Two out of three

Win another weekend series. That’s all Brian O’Connor’s UVa. baseball has to do to get back to the College World Series.

“We’ve won every series we’ve played in this season except one, and it comes down this weekend to a three-game series. We’ve got to approach it the same way, and if we do, hopefully we have a chance to advance on,” O’Connor said yesterday.

Only N.C. State, now out of the NCAA Tournament itself, can claim any sort of conquest over the Cavs, taking two of three from Virginia earlier in the spring in Raleigh.

Virginia (50-12) has also not dropped back-to-back games in 2010, a streak that was preserved on Monday with the 5-3 win over St. John’s in the final of the Charlottesville Regional that sent UVa. to this weekend’s Super Regional best-of-three with Oklahoma (47-15).

It’s the first home Super Regional in program history. Virginia is 1-0 in Super Regionals, winning two of three at Ole Miss last year to advance to its first College World Series.

That experience is a boost to the Cavs’ efforts this year.

“Obviously when you have experiences, you learn and you grow,” O’Connor said. “Most importantly, your players understand what it takes to win two out of three this weekend. What it takes to win at this time of the year is just the little details that when you’re playing another great team like Oklahoma, it’s going to be a matter of who executes and who performs in the clutch. Outside of that, there’s really nothing else.”