One more.
The Oklahoma Sooners are only one win away from punching their ticket to Omaha for the Men's College World Series after hammering the No. 15 national seed Kansas Jayhawks 8-1 in Game 1 of the Lawrence Super Regional on Saturday. If the Sooners do the same thing again on Sunday, then they'll be back at the MCWS for the first time since 2022 and the second time under head coach Skip Johnson.
And with the way the Sooners just dominated, OU fans might already be booking hotel rooms in Omaha, especially considering 79% of Game 1 winners ever went on to win their Super Regional best-of-three series to advance.
Sooners still strutting against Kansas with Omaha a win away
The Sooners, although inconsistent most of the regular season and limping into the NCAA Tournament having lost seven of their last 10 games, have looked like a team worthy of competing for a national title the last two weekends after upsetting No. 2 national seed Georgia Tech in the Atlanta Regional to get to this point.
Skip's squad is obviously still rolling after cruising in Game 1. The Sooners put up a 4-0 lead in an instant in the fourth inning, mostly thanks to Dayton Tockey's three-run homer. Tockey was responsible for getting the Sooners here with his walk-off home run to take down Georgia Tech on Monday.
"We can beat anybody in the country when we’re playing our game," Tockey said ahead of the trip to Lawrence.
The Sooners added three more the next inning in the fifth with another pair of bombs from Camden Johnson and Trey Gambill. Brendan Brock then singled in the seventh to score Deiten Lachance and put the count at 8-0. Kansas didn't even get on the board until the eighth inning when the game was clearly in hand.
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The Jayhawks couldn't keep up with the Sooners as freshman Cord Rager shut them down for six innings before LJ Mercurius finished things off. Rager gave up just one hit while striking out six in his six shutout innings. Kansas didn't even manage to get a runner to second base until the ninth inning.
The Sooners will get the Jayhawks at the same time Sunday at 5 p.m. CT. While an OU win has the Sooners in Omaha, a loss would force a Game 3 on Monday, which would put them in a similar spot to when they prevailed in the Atlanta Regional against even bigger odds. The winner out of the Lawrence Super Regional will begin MCWS action against whoever advances between Alabama and St. John's.
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