Georgia
Oklahoma
ATLANTA, Ga. (05/29/2026) — The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets answered a tie game with six unanswered runs to pull away from the Oklahoma Sooners 9-3 on Friday at Mac Nease Baseball Park, with Parker Brosius launching a pair of home runs and driving in four.
How It Happened
Georgia Tech struck first in the second inning, when Brosius homered to right and brought K. Schmidt around to score for a 2-0 lead. Oklahoma trimmed the margin in the third as Jason Walk came home on a throwing error by Tech starter Tate McKee, making it 2-1.
The Yellow Jackets answered in the fourth, when Vahn Lackey homered to left to push the lead back to two at 3-1. From there, the Sooners chipped away one swing at a time. Dayton Tockey homered to left in the fifth to cut the deficit to 3-2, and Jaxon Willits homered to right leading off the sixth to even the game at 3-3 — the only tie of the night.
Turning Point
The deadlock did not last. Later in that same sixth inning, Brosius struck again, homering to right and scoring Ryan Zuckerman to put Georgia Tech back in front 5-3. That swing flipped a tied game into a two-run lead and triggered a decisive 6-0 run that carried the Yellow Jackets the rest of the way.
Georgia Tech blew the game open in the seventh. Zuckerman drew a bases-loaded walk that scored D. Burress for a 6-3 edge, and Alex Hernandez followed with a single to left center that plated both Jarren Advincula and Lackey to make it 8-3. W. Baker capped the rally with a sacrifice fly to left that brought Zuckerman home for the final margin of 9-3. The three-run seventh turned a competitive game into a comfortable one.
Star of the Game
Brosius was the difference. The Georgia Tech slugger finished 2-for-3 with two runs, four RBI, two home runs and a walk, accounting for nearly half of his team's runs by himself. His second-inning blast set the tone, and his sixth-inning shot broke the tie for good.
He had plenty of help. Lackey went 1-for-3 with a home run, two runs, an RBI and two walks, while Zuckerman reached three times — a single, a walk and another walk — scored twice and drove in a run. Hernandez chipped in a 2-for-5 night with two RBI, and Advincula reached safely twice and scored once.
On the mound, McKee gave Georgia Tech length and strikeouts, working 6.0 innings while allowing five hits and three runs with eight strikeouts. Caden Gaudette followed with a scoreless inning, and Dylan Loy closed it out with two perfect frames, allowing no hits and striking out two.
Oklahoma's Xander Mercurius matched McKee's strikeout total, fanning eight over 5.2 innings, but surrendered seven hits and five runs. The Sooners' bullpen kept things close late, as Trent Collier and Mason Bixby combined for two scoreless innings, with Bixby striking out two over 1.1 frames.
At the plate, Oklahoma got home runs from Willits (1-for-3, run, RBI, walk) and Tockey (1-for-3, run, RBI), while Kyle Branch led the way with a 2-for-3 effort. Walk reached three times on a hit and two walks and scored the run that briefly drew Oklahoma within one.
What It Means
Georgia Tech showed the kind of two-out and late-inning damage that wins games in the postseason, answering every Oklahoma push and then delivering the knockout blow with a six-run surge across the sixth and seventh innings. The Yellow Jackets got a complete effort — power at the top of the order from Brosius and Lackey, a quality start from McKee, and a bullpen that did not allow a hit over the final three innings.
For Oklahoma, the loss came despite genuine fight. The Sooners erased a 3-1 deficit with solo home runs from Tockey and Willits to draw even in the sixth, and Mercurius gave them length on the mound. But the seventh inning got away from them, and a tied game quickly became a six-run hole. Oklahoma will look to carry its late-game power and bullpen work forward, while Georgia Tech leaves Mac Nease Baseball Park with a convincing 9-3 victory.
