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The early theme of Monday's NCAA Baseball Tournament elimination games appears to be underdogs knocking off national seeds, one by one.
The latest underdog to send a national seed home is Oklahoma, and in dramatic fashion.
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Tied 7-7 in the bottom of the 10th inning of the Atlanta Regional, Dayton Tockey got a hold of a 3-2 pitch from Tate McKee and cleared the batter's eye in straight-away center for a walk-off, solo home run. The hit sent the Sooners into the super regionals with an 8-7 win over No. 2 Georgia Tech.
With the loss, Georgia Tech becomes the fifth national seed (at the time of this writing) that won't advance past the regional round. The others were No. 1 UCLA, No. 9 Southern Miss, No. 10 Florida State and No. 13 Nebraska.
Tockey's emphatic swing, which came with a bit of a nonchalant bat flip as he watched the ball fly out of the ballpark, sent the Sooners back to the best-of-three super regionals for the first time since 2022 — the last time the Sooners also last appeared in the College World Series.
The Sooners took an early 3-0 lead after the first inning of Monday's elimination game, with RBIs coming from Deiten Lachance and Dasan Harris. That lead would go away by the end of the sixth inning when the Yellow Jackets took a 7-3 lead after scoring five combined runs across the fifth and sixth innings.
Jaxon Willits tied the game up in the bottom of the ninth with a single into right field to force extra innings. Tockey finished off the come-from-behind win in the 10th with his sixth blast of the season.
Facing elimination from the bracket on Sunday, the Sooners won two games — a 15-5 win over The Citadel in a double-elimination game and a 15-8 win over Georgia Tech in the regional championship — to force the if-necessary game on Monday.
With its win, the Sooners are now set to travel to Lawrence, Kansas for an old Big 12-vs.-Big 12 matchup against No. 15 Kansas in the Lawrence Super Regional.
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The latest underdog to send a national seed home is Oklahoma, and in dramatic fashion.
Who's in Super Regionals? Updated bracket, schedule for NCAA Baseball Tournament
Tied 7-7 in the bottom of the 10th inning of the Atlanta Regional, Dayton Tockey got a hold of a 3-2 pitch from Tate McKee and cleared the batter's eye in straight-away center for a walk-off, solo home run. The hit sent the Sooners into the super regionals with an 8-7 win over No. 2 Georgia Tech.
With the loss, Georgia Tech becomes the fifth national seed (at the time of this writing) that won't advance past the regional round. The others were No. 1 UCLA, No. 9 Southern Miss, No. 10 Florida State and No. 13 Nebraska.
Tockey's emphatic swing, which came with a bit of a nonchalant bat flip as he watched the ball fly out of the ballpark, sent the Sooners back to the best-of-three super regionals for the first time since 2022 — the last time the Sooners also last appeared in the College World Series.
The Sooners took an early 3-0 lead after the first inning of Monday's elimination game, with RBIs coming from Deiten Lachance and Dasan Harris. That lead would go away by the end of the sixth inning when the Yellow Jackets took a 7-3 lead after scoring five combined runs across the fifth and sixth innings.
Jaxon Willits tied the game up in the bottom of the ninth with a single into right field to force extra innings. Tockey finished off the come-from-behind win in the 10th with his sixth blast of the season.
Facing elimination from the bracket on Sunday, the Sooners won two games — a 15-5 win over The Citadel in a double-elimination game and a 15-8 win over Georgia Tech in the regional championship — to force the if-necessary game on Monday.
With its win, the Sooners are now set to travel to Lawrence, Kansas for an old Big 12-vs.-Big 12 matchup against No. 15 Kansas in the Lawrence Super Regional.
The USA TODAY app gets you to the heart of the news — fast. Download for award-winning coverage, crosswords, audio storytelling, the eNewspaper and more.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Georgia Tech baseball eliminated from NCAA tournament with Oklahoma HR
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