Sooner. Magic.
With no chance of making it Super Regionals of the NCAA Baseball Championship, the Oklahoma Sooners are headed to Super Regionals and are two games from going to the College World Series after pulling off an 8-7 miracle in Atlanta.
In a do-or-die game against the No. 2 seed team in the country on Monday afternoon, the Sooners entered the seventh inning trailing Georgia Tech 7-3 after the Yellow Jackets had put up seven unanswered runs to seemingly be in control and cruising to Super Regionals. But OU fans have learned to never doubt a Skip Johnson team and certainly know a little magic is always up the sleeve of every Sooner.
Dayton Tockey delivers epic walk-off to take down No. 2 Georgia Tech
The Sooners started to chip away with two runs in the seventh inning then another in the eighth to be down just one headed to the bottom of the ninth as the home team on the scoreboard in Georgia Tech's stadium. Shortstop Jaxon Willits then sent the game to extras and gave the Sooners at least one more inning of baseball in 2026 when he singled to right to score third baseman Camden Johnson from second.
Then Dayton Tockey really conjured up something special. First, senior Jackson Cleveland, fighting to keep his college career going, sat down Georgia Tech in order in the top half of the 10th. All the Sooners needed from there was one swing for an entire season.
Tockey, batting in the 8-hole and hitting .232 on the season, was battling a full count when he used that magic wand in his hand to absolutely hammer a low pitch 454 feet over the batter's eye wall in dead center field. Ball game.
WE'RE GOING TO KANSAS, Y'ALL 🗣️ pic.twitter.com/C1NIK2jQUe
— Oklahoma Baseball (@OU_Baseball) June 1, 2026
It was a moment that would leave every other fan base at a loss for words. But OU fans know to describe it as Sooner Magic. There's no definition for what creates Sooner Magic, but OU fans just know.
The fact the Sooners even got to start that game, let alone finish it in that fashion, was already magical in itself. The day before on Sunday, again facing elimination against Georgia Tech, OU strung together 13 unanswered runs after being down 8-2 in the fourth to live another day. The Sooners ultimately prevailed 15-8 to force Monday's "if necessary" game after getting handled by Georgia Tech 9-3 on Saturday.
There was no reason to believe the Sooners would get out of Atlanta and past the No. 2 Yellow Jackets other than just blind hope. They entered the NCAA Tournament having went a disappointing 3-7 in their last 10 games. In the first game of the Atlanta Regional, OU needed a small comeback just to avoid an upset to The Citadel. Sooner Magic, though, doesn't have reason, and neither does college baseball with the top two seeds now eliminated even before Super Regionals.
Now, the Sooners this weekend will play old Big 12 foe Kansas, the No. 15 seed, in Super Regionals. Two wins in Lawrence, and the Sooners go to Omaha for the College World Series for the first time since 2022. And after what we just witnessed, there's no reason to doubt anything can happen.
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