OMAHA, Neb. \u2014 No. 6 Texas dropped a 7-1 result to No. 3 Georgia in its opening game of the Men’s College World Series at Charles Schwab Field on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n
Dylan Volantis<\/a> (10-2) limited one of the nation’s top offenses to just two earned runs in 6 1\/3 innings, but defensive miscues helped the Bulldogs (52-12) punch their spot into the winners’ bracket against Oklahoma at 6 p.m. Monday.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Longhorns (45-14) will face No. 7 Alabama in an elimination game at 1 p.m. earlier in the day.<\/p>\n After Georgia pushed across four runs \u2014 two earned \u2014 in the first, Volantis responded by retiring 16 of the next 18 batters.<\/p>\n The 6-foot-6, 220-pound left-hander held Georgia without a hit from the second into the seventh, scattering four knocks across a career-high 111 pitches. Volantis finished with nine strikeouts.<\/p>\n His counterpart Joey Volchko (11-2) tossed his first career complete game, yielding one unearned run. Volchko punched out a career-high 15 batters and surrendered just four hits.<\/p>\n Adrian Rodriguez<\/a> and Ethan Mendoza<\/a> both tallied two hits apiece in the defeat.<\/p>\n The Bulldogs’ offense was highlighted by Rylan Lujo. Lujo delivered a first-inning two-run homer and an RBI double in the seventh to back Volchko.<\/p>\n Two batters after Lujo’s second knock, Kenny Ishikawa mounted a two-run single to put the game out of reach.<\/p>\n Texas is now 88-66 (.571) all-time in Men’s College World Series contests.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OMAHA, Neb. \u2014 No. 6 Texas dropped a 7-1 result to No. 3 Georgia in its opening game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-335821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335821","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=335821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}