Sooners Championship Series bound after dispatching Georgia

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OMAHA, Neb.  — The Oklahoma bats belted five home runs and Nick Wesloski was the latest Sooner freshman to deal in the starting role as the Sooners (41-22) defeated Georgia (53-14), 11-4, Wednesday, June 17 to advance to the College World Series Championship Series. 

Dasan Harris and Jason Walk became the second duo to have a two-homer game in the same game in the history of CWS contests at Charles Schwab Field and Wesloski went 5.2 innings en route to the second win of his season. 

The Sooners have now won eight in a row and are set to face North Carolina in a best-of-three series to decide the national champion beginning Saturday, June 20. 

Oklahoma 11, Georgia 4

Both sides stranded a pair through the first two innings until Walk broke the Sooner bats open with a solo home run to center in the top of the third. Wesloski settled in, turning in his second consecutive three-up and three-down frame in the bottom of the third. 

The lefty sticks stayed sizzling in the fourth as Trey Gambill hooked a line drive homer to right. After a Brendan Brock single, Harris belted his first home run of the night to put the Sooners up, 4-0. 

Georgia got on the board with one in the fifth following a Kolby Branch double and Ryan Black RBI single, although the Sooners responded by getting that run back in the sixth. Gambill singled, stole second, moved to third on a Brock fly out and scored on a Harris RBI groundout.

The Bulldogs put up their biggest threat of the game in the sixth inning, pushing Wesloski from the mound as LJ Mercurius entered with two on and one out. After a fielding error, consecutive bases-loaded walks scored two Bulldogs. Mercurius coaxed a crucial inning-ending fielder’s choice groundout to Camden Johnson at third, keeping OU up, 5-3. 

Crucial insurance came across for the Sooners in the seventh, eighth and ninth. 

Kyle Branch worked a leadoff walk in the seventh and came around to score with a two-out Jaxon Willits double. The dynamic duo of Harris and Walk did the damage in the eighth, as Harris hit a two-run homer, and Walk launched a solo shot. OU made it 11-3 in the top of the ninth after the sequence of a Deiten Lachance single, Willits double and Gambill RBI double. 

UGA’s Branch homered to start the ninth and shared a quick moment with brother Kyle Branch near second base as he trotted around the bases for the Bulldogs’ final run of 2026. That was the lone run permitted by Mercurius, who earned his fourth save with 3.1 innings of work. 

Pitchers of Record

Win: Nick Wesloski (2-1)

Loss: Paul Farley (8-2)

Save: LJ Mercurius (4)

Statistical Snapshot

Dasan Harris | 2-for-5, 5RBIs, 2HRs

Nick Wesloski | W, 5.2 IP, 4H, 3R, ER, 2BB, 4K, 90 pitches

Jason Walk | 2-for-4, 2HRs

Trey Gambill | 4-for-5, 3RBIs, HR, 2B

Brendan Brock | 3-for-5, 2R

Notes

• Oklahoma has won eight in a row, its longest winning streak of the season
• Wesloski made just his second start of the season, both of which have come in the NCAA Tournament and in consecutive starts. Wesloski hadn’t pitched in a game since May 31
• Oklahoma has started a freshman on the mound in every game of the CWS thus far. Cord Rager, Xander Mercurius and Nick Wesloski combined for 20 innings over the three starts, allowing only two four runs across those starts
• During OU’s winning streak the Sooners have won seven games against top-20 teams including five against top-10 teams
• Oklahoma bounced the ACC Champion (Georgia Tech), Big 12 Champion (Kansas) and SEC Champion (Georgia) during the NCAA postseason
• Harris tallied the second multi-home run game of his career. He had one previously at Arkansas May 9
• Walk posted the first multi-homer game of his career
• Oklahoma tied its season high with five home runs. It hit five at Arkansas May 10
• Walk and Harris both entered tonight’s game with four homers apiece
• Oklahoma has hit 43 home runs in the last 16 games, nearly half of its total of 91 this season
• OU has hit 26 home runs in 10 NCAA Tournament games
• OU’s five home runs are the second most by a team in CWS games played at Charles Schwab Field (opened in 2011)
• Walk extended his hitting streak to 12 games and subsequently his reached base streak to 20 games, both of which are team bests
• Oklahoma has scored first in six consecutive games. The last time an opponent scored first was during OU’s 15-8 win at Georgia Tech May 31
• All 11 of OU’s RBIs and subsequently all five home runs came from left-handed hitters (Walk, Willits, Gambill, Harris)
• OU is tied with LSU with the most CWS Championship Series appearances in the last five years.
• Oklahoma went 3-0 to reach the CWS Championship Series this year, just as it did in 2022. 
• The Sooners enter the championship series with 41 wins, the fewest by a team since the 2022 Ole Miss national championship team that finished the year with 22
• Oklahoma is 3-0 against Georgia in postseason play over the last two years. The Sooners eliminated UGA in the 2025 SEC Tournament and in the 2026 CWS.
• Six Sooners had multi-hit games
• Gambill posted the first four-hit game of his career
• OU is 11-2 in neutral site games this season
• The Sooners are now .500 (17-17) in games against SEC teams this year, going 14-16 in the regular season and 3-1 in SEC Tournament and NCAA Tournament play

Up Next

The Sooners will face North Carolina in the CWS Championship Series. The series follows a best-of-three format and will begin Saturday at 7 p.m. on ESPN. Game 2 is Sunday at 1:30 p.m.

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