Texas A&M stayed perfect at home (12-0 #branding) and cruised to a three-game sweep of Oakland this weekend. Mother Nature was the #22 Aggies’ friend this weekend, allowing the Maroon and White to play all three games, albeit with a Friday doubleheader and Saturday morning first pitch. In their final tune-up series before conference play, A&M outscored the Golden Grizzlies 28-6 and notched 24 strikeouts across the three games.
Six unanswered runs gave Texas A&M (12-1) a 6-3 series opening win over Oakland on a Friday matinee first pitch in Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park.
The visitors jumped on Shane Sdao early, using a leadoff homer and a two-out, two-run single in the second inning to take a 3-0 lead. That halted Sdao’s scoreless streak at 14 innings. One inning later, the Aggies made it 3-3 after Caden Sorrell deposited a three-run whammy 439 feet to center off the batter’s eye.
With two outs and two runners on in the fifth, Gavin Grahovac cashed in a two-run double to give A&M a 5-3 advantage, their first lead of the game. The Aggies pushed another run across in the sixth thanks to an Oakland error to move ahead 6-3.
Outside of the shaky second frame, Sdao was dominant and masterful. He sat down the Golden Grizzlies in order and retired the final 16 hitters he faced, five via strikeout. The southpaw finished his seven innings with eight punchouts, both new career highs. Sdao has pitched into the sixth inning in all four outings in 2026 and has earned three wins this season.
A leadoff single in the ninth inning from Oakland snapped a streak of 19 consecutive hitters retired by A&M pitching in game one. The tying run came to the plate with two outs, but Clayton Freshcorn snuffed the fire using three pitches to complete the victory.
An early barrage of Aggie runs surged the home team to a 10-2 win to complete the sweep of a Friday doubleheader at Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park. The nightcap saw a solid bounce-back start from Weston Moss (2-1), who tossed six innings of one-run ball.
As for the Texas A&M (13-1) offense, it was the Boston Kellner and Gavin Grahovac show. Both hitters collected RBI in the first two frames, with the latter starting the scoring with a single to left. Kellner brought home the next two Aggies as part of a loud five-run opening stanza.
Both guys homered in the second inning – a solo shot from Grahovac and a two-run blast from Kellner. The freshman from Chandler, Ariz., was responsible for four RBI in the nightcap to push his season total to 15.
A sixth-inning sacrifice fly accounted for Grahovac’s third RBI of the game, his fifth of the doubleheader, and stretched the lead to 9-1. The junior has recorded at least one RBI in five straight contests and has a hit in 13 of 15 games played in 2026.
Oakland was held to six hits by four Aggie pitchers but had a third of them go for extra bases (a double and a homer). Both squads traded runs in the eighth before Grant Cunningham pitched a scoreless ninth to close out a 10-2 win and the twin bill sweep.
GAME 3: A&M 12, Oakland 1 (Final/7 inn.)
There was a small window to get the series finale in on Saturday morning before the rain came to Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park. Texas A&M (14-1) understood the assignment, securing a seven-inning 12-1 run rule victory to avoid any delays and put the finishing touches on a sweep.
As he did in game two, Gavin Grahovac drove home the game’s first score with a single, notching his sixth RBI of the weekend and 16th of the year. Freshman Nico Partida followed with a solo shot one inning later, his fourth of the season, to give the Aggies a 2-0 advantage.
Aidan Sims (3-0) kept the Maroon and White lead intact, posting zero after zero in an excellent outing. The offense rewarded his efforts as they broke the game open with a six-run fourth and a four-run fifth to put the run-rule in reach.
Texas A&M used five singles, an error, one walk and a fielder’s choice to score six times in that fourth frame, taking an 8-0 lead. They brought the power in the fifth, as Blake Binderup and Caden Sorrell both launched two-run shots in the inning to push the advantage to 12-0. On his 21st birthday, Sorrell notched his eighth longball of the campaign. He has 28 RBI to go along with his home run total in 14 games and is on pace for 106 RBI, which would break the single-season program record (105 RBI by Daylan Holt in 1999).
The 12th Man, Josh Stewart, allowed Oakland to score one in the sixth but struck out the final two batters of the seventh to complete the run-rule and sweep.
The five-game homestand concludes with a midweek home contest versus Stephen F. Austin (10-6) on Tuesday, March 10, at 6:00 p.m. and can be viewed on SEC Network+. Then, the SEC gauntlet commences, with a road series against old Big 12 foe, the Oklahoma Sooners (13-2).