Omaha, Neb. ? Yaron Peters extended his arms and South Carolina’s season with one big swing.

Peters hit a tiebreaking two-run homer as the Gamecocks eliminated Nebraska from the College World Series with a 10-8 win Sunday.

“All day long I didn’t get much to hit. I didn’t get a chance to get extended on anything,” said Peters, who drove a two-strike pitch from Jeremy Becker out to right-center. “My eyes just blew up when I saw something over the middle of the plate. If I was going to go, I was going to go hacking.”

The Gamecocks (54-17) rallied from a 4-0 deficit for their first CWS win in three appearances. South Carolina, which had just six hits while being shut out by Georgia Tech in the opening round, had 15 hits off six Nebraska pitchers.

“We certainly wanted to come out and have a character performance today, and we certainly did. Being down 4-0 it didn’t look too good,” South Carolina coach Ray Tanner said. “Today it was a heavyweight fight and we were fortunate to come out on top.”

John Wesley (2-0) earned the win when Brandon Eymann flew out. Wesley, South Carolina’s fifth pitcher, pitched 32/3 innings and held the Huskers to one run on two hits.

Nebraska (47-21) went 0-2 in the CWS for the second straight year despite scoring 18 runs in two games. The Huskers left nine runners on base and struggled out of the bullpen for the second time.

“We’ve been telling our kids since we got here that we need to punch in runs here and there,” Nebraska coach Dave Van Horn said. “We left a lot of runners on today.”

“We faced a couple of pretty good offensive teams and we hung in there with them pretty good. We just didn’t stop anybody. The bullpen is something we’ve battled with all year and it showed up again today.”

Clemson 9, Georgia Tech 7

Omaha, Neb. Jeff Baker hit a bases-loaded double and Michael Johnson homered as Clemson held off Georgia Tech.

The Tigers improved to 3-2 this season against their ACC rivals and moved within one win of playing in the CWS championship game Saturday.

It’s the first time in 10 trips to Omaha that Clemson (54-15) has opened the CWS 2-0.

Johnson was 3-for-3 with two RBIs and reliever Jeff Hahn (3-0) was credited with the win after coming on in the fourth.

Jason Perry homered and had two RBIs and Philip Perry had a strong relief outing that gave Tech (52-15) a chance at coming back after falling behind 8-0 in the second.

Clemson chased Tech starter Chris Goodman (8-2) after just 12/3 innings. Goodman was charged with seven runs on five hits and was replaced by Aaron Walker, who lasted just two hitters.