Omaha, Neb. ? David Maroul’s three-run double highlighted Texas’ five-run first inning, and Seth Johnston and Dooley Prince had four hits apiece to lead the Longhorns to a 9-3 victory over Georgia in the College World Series on Sunday.

The top-seeded Longhorns earned the inside track to a spot in the best-of-three championship series. They will go to the finals next weekend if they beat the winner of Tuesday’s Georgia-Arizona game.

In the other game, Arizona beat Arkansas 7-2.

Texas (57-13), which beat Arkansas, 13-2, in the CWS’ first round, has outscored its opponents by a combined 71-21 in seven NCAA Tournament games.

The Longhorns had their first three batters reach against starter Sean Ruthven, who needed 55 pitches in the opening inning. Johnston and Carson Kainer drove in runs before Maroul’s bases-loaded double for a 5-0 lead.

Ruthven (7-2) gave up an RBI double to Curtis Thigpen in the fourth and left in favor of Mitchell Boggs to start the fifth. Sam LeCure, making his school-record 22nd straight start this season, allowed three hits and one run in four innings. J. Brent Cox (6-1) earned the win in relief after giving up two runs on four hits in three innings.

Huston Street pitched one-hit relief over the last two innings.

Georgia (44-22) scored once in the first on Josh Morris’ sacrifice fly and twice in the fifth on a Marshall Szabo single and a Josh Morris groundout.

In the early game, Arizona’s Jordan Brown looked more like the No. 3 batter he used to be rather than the No. 8 batter he was.

The demoted Brown hit two of his team’s four home runs as the Wildcats eliminated Arkansas.

“To me, as long as I’m playing on a stage like this, where I’m hitting doesn’t really mean much as long as I get my hacks,” said Brown, who was 0-for-13 in super regionals against Long Beach State and struck out three times and had two singles in Friday’s first-round CWS loss to Georgia.

Arizona (36-26-1) moves to a Tuesday game against Georgia. Arkansas ended its season with a 45-24 record.

John Meloan (10-0) and Mark Melancon combined to hold Arkansas to five hits.

The Razorbacks had managed only two hits in a 13-2 loss to Texas on Friday.

Arkansas’ Dave Van Horn became the only coach to lose each of his first six games in the College World Series. Van Horn also went two-and-out in 2001 and ’02 with his Nebraska teams.

Meloan allowed five hits in 61/3 innings.

He walked six and struck out five.

“I mixed it up and tried to throw a variety of pitches at them,” Meloan said. “No matter who you’re playing in college baseball, two pitches are going to get guys out on a consistent basis. I made good pitches, hit my spots, and that’s what got me outs.”

Melancon retired the last eight batters he faced for his third save.

Brown homered leading off the third inning to open the scoring.