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Texas Longhorns head coach Jim Schlossnagle watches the game from the dugout in the fifth inning as the Longhorns play the UTRGV Vaqueros at UFCU Disch-Falk Field in Austin, Feb. 24, 2026. Texas won 14-0 by run-rule after the seventh inning.<\/p>\n
Sara Diggins\/Austin American-Statesman<\/p>\n
Texas baseball <\/a>is trying to record its first SEC series sweep of the season Saturday at home against No. 8 Oklahoma<\/p>\n The Longhorns have trailed most of the way but are mounting a late comeback. After trailing 4-2, Texas put up runs in the seventh and eighth to tie the score.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n The Sooners got to Texas starter Dylan Volantis for seven hits in the second and third innings \u2014 all singles \u2014 to take a 3-0 lead, but the Longhorns answered with Carson Tinney’s two-run home run in the fourth. But Volantis walked in a run before being pulled in the sixth. Then, UT woke up. But can they take their first lead of the day when it matters most?<\/p>\n The Longhorns\u00a0won Game 1 in the series 14-0<\/a> then eked out a 4-3 extra-inning nail-biter<\/a> in Game 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n Here are updates from Saturday’s game:<\/p>\n Texas vs Oklahoma: Live updates Saturday<\/p>\n End 8: Oklahoma 4, Texas 4<\/p>\n Austin native\u00a0Kadyn Leon took the mound in the eighth and allowed a Tinney single. Robbins hit a first-pitch single to left field; Tinney was able to advance to third base. A fielder’s choice from Rodriguez retired Robbins but brought in the tying run.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Mid 8: Oklahoma 4, Texas 3<\/p>\n Crossland retired the first two batters, but Johnson hit a single to right field. He stole second and advanced to third on an errant pick-off attempt by Crossland. Brock flied out on a 2-1 pitch to end the threat.<\/p>\n End 7: Oklahoma 4, Texas 3<\/p>\n Pack led off with a single, Borba followed with a strikeout. Pack stole second before\u00a0Duplantier struck out looking. A 10-pitch plate appearance ended with a Larson walk then Mendoza singled to score Pack. During the play, Larson was thrown out trying to advance to third.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Mid 7: Oklahoma 4, Texas 2<\/p>\n Two hits sandwiched around a strikeout pushed a runner into scoring position against Crossland. But he struck out Dickerson and Branch to send Texas back to the batter’s box.<\/p>\n End 6: Oklahoma 4, Texas 2<\/p>\n Oklahoma right-hander Xander Mercurius finished the fifth for Oklahoma then forced three\u00a0groundouts in the sixth.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Mid 6: Oklahoma 4, Texas 2<\/p>\n Alec Blair\u00a0and Branch singled to give the Sooners two on with one out. After a strikeout and a hit by pitch, Volantis faced Johnson with a chance to get out of the winning. But the left-hander issued the walk and was pulled. Brett Crossland fanned Brock to retired the side.<\/p>\n End 5: Oklahoma 3, Texas 2\u00a0<\/p>\n Duplantier grounded out, Maddox Mansour flied out and Mendoza walked. Tinney made hard contact but it found the center fielder’s glove.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Mid 5: Oklahoma 3, Texas 2<\/p>\n Volantis sits the Sooners down in order using just eight pitches.\u00a0<\/p>\n End 4: Oklahoma 3, Texas 2<\/p>\n Texas got a baserunner on when Temo Becerra walked, but the Longhorns couldn’t get anything else started. Adrian Rodriguez flied out, as did Anthony Pack, Jr. and Casey Borba struck out swinging.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Mid 4: Oklahoma 3, Texas 2<\/p>\n Not much to report on Oklahoma’s end, but of note for Texas: Dylan Volantis just enjoyed a pretty easy fourth inning. That’s notable because the second and third innings were treacherous.\u00a0<\/p>\n After Texas scored two runs on Carson Tinney’s home run in the bottom of the third, Volantis went unscathed in the fourth on a couple of ground outs and a strikeout. He’s at 65 pitches through four innings.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n End 3: Oklahoma 3, Texas 2<\/p>\n Jayden Duplantier had a long fly out. Maddox Monseur struck out. On three pitches.<\/p>\n But then Ethan Mendoza singled up the middle, and then Carson Tinney ripped a 1-1 breaking ball over the left-center field wall \u2014 his seventh home run of the season \u2014 to get Texas back into the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n Mid 3: Oklahoma 3, Texas 0<\/p>\n Oklahoma looks like it has figured out Dylan Volantis early. The Texas left-hander was 1-2-3 efficient in the first inning, throwing only seven pitches, but the Sooners have riddled him with singles \u2014 and runs \u2014 in the second and third.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n After falling behind 2-0 in the second inning, Volantis gave up another couple of hits and another run in the third. Brendan Brock led off with a single \u2014 OU’s fifth single of the game \u2014 and Jaxon Willits added a sixth single to place runners on first and second with no outs. Drew Dickerson’s single to right field scored Brock for the 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n The Sooners now have seven hits (all singles) off Volantis, who previously hadn’t allowed more than six hits in any previous game this season. He threw seven pitches in the first, 29 in the second and 20 more in the third. He’s sitting at 56 pitches through three innings.<\/p>\n End 2: Oklahoma 2, Texas 0<\/p>\n Not much to report in Texas’ half of the second inning. After falling behind 2-0, the Longhorns got a leadoff single from Adrian Rodriguez but didn’t generate anything after that.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Through two innings, Texas has one hit. Oklahoma has five hits and have left three on base.<\/p>\n Mid 2: Oklahoma 2, Texas 0<\/p>\n The Sooners loaded the bases with three singles off Dylan Volantis, who got his second strikeout of the game after the first two singles but then gave up a chopper to shortstop from Kyle Branch that scored Jaxon Willits and Jason Walk’s hit up the middle that brought in Deiten LaChance. A walk loaded the bases with two outs and Oklahoma up 2-0, but Volantis got Camden Johnson to ground out, a chopper that Volantis handled himself.<\/p>\n Volantis’ first inning: seven pitches thrown.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Volantis’ second inning: 29.\u00a0 Eight Sooners had an at-bat.<\/p>\n Texas vs Oklahoma\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Place: UFCU Disch-Falk Field<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Longhorns head coach Jim Schlossnagle watches the game from the dugout in the fifth inning as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,2845,67531,772,80455,2846,537,20340,60844],"class_list":{"0":"post-225209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-college-baseball","12":"tag-dylan-volantis","13":"tag-oklahoma-sooners","14":"tag-oklahoma-sooners-baseball","15":"tag-sec-baseball","16":"tag-texas-longhorns","17":"tag-texas-longhorns-baseball","18":"tag-ufcu-disch-falk-field"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n