As schools like Alabama, Texas, Georgia, Florida, and No. 1 overall seed Vanderbilt took one on the chin for the SEC this past weekend, one team needed just three wins at Plainsman Park to reach a Super Regional.

Following their comeback victory, NC State beat Stetson to face Auburn in a regional final, but the Tigers didn’t need any added drama bleeding into Monday. The Tigers took care of business, taking down the Wolfpack, 11-1.

For the first time in school history, Butch Thompson will be hosting a Super Regional next weekend, against No. 13 overall seed, Coastal Carolina.

It was scoreless through the first three innings before the Tigers scored in seven runs in the fourth. After taking an early 4-0 lead, junior outfielder Ike Irish crushed in a three-run homer to extend the Tigers lead to 7-0.

“Before the at-bat, I’d seen him throw a couple lefty-lefty changeups. Tried to rack my brain to see if I’d faced a lefty-lefty changeup before and I did at Texas A&M last year so that was in the back of my head,” Irish said postgame.

“I was just trying to take a fastball to left-center field, and he hung it. I did my job. I put a barrel on it, and it happened to get up.”

Auburn finished with ten total strikeouts as the Wolfpack was held to zero points through the first seven innings.

The Tigers scored three more runs in the fifth inning, taking a double-digit lead they won’t relinquish over the Wolfpack.

“The three teams were amazing here. Their head coaches, first class. The players. It’s not every regional that you get an opportunity to play each and every team, and we did,” Auburn coach Butch Thompson said.

“I thought our guys didn’t, maybe didn’t play perfect for three games, but I don’t think we trailed in this regional. They fought pretty hard. They were pretty connected and played a pretty solid three days for us.”

Cooper McMurray, Carson Myers, Bub Terrell and Irish were the Tigers named to the Auburn All-Regional team.

Terrell took home MVP honors after batting .727 with eight total RBIs.

“I mean, honestly, nothing right now because we got one goal in mind. I’ll probably think about it after the season’s over, but jobs not finished,” Terrell said.

Auburn will matchup up with Coastal Carolina in the super regional after defeating Eastern Carolina University 1-0 in the Conway regional final.

This will be the first matchup between the two programs since May 19, 2019, where Auburn won 1-0. Coastal enters the contest with an 51-11 overall record and has won 21 straight games.

“We are playing the hottest team in college baseball,” Thompson added. “They will be coming on in here super neat next weekend.”

“We’re down to one team that’s in our way of going back to Omaha. That’s the goal, the dream of every college baseball player. So, I think we’ve got to keep our head down and keep fighting for that consistency with our lineup.”

Jerry Humphrey III covers Auburn sports forAL.com. You can follow him on X at @Jerryhump3or email him at [email protected].