OMAHA, Neb. - Carson Kainer doubled in the go-ahead run and Huston Street pitched three innings of one-run relief to help Texas advance to the College World Series final with a 7-6 comeback victory over Georgia on Wednesday.
The Longhorns (58-13) now await either South Carolina or Cal State Fullerton in the best-of-three championship series that starts Saturday. Those teams meet later Wednesday.
Texas will be playing for its sixth national title and second in three years.
Georgia (45-23) was eliminated after losing to Texas for the second time in the Series.
Street (6-1) prevailed in a matchup against another top reliever, Will Startup. Street allowed four hits in three innings, throwing out the final two Georgia batters on comebackers to the mound.
The Longhorns, who trailed 5-0 in the third inning, used a pair of doubles to take the lead in the seventh. Dooley Prince led off with his two-base hit, chasing reliever Matt Woods (2-3).
Startup, the All-Southeastern Conference closer, came on and got pinch hitter J.D. Reininger to ground out before Kainer doubled down the left-field line for his first hit in 10 CWS at-bats.
Georgia jumped on Texas starter Justin Simmons in the third inning, sending 10 batters to the plate and scoring five runs, only one earned.
Taylor Teagarden hit a two-run homer in the Longhorns' three-run third off Georgia starter Johnny Dobbs, who was making his first start since April 21 after serving mostly as a setup man for Startup.
Seth Johnston's homer off reliever Bo Lanier leading off the fifth got the Longhorns to 5-4, and Texas went ahead 6-5 in the sixth when David Maroul homered and Johnston hit an RBI single.
Georgia tied it 6-6 against Street, who was the CWS' Most Outstanding Player as a freshman in 2002.
Johnston, the Longhorns' second baseman, lost Josh Morris' fly ball in the sun in short right field to start the seventh. After Morris was bunted over to second, he came home on a Marshall Szabo single to end Street's consecutive scoreless innings streak at 10.