Arizona Beats South Carolina at College World Series The Wildcats" dugout after Robert Refsnyder scored in the seventh inning on Sunday. Refsnyder hit a home run in the first. OMAHA - The last time Arizona Coach Andy Lopez thought he had a team with a shot at the national championship, in 2008, he fashioned his pitching staff the way he prefers - in reverse. He stuck his power arms, the major league first-round draft picks Ryan Perry and Daniel Schlereth, in the bullpen. Then he told his starters to give him five innings and go wave towels in the dugout while the relievers finished up. Those Wildcats fell short of the College World Series, losing a Super Regional to Miami. Four years later Arizona finally made it here, but with a bullpen so shaky that five weeks into the season, Lopez told starters Kurt Heyer, Konner Wade and James Farris they were on their own. He needed complete games. So if Lopez approached the mound, they should not presume he wanted the ball. "I'll come out and talk to you, but I'm just going to ask you what the weather is like on the mound and what it's like in the dugout, because I'm going back in there," Lopez said last week. When it's 125, 130 pitches, then I'll come out and make a pitching change. Fifteen complete games later, the Wildcats found themselves in the C.W.S. best-of-three championship series. Sunday night, a precise Wade added one more complete game, his third straight in postseason, limiting two-time defending champion South Carolina to six hits in a 5-1 victory in Game 1. If Arizona (47-17) wins Game 2 on Monday night or Game 3 on Tuesday at TD Ameritrade Park, Lopez will become the second coach to have won a World Series title at more than one school. Augie Garrido won two at Cal State-Fullerton (1979 and 1984) and three at Texas (1995, 2002 and 2005). Lopez, whose sons David and Michael are reserves for the Wildcats, coached Pepperdine to the 1992 championship. "It would be nice," Lopez said. I'm not going to lie. Shoot, it would be great, a sweet thing to remember. Robert Refsnyder, the Yankees" fifth-round pick in the amateur draft earlier this month, hit a two-run homer to the opposite field in the first, a blow that so affected the Gamecocks that Coach Ray Tanner made his pitchers intentionally walk Refsnyder the next two times up with men in scoring position. Alex Mejia, a St. Louis Cardinals draftee, and the Cincinnati Reds selection Seth Mejias-Brean added run-scoring singles in the third and fifth to give Wade a 4-0 lead. Lopez did go talk to Wade in the sixth after Evan Marzilli broke up the shutout bit with an R.B.I. single for South Carolina (49-19). But Lopez had no one throwing in the bullpen, and Wade retired Christian Walker on a ground ball to end the inning. Wade (11-3) threw 73 strikes out of 110 pitches, with one walk. "Them not having anyone warming up shows they have confidence in me," said Wade, who shut out U.C.L.A. in his first C.W.S. start June 17. South Carolina's path from the loser's bracket forced Tanner to burn through starting pitchers Michael Roth, Jordan Montgomery and Colby Holmes on Thursday and Friday. So Sunday he turned to the sophomore right-hander Forrest Koumas, who pitched effectively in last year's opening game of the championship series, when he held Florida to one run and three hits in five and two-third innings. The Gamecocks won, 4-3 in 11 innings. But this season Koumas missed about a month with a stress fracture in his right elbow, and he had not pitched since a May 25 relief appearance against Florida in the Southeastern Conference tournament. It showed. Four batters into the game, he trailed, 2-0, and Koumas gave up one more unearned run before Tanner took him out after two and a third innings. Tanner said it would probably be up to Roth, a senior left-hander who has never lost in N.C.A.A. tournament play, to even the series Monday night on three days of rest. Roth's only two career complete games have come in elimination games in Omaha, most recently his last start last Thursday, a two-hitter to beat Kent State, 4-1. That made Roth 8-0 with a 1.33 earned run average over his career in the N.C.A.A. tournament, and 4-0 with a 1.34 E.R.A. in the C.W.S "He is a strike-throwing machine," Kent State Coach Scott Stricklin said of Roth, a Los Angeles Angels draftee. He's the biggest superstar our game has, and he throws 85 miles an hour. The South Korean-born Refsnyder, adopted by a California couple as an infant, wears No. 2 in honor of Derek Jeter. His homer followed a Jeter-like arc into the South Carolina bullpen in right. Refsnyder, a right-handed batter, is hitting .444 (8 for 18) with two homers and five R.B.I. in the C.W.S. A right fielder whom the Yankees project as a second baseman, he later stifled a potential South Carolina rally in the seventh, throwing out Adam Matthews as he tried to go from first to third on a Kyle Martin single with nobody out. "I really wasn't expecting Matthews to go," Refsnyder said. But I thought he kind of hesitated, so I decided to let it rip.