OMAHA, Neb. -- In a College World Series marked by long games and offensive outbursts, Stanford and California State-Fullerton tried something different -- a pitcher's duel.

	Stanford players greet Ryan Garko, center, after his seventh-inning home run tied the game, enabling the Cardinal to win in the 10th inning.

Chris O'Riordan's go-ahead run-scoring single in the 10th inning helped lead Stanford to a hard-fought 5-2 victory in the College World Series on Sunday night.

"I thought this was a fantastic college baseball game," Cardinal coach Mark Marquess said. "There had been talk about the length of the games and the amount of runs, but this was just a great college baseball at the premier place for college baseball."

Brian Hall, who robbed Mike Rouse of extra bases with an impressive running catch in the ninth to send the game to the 10th tied at 1, led off with a single off Chad Cordero (3-4) and moved to second on a wild pitch.

Scott Dragicevich popped up a bunt, and first baseman Aaron Rifkin, running toward home on the play, dived for the ball halfway down the line. The ball hit off Rifkin's glove in fair territory, and Hall beat catcher Brett Kay's throw to third to put runners on first and third and no outs.

"We finally got a break on the bunt when it kicked off him," Marquess said.

Hall, who came in as a defensive replacement in the eighth, scored on O'Riordan's single through the right side. Sam Fuld followed with a two-run triple off Mike Nunez, and Ryan Garko's sacrifice fly made it 5-1.

"I just wanted to go up there and have a good swing," O'Riordan said. "I didn't get a good piece of that ball, but I hit it in the right spot and it went through."

J.D. Willcox (5-0) allowed one run in 1 2/3 relief innings for his second victory of the College World Series. He gave up an run-scoring single to David Bacani in the 10th before Jeff Bruksch got the last out for his second save of the series.

Stanford (50-16), which won 50 games for the third consecutive season, advanced to the winners' bracket and won't play again until Wednesday night. Cal State-Fullerton (47-17), the top seed in the NCAA tournament, will play Tulane in an elimination game Tuesday. The Green Wave beat Nebraska 6-5 earlier Sunday to end the Huskers' season.

Stanford, which improved to 5-2 in extra innings this season, has won seven of its past eight.

Stanford starter Mike Gosling and Cal State-Fullerton's Kirk Saarloos were masterful in a College World Series that has already set numerous offensive and length-of-game records.

Gosling had allowed just two hits, a single to Kay in the second and Louie Lamoure's solo homer in the fifth, before getting into trouble in the eighth.

Gosling, who allowed one run, struck out eight and walked four in 7 2/3 innings, got two quick outs before walking Bacani and Robert Guzman. Willcox came in and got Jason Corapci to ground out to end the threat.

"The difference today was that I avoided the big inning," Gosling said. "Something I concentrated on this week was avoiding the big inning. I had some good defensive plays and had some balls hit right at guys, too."

The Titans got out of a jam in the ninth. Saarloos hit O'Riordan with a pitch and Fuld sacrificed him to second. Cordero, who allowed three runs on four hits in one inning, came in and hit Garko with a pitch and struck out Carlos Quentin before Jonny Ash singled to load the bases. But Cordero got Andy Topham to fly out to end the inning.

Saarloos allowed one run, five hits. struck out three and walked none in 8 1/3 innings. He has walked just three in his last 37 1/3 innings.

The Titans broke through in the fifth on Lamoure's homer that drifted over the left-field wall just out of reach of Jason Cooper to give Cal State-Fullerton a 1-0 lead.

Garko tied it with a leadoff homer off Saarloos in the seventh.

"He made one bad pitch -- a high changeup to Garko," Titans coach George Horton said. "He pitched well enough to win, but he kind of ran out of gas. You can't pitch forever, though, and that's the type of performance we've gotten from him his entire career."