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Oklahoma split the final two games of its series against Tennessee at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark on Saturday.
After Friday’s Game 2 was suspended in the bottom of the seventh due to lightning with Tennessee leading 5-3, the Volunteers (37-19, 15-15) completed the victory Saturday, winning 9-4 to take the series.
The Sooners (32-20, 14-16) won the series finale 12-9, powered by a three-home run game from junior Deiten Lachance — the first Sooner with a three-homer game since 2000.
Game 2 conclusion — Tennessee 9, Oklahoma 4
The Volunteers plated four runs across the eighth and ninth innings to pull away. Oklahoma got one back in the eighth on Dasan Harris’ third triple of the season, but the final stood at 9-4. Friday starter Xander Mercurius took the loss, going five innings and surrendering five runs (four earned) on six hits and two walks with six strikeouts.
Game 3 — Oklahoma 12, Tennessee 9
The regular season finale saw OU score double digits for the 13th time this season, never surrendering the lead after a six-run first inning.
Lachance opened the scoring with a solo home run — his first of three — before OU added five more in the frame on a pair of errors, a bases-loaded walk, a wild pitch and a Jason Walk RBI single.
Tennessee answered with a two-run homer in the second, but OU matched it on a Trey Gambill RBI double and a Harris RBI single. The teams traded single runs in the fourth before the Vols plated three in the top of the fifth to cut the lead to three.
Lachance’s second homer of the game in the bottom of the fifth pushed the lead back to four. In the seventh, a Tennessee two-run single and Lachance’s third blast kept Oklahoma’s advantage at three, 11-8.
The teams traded solo runs in the eighth to close out the scoring. Tennessee scored on an RBI double down the right-field line before Dayton Tockey hit his third home run of the season to bring the final to 12-9.
Jason Bodin earned his fifth win, going 2.1 innings and surrendering two runs on three hits with one walk and one strikeout. Senior Jackson Cleveland earned his eighth save, entering with two outs in the eighth, stranding a runner and working a 1-2-3 ninth. His eight saves rank second in the SEC.
Oklahoma concluded the regular season 32-20 and 14-16 in SEC play, earning the No. 11 seed at the SEC Tournament in Hoover, Ala. The Sooners face 14th-seeded LSU on Tuesday at 8 p.m. on SEC Network.