OU LOSES TO TAR HEELS IN REGIONAL
At the Chapel Hill regional of the NCAA Baseball Tournament, the Oklahoma Sooners made it all the way to a second final matchup with North Carolina, but lost 14-4, as the Tar Heels advanced to the Super Regionals.
Oklahoma beat Nebraska in the first game of the regional, 7-4 and then face the host North Carolina Tar Heels in a winners’ bracket matchup.
The Sooners lost to the No. 5 national seed North Carolina on Saturday by a final of 11-5. The Tar Heels jumped out to a 6-0 lead in the first inning on six unearned runs and held on for the win. The Sooners’ offense didn’t get going until late in the game by scoring five runs in the final four innings, but it wasn’t enough to overcome an 9-0 deficit going into the sixth inning.
In an elimination game on Sunday, OU blew out the Cornhuskers, 17-1, in their second meeting at the regional. That set up a final showdown with the Tar Heels Sunday evening, to advance from the Super Regional.
The Sooners were victorious in that game, 7-5. It was the first loss for the Tar Heels in the double-elimination regional forcing a second regional final to be played on Monday.
Oklahoma’s season came to a close as the Sooners fell to the Tar Heels, 14-4 in the second regional title game on Monday.
OU finished the 2025 season with a 38-22 record and advanced to the NCAA tournament for the fourth straight season and 42nd time in school history. The Sooners won five of 10 series in the program’s inaugural season in the SEC and made an NCAA regional final for the third time in the last four years under head coach Skip Johnson.
“I thought we had a good year all year long,” said Johnson. “We fought through some adversity, fought through some injuries, we had three frontline starters, I’m proud of that. A lot of guys grew up, I’m just thankful to have these young men in my life.”
UNC advances to the Super Regionals with a record of 45-13.
OSU IN ATHENS REGIONAL
The Oklahoma State Cowboys needed to battle out of the losers’ bracket to reach the final game on Sunday against Duke at the Athens final in Georgia.
OSU lost their first game of the regional to Duke, 12-5, on Friday. Then the Cowboys bounced back to beat Binghamton, 13-5 on Saturday, and OSU defeated the host Georgia Bulldogs, 11-9 on Sunday afternoon.
That set up another matchup with Duke on Sunday evening, won by the Blue Devils, 3-2.
OSU opened the scoring in the fourth inning with a two-run homer by Kollin Ritchie.
In the bottom of the eighth inning, Duke’s AJ Garcia hit a solo homer for the team’s first run, then Sam Harris singled up the middle to score Jake Hyde and Ben Rounds, to give the Blue Devils the 3-2 lead. With the win, Duke advances to the Super Regional.