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OMAHA, Nebraska | Game 2 of the College World Series best-of-three championship series unravelled quickly for Coastal Carolina on Sunday.

Head coach Kevin Schnall and first base coach Matt Schilling were ejected in the first inning, ace Jacob Morrison allowed five runs and pitched less than four innings, and the Chants were unable to muster enough offense against another LSU First Team All-American starter.

On the heels of a historic 26-game winning streak, CCU (56-13) lost its second straight game and the CWS national championship series to LSU in two games with a 5-3 loss at Charles Schwab Field Omaha.

LSU (53-15) won its second national baseball title in three years and eighth overall.

"Congratulations to coach Schnall and Coastal. To win 26 games in a row is insane," LSU coach Jay Johnson said. "We won 17 at one point this year, didn't feel like we lost for like two months. 26 is ridiculous. It took the best team in the country to beat them. LSU is the best team in the country this year, not just the national champion."

A day after being shut out 1-0 in a complete-game three-hitter by redshirt sophomore lefthander Kade Anderson (12-1) 鈥� who is projected by some to be the No. 1 pick in July鈥檚 Major League Baseball draft 鈥� junior righthander Anthony Eyanson (12-2) threw 6 1/3 against the Chants Sunday, allowing three runs on seven hits, three walks and a hit batter with nine strikeouts.

Eyanson was replaced by sophomore righthander Chase Shores one batter and one out into the seventh inning after allowing a two-run home run by Wells Sykes that just cleared the fence at the 370 mark in left field and pulled CCU within two runs.

But the Chants managed just one baserunner over the final 2 2/3 innings against Shores, who hit 101 mph on the radar gun with his fastball.

Dean Mihos, who homered in the second inning to open the scoring, singled into right field to lead off the ninth to give the Chants hope, but Ty Dooley struck out and Sykes grounded into a double play to end the game.

鈥淚 just didn't feel like we ever allowed them to have momentum in the two games,鈥� Johnson said. 鈥淚t's like in football, they were in third-and-eight the whole time because we did a good job keeping the leadoff guy off base. When we got a baserunner on, we immediately got the next guy out.

鈥�. . . We only walked one [Sunday], we had the one hit-by-pitch, and we laid out a pretty clear plan of what we needed to do to beat this team.鈥�

Morrison (12-1), coming off a collegiate career-high 109-pitch outing last Sunday in a win over Oregon State, allowed a run in the third and four in the fourth and threw 3 2/3 innings for the shortest of his 18 starts this season.

He allowed five runs on six hits, a walk and a hit batter with two strikeouts, and threw 63 pitches.

Coastal did not get a hit with a runner on second or third base in the championship series. After going 0-for-9 with runners in scoring position against Anderson on Saturday, the Chants had runners reach second base with two outs in the first, fourth and fifth innings against Eyanson but went 0-for-3 in those at-bats.

"It came down to we kept getting guys on base, we just couldn't deliver enough hits, and a lot of that you've got to give them credit," Schnall said.听"Their pitchers threw very well."

After Mihos pulled a homer over the left field wall near the foul pole in the second inning 鈥� CCU鈥檚 first homer of the CWS 鈥� LSU tied the game in the third on a two-out RBI double by Ethan Frey that scored Daniel Dickinson, who singled to lead off the inning.

In the fourth, the Tigers got a leadoff walk by Jake Brown, single by Jared Jones and hit-by-pitch by Luis Hernandez to load the bases with no outs. A Chris Stanfield single scored two, and a sacrifice bunt and popup for the second out preceded a two-run single by Derek Curiel that chased Morrison.

It was gratifying for the Tigers to chase Morrison so early, as it was Morrison who received media and social media attention for answering a question Friday about what he liked or admired about LSU with the response, 鈥淣ot a whole lot.鈥�

CCU sophomore lefty Hayden Johnson of Myrtle Beach, junior righty Darin Horn and senior righthanded closer Ryan Lynch kept LSU off the scoreboard for the final 5 1/3 innings, allowing just four hits and two walks with seven strikeouts, but the CCU offense couldn鈥檛 complete a comeback.

CCU associate head coach and recruiting coordinator Chad Oxendine took over control of the team after Schnall's ejection.

The NCAA issued a statement during the game regarding the ejections, claiming both Schnall and Schilling were ejected because they continued arguing about balls and strikes after initially being warned, which is a violation of Rule 3-6-f Note 1 and warrants an ejection. Schnall has been issued an additional two-game suspension for continuing to argue on the field after being ejected, which is a violation of Rule 5-15-a-4. That will carry over to the first two games of the 2026 season.

Schnall took umbrage with his ejection in postgame comments.

"If that warrants an ejection, I'm the first one to stand here like a man and apologize," Schnall said. ". . . If that warranted an ejection, man, there would be a lot of ejections. As an umpire, I feel like it's your job to manage the game, the national championship game, with some poise, some calmness and a little bit of tolerance."

ABC television cameras picked up Schnall stepping out of the dugout to ask what he was being reprimanded for by home plate umpire Angel Campos, saying "For What?" Schnall then held up three fingers and appeared to say, "You've missed three pitches," and repeated it, which resulted in his ejection.

Coastal, which was looking for its second national title over the past 10 seasons, had a historic win streak snapped, but it will continue to hold a couple records pertaining to the College World Series.

It had a 23-game winning streak entering the CWS, the longest by any team since the current playoff format was adopted in 1999, surpassing Oregon State鈥檚 previous record of 21 games in 2017.

With three wins added to that total in the CWS, the Chants carried the longest winning streak into the championship series in history, breaking the 77-year-old record of 18 straight wins set by Southern California in 1948.

Coastal's players clearly relished their experience and run in Omaha despite the loss, as most if not all of the Chants walked onto the infield following the championship trophy presentation to scoop up some sand and place it in cups as a remembrance.