No. 16 NC State baseball (33-17) is one of the final 16 teams standing in the NCAA Tournament, as it defeated No. 16 Louisiana Tech (42-20), 14-7, on Sunday night at J.C. Love Field at Pat Patterson Stadium in Ruston, La. With the win, the Wolfpack wins the NCAA Ruston Regional and advances to the NCAA Super Regional round.

This is the Wolfpack's fifth time advancing to the supers, and is its first since 2013. Additionally, Sunday's game marks the most runs ever scored in an NCAA Regional final and the third-most in program history in the NCAA Tournament.

NC State trailed early in the contest, which was its first time in the regional doing so, as Louisiana Tech's Parker Bates belted a two-run home run over the right field wall to give his team the early lead in the first.

Bates homered once again in his second at-bat of the game with a runner on base, giving the Bulldogs a 4-0 lead in the third inning. NC State got on the board in its half of the third, cutting its deficit to 4-2 when Terrell Tatum drove in a pair of runs on a bases-loaded two-out single to right field.

Luca Tresh pulled the Pack within one with his 14th home run of the year in the fourth inning, a leadoff solo shot to center field.

Bates delivered his fifth RBI of the game in the fifth inning when he drove in Hunter Wells with a triple to left center, making the score 5-3, but Jonny Butler tallied the game-tying hit in the bottom frame when he laced a single to right field with runners in scoring position.

Four at-bats later, Devonte Brown hit a grand slam to right field, his second of the year, to give the Pack a 9-5 lead. It was his 12th homer of the year and third of the regional.

In the sixth, NC State plated four more runs on Jose Torres's bases-loaded two-run double, Tresh's RBI groundout and Brown's sac fly to make it 13-5.

Hunter Wells blasted the fifth home run of the game in the seventh, a two-run shot to left field, to cut into Tech's deficit, but NC State continued to hold its commanding lead as Austin Murr drove in a run via a bases-loaded infield single in the eighth.

Starting pitcher Matt Willadsen (5-3) tossed six complete innings, yielding just six hits on his five earned runs surrendered, while Chris Villaman recorded his second save of the season as he tossed the final three innings of the game. The two pitchers combined for 10 strikeouts on the night.

Murr (3-for-6), McDonough (3-for-5), Tatum (3-for-5), J.T. Jarrett (3-for-4), Butler (2-for-4) and Brown (2-for-4) tallied 16 of the team's 19 hits in the contest, while Brown drove in a team-high five RBIs.

NC State will next face the winner of the NCAA Fayetteville Regional June 11-14 in a three-game NCAA Super Regional series.