LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas will host a super regional for the first time in program history after Oklahoma completed a dramatic run through the Atlanta Regional with an 8-7, 10-inning victory over Georgia Tech on Monday night.
Dayton Tockey hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 10th inning to eliminate the No. 2 national seed Yellow Jackets and send the Sooners to Lawrence for a best-of-three series against their former Big 12 rival.
The Lawrence Super Regional will begin Friday or Saturday at Hoglund Ballpark. The schedule is expected to be announced Tuesday morning.
Kansas advanced by winning all three of its games in the Lawrence Regional. The Jayhawks defeated Northeastern 6-3 on Friday, Arkansas 5-3 on Saturday and Arkansas 13-10 in Sunday night’s regional championship game.
KU is two victories away from reaching the College World Series for the second time in program history.
Oklahoma took a more difficult path to the super regional.
The Sooners entered the Atlanta Regional as the No. 2 seed after finishing 11th in the SEC with a 35-22 overall record and a 14-16 conference mark.
Oklahoma opened the regional with an 8-3 victory over The Citadel on Friday before falling to Georgia Tech 9-3 on Saturday. The Sooners stayed alive with a 15-5 win over The Citadel on Sunday and then rallied from an 8-2 deficit to beat Georgia Tech 15-8 later that night.
The Sooners needed another comeback in Monday’s winner-take-all game.
Oklahoma held an early 3-0 lead before Georgia Tech scored seven runs and took a 7-3 advantage into the bottom of the seventh inning. The Sooners scored twice in the seventh and added another run in the eighth to pull within 7-6.
Jaxon Willits delivered a game-tying RBI single in the ninth inning before Tockey ended the game with his home run in the 10th.
Jackson Cleveland kept Oklahoma alive on the mound by pitching 3 2/3 scoreless and hitless innings in relief.
The super regional will feature two programs that were conference opponents before Oklahoma left the Big 12 for the SEC. The Sooners lead the all-time series against Kansas 175-97-1.