{"id":338129,"date":"2026-06-16T07:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/338129\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T07:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:44:10","slug":"texas-to-face-georgia-in-tuesday-elimination-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/338129\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas to face Georgia in Tuesday elimination game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The national title favorite in <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PEARatings\/status\/2066158721898516482\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sunday\u2019s PEARatings<\/a> suffered a big blow on Monday when the Georgia Bulldogs, the highest-seeded team in the College World Series, dropped into the loser\u2019s bracket with a 4-3 loss to the Oklahoma Sooners, setting up a Tuesday rematch with the Texas Longhorns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Skip Johnson\u2019s Oklahoma team, which eliminated No. 2 Georgia Tech in the Atlanta Regional, might be the hottest squad in Omaha with seven straight wins after the Demon Deacons put them on the edge of elimination with an opening-game loss in the regional. Since then, OU buzzed through Kansas in the Lawrence Super Regional by a combined score of 22-3 and continued that momentum at Charles Schwab Field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Sooners opened the CWS with a dominant 9-0 win over the Crimson Tide on Saturday, then upset the Diamond Dogs after taking a 3-0 lead in the first inning on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">A leadoff double and a hit batter put Georgia starter Caden Aoki in immediate trouble, quickly exacerbated by Aoki\u2019s throwing error to put the runners on second and base, allowing a groundout to result in an RBI. OU delivered the big blow in the game when shortstop Jaxon Willits delivered a two-run home run, just clearing the wall in right center for his seventh home run this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">In a significant development for UGA heading into Tuesday\u2019s matchup, however, Aoki recovered from the early struggles to work all eight innings without giving up another run until left fielder Brendan Brock delivered a solo shot in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Dawgs stayed in the game in characteristic fashion, hitting solo homers in the fourth, fifth, and eighth innings against Sooners starter Xander Mercurius, who worked into the eighth, allowing those three runs on six hits with nine strikeouts and two walks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Securing a ninth save wasn\u2019t easy for Oklahoma closer Jackson Cleveland. The Miami transfer gave up a single to the first batter he faced and then issued a two-out, full-count walk, but induced a fly out to right field to strand two runners in the eighth. In the ninth, Georgia got the leadoff runner on with a single prior to a one-out hit batter. Cleveland left two more runners on base when he sealed the victory with a strikeout and a fly out to center to star Georgia catcher Daniel Jackson, who left four runners on base in going 1-for-5 with a solo homer in the eighth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Bulldogs finished 0-for-12 with runners on and 0-for-3 with runners in scoring position, advancing the runner only two times in 14 opportunities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">With Oklahoma in command of Bracket 2, the Horns and Dawgs face off again on Tuesday at 7 p.m. Central on ESPN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The national title favorite in Sunday\u2019s PEARatings suffered a big blow on Monday when the Georgia Bulldogs, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,20340,28],"class_list":["post-338129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns-baseball","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338129","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=338129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}