OMAHA, Neb. — Gage Wood gave his dad the perfect belated Father’s Day gift — a piece of college baseball history.

The right-hander set a school record with 19 strikeouts and threw only the third no-hitter in CWS history as Arkansas beat Murray State 3-0 in an elimination game on Monday.

Wood’s no-hitter was the first at the CWS since Oklahoma State’s Jim Wixson did it against North Carolina in 1960. The other no-hiter was by Texas’ Jim Ehler against Tufts in 1950. There have been 47 low-hit games — defined by the NCAA as a pitcher throwing a complete game and allowing two hits or fewer — in the 75-year history of the CWS, but Wood’s was only the fourth since 1983.

Afterward, Wood said he gave the ball from the final out — a 97 mph fastball for a strikeout on his 119th pitch — to his father.

“I gave it to my dad. Said, happy late Father’s Day,” Wood said.

Wood retired the first 21 batters he faced — another CWS record for most consecutive outs — and struck out 14 of them. He lost his bid for a perfect game when his curveball dipped inside and hit Dom Decker’s foot to start the eighth inning. The perfect game bid was the longest in the CWS since at least 1999.

Wood quickly got back to work by getting Luke Mistone to foul out to Ryder Helfrick behind the plate, then racked up two more strikeouts to extend his no-hit bid to the ninth. He kicked his feet as he danced back to the dugout.

“I‘ll be the first one to say it: There’s nothing being said or talked about our dugout whatsoever. We’re just going to let him roll,” Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn said. “And, no, there was no chance he was coming out after eight.”

In the ninth, Wood hit pinch-hitter Nico Bermeo on the elbow but Arkansas challenged the call. After a replay review, umpires ruled Bermeo leaned into the pitch. By rule, that is a strike and it gave Wood his 17th strikeout.

Wood then blew fastballs by fellow Batesville, Ark., native and Ohio Valley Conference Freshman of the Year Conner Cunningham for the second out and Jonathan Hogart to end it.

Wood’s 19 strikeouts are one shy of the CWS record of 20 set in 1965 by Steve Arlin in Ohio State’s 1-0 win over Washington in 15 innings.

“From a pitch-calling perspective, it’s just go with his best pitches. And today the fastball was working, the curve was working. The cutter was there when we needed it, the change-up. It was all there. It’s really good to call it,” Arkansas catcher Ryder Helfrick said. “But I think if they’re a good fastball-hitting team, make them prove it. But just hunt what his best pitch is and call it a lot.”

Charles Davalan hit an RBI single in the third inning for Arkansas, and scored on an error in the seventh. Wheiwa Aloy also hit an RBI double in the seventh to give Wood all the support he needed.

The Razorbacks (49-14) advanced to another elimination game Wednesday at 6 p.m. against either UCLA or LSU. LSU was leading UCLA 5-3 in the fourth inning Monday night when the game was suspended because of rain. They will resume at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

Murray State (44-17) was eliminated in its first-ever trip to the CWS.

“We’re not going home. We get to play tomorrow night. It was pretty cool,” Wood said.