The Super Regional continues today at 10 a.m (on ESPN). Should No. 8-ranked Wichita State (53-21) win today, the deciding game would be played Monday at a time to be determined.
It was the fourth complete game in the last four starts for Gorgen, who has three shutouts during that stretch.
In his last five appearances, including a scoreless inning of relief in the regional-clinching victory over Texas Monday, the first-team All-Big West Conference performer has allowed just one earned run and 20 hits in 37 innings.
He has struck out 29 during that stretch and walked 10. Gorgen helped the Anteaters get a huge leg up in their first Super Regional appearance by getting ahead of nearly every hitter he faced.
Of the 34 batters who stood in against him, Gorgen threw first-pitch strikes to 23. Of his career-high 141 pitches, 88 were strikes. He didn't allow a Wichita State leadoff batter to reach until the eighth inning and only three Shockers made it past second base.
Wichita State starter Aaron Shafer matched Gorgen zero-for-zero through seven, but having reached his pitch count, the projected future first-round draft pick gave way to the bullpen and the Anteaters capitalized.
Shockers' reliever Andy Womack got two quick outs in the eighth, but he then walked Cody Cipriano, who went to third on Matt Morris' bloop single to right field.
When Womack walked Bryan Petersen to load the bases, Wichita State Coach Gene Stephenson brought in senior Noah Krol, who has a team-leading 12 saves.
UCI freshman designated hitter Sean Madigan hit a comebacker on Krol's first pitch and the ball caromed off the mound, then his glove, then his body, back toward the third-base line. By the time Krol retrieved the ball, he had no play and Cipriano had plated the game's only run.
