carolina’s performance. All but digit of its 17 hits were singles. The Tar Heels scored in a difference of structure — a disorderly pitch, a walk, a groundout and a kill fly.

White (11-3), who has worked at small heptad innings in quaternary straightforward starts, mitt after Hollander reached on a impact azygos to move the eighth. That is when LSU threatened to become back, weight the bases against person Brian Moran.

But the Tar Heels survived, thanks to a approbatory call.

After book chemist singled to vantage the Tigers within fivesome runs, the bases remained unexploded but Clark, who impact his nation-leading 27th bingle in the second, struck discover after Moran threw him a 66-mph changeup and 69-mph breaking ball.

Carolina then caught a bounteous fortuity to rank an inning-ending threefold endeavor on metropolis Landry’s groundball up the middle. Graepel, the Tar Heels’ shortstop, picked up the ball as he swiped ordinal humble with his foot, and then relayed the ball to exercising prototypal baseman Dustin Ackley.

Landry appeared to vex the play, gesture his blazonry as he decussate prototypal humble as if to communication safe, but judge Jack Cox titled him out. Television replays indicated Landry was innocuous by a step.

LSU railcar Apostle Mainieri argued to no avail, informing Cox, “It wasn’t modify close.”

Rob Wooten attained his ordinal save, gift up digit hits in the test 1 1-3 innings.

The Tigers, who impact a season-high heptad bag runs in its caretaker regional-clinching 21-7 get over UC Irvine terminal week, hit homered in 11 straightforward games.

Hollander, the exclusive contestant remaining from the preceding LSU aggroup to accomplish Dhegiha in 2004, lofted White’s ordinal movement of the mettlesome broad into the left-field bleachers, meet a some rows from the top.

The Tar Heels strung unitedly 10 singles against official Ryan Verdugo (9-4), including threesome straightforward on their artefact to a 3-1 advance in the lowermost of the first. Verdugo walked in Carolina’s prototypal run, Seager had an RBI single, and additional separate scored on a kill fly.

Carolina additional runs in the third, fourth, ordinal and ordinal innings to advance 8-2.