<p>Andrew Kown matched his fellow starters pitch-for-pitch, and Brandon Boggs and Tyler Greene took their turns hitting home runs.</p><p>With everything coming together, Georgia Tech left little hope for Texas Tech.</p><p>Kown pitched seven solid innings and the Yellow Jackets banged two more homers to beat the Red Raiders 5-3 Sunday in the final of the NCAA regional in Atlanta.</p><p>The victory put the Yellow Jackets (44-19) in the Super Regional for the second time in three years, and they host a best-of-3 series next weekend against in-state rival Georgia, which edged Clemson 7-6 in 10 innings to win the Athens regional.</p><p>"I'm very proud of this team," Georgia Tech coach Danny Hall said. "We did a lot of the little things real well, not just today but through the whole tournament."</p><p>Boggs and Greene each had solo home runs against the Red Raiders (40-21), giving Georgia Tech eight in its three games. Those were hit by seven different players, with Whit Robbins the only one with two.</p><p>Greene finished 3-for-5 with two RBIs and Clifton Remole was 3-for-5 with a triple for the Yellow Jackets, who won for the 23rd time in 25 games. Regional Most Outstanding Player Eric Patterson was 1-for-4 with a walk.</p><p>"Really, it goes to the whole team," Patterson said of his award. "Everybody stepped up. It was someone different every day."</p><p>Kown (10-1) won his ninth straight decision by allowing one run on seven hits. He struck out seven, including five over the first two innings. He threw 113 pitches and hasn't lost since Feb. 29 against Oklahoma.</p><p>His performance left Georgia Tech's starters 3-0 in the regional with a 1.96 ERA in 23 innings. Brian Burks went the final two innings.</p><p>"It's been like that all year," Kown said. "It just gave me all the confidence that I needed to go after hitters."</p><p>Michael Mask hit a two-run homer with two outs in the ninth off Brian Burks, who ended the game by getting Haney on a flyball to center.</p><p>Josh Brady and Josh Haney had two hits apiece for Texas Tech, which returned the NCAA tournament for the ninth time in 10 seasons after missing out in 2003. The Red Raiders stranded 11 runners, and their lone run until the ninth came on a groundout by Cody Fuller.</p><p>Michael McGowan (2-2) lasted only 3 1-3 innings and gave up three runs on three hits. He walked five and struck out three.</p><p>"We depended on our starters all year to get through five or six innings, and we didn't do that in this tournament," Texas Tech coach Larry Hays said. "Man, that really hurt us."</p><p>Georgia Tech jumped to a 1-0 lead in the first on an RBI single by Remole, and the margin increased to 2-0 on Boggs' homer in the third. In the fourth, Greene hit a towering drive into the wind to left, and it carried well over the wall.</p><p>Texas Tech wasted a chance in the second when Mask and Haney had back-to-back singles. With Mask on third, Fuller hit a blooper into short center, and second baseman Patterson sprinted out to make the catch with his back to the infield.</p><p>Curiously, Mask stayed on third, and Kown ended the threat by striking out Madison Edwards.</p><p>"I was watching the center fielder and I thought he was going to catch it," Hays said. "Patterson made a great play."</p><p>The Red Raiders finally got on the board in the sixth, using two walks by Kown and a Fuller's groundout to make it 3-1.</p><p>But Georgia Tech added a run in the seventh when Greene singled home Micah Owings, and Owings drove in Boggs in the eighth with a sacrifice fly.</p>
