Jason Walk and Dasan Harris combined for four homers as Oklahoma routed Georgia 11-4 Wednesday night, sending the Sooners to the College World Series championship round against North Carolina starting Saturday.
OMAHA, Neb. — By the time the fourth inning opened the way for another long ball, it felt like Oklahoma’s power had already decided the night.
Jason Walk and Dasan Harris each launched two home runs in an 11-4 win over Georgia on Wednesday night. with Trey Gambill also going deep as the Sooners punched their ticket to the College World Series finals. Oklahoma (41-22) will meet North Carolina in the best-of-three championship round beginning Saturday night.
It’s the first time since 2022 that Oklahoma has reached the finals, and this run sets up a chance at a third national title in baseball.
Oklahoma’s offensive surge has been building for weeks, and the numbers reflect it. The Sooners hit five home runs in the game. a season high. and the performance continued the stretch they’ve been on since the second week of May. OU has already launched 43 of its 91 homers in the last 16 games, including 26 in 10 NCAA Tournament games. Early in the season, it managed 48 homers in its first 47 games.
Walk and Harris weren’t just a surprise burst—they were unexpected pillars of it. Each entered Wednesday’s game with four home runs.
Walk got things started in the third inning with a wind-aided flyball that traveled 417 feet over the wall in straightaway center field. Then, in the fourth inning, Gambill and Harris both homered, helping make it 4-0 and chase Georgia starter Paul Farley (8-2).
Harris and Walk connected again in the eighth, when their second round of power stretched the game into a six-run Oklahoma lead.
Harris finished with five runs batted in, the most RBIs he’s had in 107 career games. Three of his six home runs have come in the last four games.
On the mound. Oklahoma freshman starter Nick Wesloski (2-1) kept Georgia at bay for the first five innings. limiting the Bulldogs to one run. Trouble arrived in the sixth. After Wesloski was pulled with two outs and two runners on base, an error loaded the bases. Reliever LJ Mercurius walked in two runs, turning a jam into separation.
Mercurius earned his fourth save after allowing one run on two hits in 3 1/3 innings.
Georgia’s season had been built on offense. The Bulldogs entered the College World Series leading the nation with a program-record 174 homers. They were also in the top five nationally with 9.4 runs per game and a .326 batting average.
But Charles Schwab Field played differently for them. Georgia struggled in a wide-open ballpark, and while they did find a late answer—Kolby Branch hit a ninth-inning homer—the Bulldogs finished with five runs in four CWS games. They averaged four runs per game and hit .183.
Daniel Jackson, the Dick Howser Trophy winner as the nation’s player of the year, ended the night with a difficult line at the plate: he batted .157 with a home run Monday that gave him 32 for the year.
Oklahoma’s surge carried it into the championship round, where the Sooners will now face North Carolina starting Saturday night.
College World Series Oklahoma Sooners Georgia Bulldogs Jason Walk Dasan Harris Trey Gambill North Carolina Omaha
Walk and Harris???? Sounds like a superhero duo lol.
So they hit 4 homers combined and now they play North Carolina? Georgia was just giving them pitches then? Either way, congrats Oklahoma.
Wait I thought Oklahoma already won the CWS before like last year or whatever. The article says it’s the first time since 2022 which… feels wrong? Also the wind-aided 417 feet thing is wild, like how windy is Omaha even.
Bro they hit FIVE homers and it was a season high but then it says OU only had 48 homers in first 47 games?? That math don’t even sound right to me. I’m pretty sure Georgia pitching is done for the year though, like once you get down 4-0 it’s over. North Carolina better bring the same lineup or Oklahoma’s just gonna sit there and mash again.