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OMAHA, Neb. – Oklahoma (41-22) meets No. 5 seed North Carolina (53-12-1) in the best-of-three CWS Championship Series beginning Saturday at 2 p.m. CT on ESPN. Game 2 is slated for a 1:30 p.m. start Sunday on ABC. Karl Ravech, Kyle Peterson, Chris Burke and Kris Budden will be on the call.
All games can be heard on the radio via The REF 99.3 FM/1400 AM and 107.7 The Franchise in Oklahoma and on The Varsity Network app with Toby Rowland and Carly Murray on the call. Tickets for the Men’s College World Series are available via NCAAtickets.com.
THE BASICS
• The Sooners advanced to the champ series with a 3-0 start in Omaha, beating seven-seed Alabama 9-0 last Saturday before beating No. 3 seed Georgia twice (4-3, 11-4).
• OU is making its second CWS finals appearance in the last five years and fourth championship showing all-time (1951, ’94, 2022).
• OU has been led by a trio of freshman pitchers, Cord Rager, Xander Mercurius and Nick Wesloski, en route to the champ series. Rager went seven innings of three-hit ball while striking out eight vs. Alabama, while Mercurius shut down the UGA offense in the first meeting, hurling 7.1 innings of three-run ball with a career-high nine strikeouts. Wesloski took his turn vs. UGA, going 5.2 innings and surrendering one earned run on four hits with four K’s.
• OU is making its 12th CWS appearance in program history and second in the last five years this week in Omaha, Neb., at Charles Schwab Field Omaha.
• Oklahoma is seeking its third national title, winning titles in 1951 and 1994.
• En route to the CWS finals, Oklahoma has gone through the ACC regular season and tournament champ (Georgia Tech), the Big 12 regular season and tournament champ (Kansas) and the SEC regular season and tournament champ (Georgia).
Read more about OU Baseball in the College World Series Championship games.
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