North Carolina State’s Brett Williams doubled in a run in the top of the 17th inning to break a 4-4 tie and send the Wolfpack to the College World Series for the first time since 1968.

The extra-inning, rain-delayed affair, which took nearly seven and a half hours to complete, proved to be the longest super regional game in NCAA history.

The Pack rallied in the ninth for the second night in a row. Down 4-1, NC State’s Jake Fincher doubled in two runs to draw the score to 4-3. Tarran Senay, who eventually scored the winning run, drove in Fincher to tie the score at 4.

The Owls left the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning and the two teams went scoreless for the seven innings before the Wolfpack heroics ended things at about 11:30 p.m.

Rice (44-20) led most of the game after hammering out a season-high three home runs, including two by Christian Stringer, who had just one homer the entire regular season.

The Wolfpack will play the winner of the UNC-South Carolina game in their first game of the College World Series in Omaha.

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