OMAHA, Neb. - Andrew Darr's RBI double in the 12th inning Wednesday lifted Arkansas to a 4-3 victory that eliminated Virginia from the College World Series.

Down to its last strike in the ninth, the Razorbacks got a two-run homer from Brett Eibner to tie the game. Virginia had the winning run on third base in the ninth, 10th, 11th and 12th innings but couldn't come up with a hit to finish off Arkansas.

The win, before 21,383 at Rosenblatt Stadium, moved Arkansas (41-23) into Friday's 1 p.m. Bracket One championship game against Louisiana State. Virginia ended its season 49-15-1.

Jarrod McKinney started the winning rally in the 12th against losing pitcher Andrew Carraway with a single and stole second early in what turned into a 10-pitch at-bat for Darr. He drilled the last one down the third-base line to score McKinney.

Virginia threatened in the bottom of the 12th as Steven Proscia opened the inning with a double. Jarrett Parker tried unsuccessfully to advance Proscia, fouling off two bunt attempts. Proscia then stole third as Parker went down swinging.

Keuchel then struck out John Hicks and got Franco Valdes swinging at a low third strike to finish off the four-hour, 46-minute contest. Virginia was one strike away from advancing to a first-round rematch against LSU when Zack Cox singled up the middle on a one-ball, two-strike pitch. Three pitches later, Brett Eibner drove a pitch from Kevin Arico halfway up the bleachers in left field to tie the game.

Arkansas' next two hitters singled before Andrew Carraway came on to end the threat by getting Chase Leavitt to hit into a force play.

The Razorbacks wiggled out of trouble in the bottom of the ninth after the Cavaliers loaded the bases with one out. Hicks led off the inning with a single and moved to second on a throwing error by pitcher Steven Richards on Valdes' bunt.
Keith Werman followed with a sacrifice to advance the runners, and Arkansas pitcher Dallas Keuchel intentionally walked Tyler Cannon to load the bases. That brought Danny Hultzen to the plate, and Keuchel's first three pitches were balls.

He came back to throw a strike before Hultzen scorched a one-hopper right at Arkansas shortstop Tim Carver. He knocked the ball down, then after momentarily bobbling it, started a double play that sent the game into extra innings.

The Cavaliers threatened again in the 10th when Shane Halley opened the inning by reaching second on an error by Cox, the Arkansas third baseman. Grovatt's infield out failed to advance Halley, but he made it to third when Proscia singled up the middle.

Proscia made it to second on a wild pitch but Keuchel worked out of the jam by striking out Parker and Hicks.
Virginia again loaded the bases with two outs in the 11th before Keuchel got Grovatt to ground out. Valdes opened the inning with a single and moved to second on a sacrifice. After Cannon was intentionally walked and Hultzen popped up, pinch-hitter Jared King drew a walk to load the bases.

Keuchel then came up with another inning-ending pitch retiring Grovatt.

In addition to failing to lock up the win in the ninth, Virginia ran itself out of scoring possibilities in the fifth and eighth innings. The Cavaliers did score twice in the fifth, the first coming when Hicks led off the inning with his eighth homer of the season.

John Barr singled with one out and Cannon followed with a shot down the right-field line. Barr wound up at third but Cannon was thrown out trying to stretch the hit into a double. That proved costly as Hultzen followed with a double that would have scored two runs but Virginia had to settle for a 2-0 lead.

The Cavaliers gave up an unearned run in the seventh but stretched their lead to 3-1 in the eighth Dan Grovatt homered with two outs. Steven Proscia followed with a single and Jarrett Parker drilled a double to left-center field.

Instead of having runners at second and third, the Cavaliers' potential big inning ended when Proscia rounded the bag too far, then got caught in a rundown.

Hultzen, making his second start of the CWS, blanked the Razorbacks for the first six innings before Arkansas used a one-out fielding error by Proscia, Virginia's third baseman, and a double by Cox to get him out of the game.

Tyler Wilson relieved and Eibner greeted him with a fly ball to center that scored Bo Bigham. Cox advanced to third on the play but Wilson stranded him by getting James McCann to ground out.