This past week, the University of Oklahoma baseball team played the No. 15 seed Kansas Jayhawks at the Lawrence Super Regional at Hoglund Ballpark winning two games out of three to win the Kansas Super Regional and became eligible for the College World Series for the first time since 2022.

Game 2 began on Sunday after a rain delay, and then with OU leading 8-1 in the bottom of the third inning, the game was suspended, to be completed Monday afternoon.  Freshman pitcher Xander Mercurius started for the Sooners.  In the first inning, the Sooners went ahead when Deiten Lachance grounded out allowing Jason Walk to score, Sooners 1-0.

But Kansas bounced back in the top of the second inning with Jordan Bach batting in pitcher Josh Dykhoff tying the Sooners.  In the bottom of the second inning the Sooners bats got hot. Dasan Harris batted in Trey Gambill. Then Brendan Brock reached home on a bunt by Kyle Branch. Camden Johnson gets a walk that causes Harris to score. Lachance hits a single allowing Branch and Walk to cross home plate.  Brock is hit by a pitch bringing Johnson home.  In all OU scored six runs, bringing the score to OU 7-1 Kansas.

In the third inning Dayton Tockey hit a solo home run bringing to score to OU 8-1 Kansas, after which there was a lightning delay with the game being suspended until Monday.

The game continued on Monday afternoon.  Neither team scored until the bottom of the sixth inning when OU’s Lachance hit a home run which also scored Johnson and then Harris hit a homer driving in Brock bringing the score to OU 12-1 Kansas.

Kansas scored in the top of the eighth inning with a solo home run by  tyson LeBlanc. OU-12-2-Kansas

The last score of the game was a solo home  run by Sooner Gambill in the top of the eighth inning with the final score being OU 13-2 Kansas.

In game one on Saturday, the Sooners used three home runs to defeat Kansas, 8-1. Hitting homers for OU were Dayton Tockey, Camden Johnson and Trey Gambill.

OU scored four runs in the fourth inning and three in the fifth to secure a comfortable lead.

The lone Jayhawk run came on a solo home run in the eighth by Jordan Bach.

Cord Rager (5-3) pitched a gem on the mound for OU. He struck out six and allowed just one hit and one walk over his six innings of work. The only batter that advanced to second base against Rager was thrown out trying to reach third by left fielder Brendan Brock in the first inning.

LJ Mercurius tossed the final three innings to earn his third save of the season. He struck out three and allowed three hits.

KU starter Dominic Voegele (6-4) struck out three and allowed seven runs (three earned) on seven hits over 4.2 innings.