{"id":338706,"date":"2026-06-16T18:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T18:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/338706\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T18:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T18:33:08","slug":"texas-names-luke-harrison-its-starting-pitcher-for-cws-game-vs-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/338706\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas names Luke Harrison its starting pitcher for CWS game vs Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OMAHA, Neb. \u2014 Needing a win to stay alive at the College World Series,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/hookem\/baseball\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Texas<\/a> will hand the baseball to Luke Harrison.<\/p>\n<p>Texas has announced that Harrison will start on the mound against Georgia in Tuesday&#8217;s elimination game at the College World Series. Georgia is set to counter with Dylan\u00a0Vigue.<\/p>\n<p>A junior right-hander who spent his first two years of college at Michigan, Vigue is 4-1 with a 4.73 ERA in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Despite tabbing Harrison as its starter, Texas will likely use a most-hands-on-deck strategy during tonight&#8217;s game. Due to their heavy workloads in UT&#8217;s first two games at the College World Series, Dylan\u00a0Volantis and Ruger Riojas aren&#8217;t expected options against the Bulldogs, but Brody Walls is the only other Longhorn who has thrown more than 20 pitches in Omaha. All-American closer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/baseball\/article\/sam-cozart-texas-longhorns-jacob-cozart-22296934.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Sam Cozart hasn&#8217;t pitched since June 7<\/a> and often-used relievers Thomas Burns and Haiden Leffew have yet to make an appearance at the 2026 College World Series.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/baseball\/article\/georgia-baseball-bulldogs-22296930.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">has plenty of well-rested options<\/a>. Joey\u00a0Volchko, who threw a complete game\u00a0against Texas this past Saturday, and Caden Aoki, who pitched eight innings against Oklahoma on Monday, are the only pitchers that Georgia has used at the College World Series.<\/p>\n<p>If Texas (46-14) beats Georgia (52-13), the Longhorns will advance in the College World Series bracket. The Longhorns would then need two wins over Oklahoma (40-22) in order to reach the\u00a0NCAA&#8217;s championship series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OMAHA, Neb. \u2014 Needing a win to stay alive at the College World Series,\u00a0Texas will hand the baseball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2845,67002,782,70591,27,29,537,20340,28],"class_list":["post-338706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-baseball","tag-college-world-series","tag-georgia-bulldogs","tag-luke-harrison","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-baseball","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338706","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=338706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}