The #8 University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) Running Rebels finished a magical run in the NCAA Tournament with their first NCAA Division I Baseball Title by defeating the #4 Oklahoma Sooners 4-2 in the College World Series at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Nebraska on Sunday evening. Mississippi went from the last team into the field of 64 to the last one standing, as the Rebels win the best of three Championship Series over the Sooners 2-0.
After a 10-3 win in Game 1 over Oklahoma on Saturday, Ole Miss (42-23) was in a 0-0 stalemate with the Sooners on Sunday until the sixth inning. A one out solo homerun in the last of the sixth by Jacob Gonzalez made it 1-0 Rebels. An RBI double by Jackson Nicklaus and a bases loaded walk to Kendall Pettis however would push Oklahoma (45-24) in front 2-1 in the top of the seventh. That lead would hold until the last of the eighth inning, before Gonzalez did it again with an RBI single to tie it. The game winning run would end up scoring on a wild pitch by Sooners reliever Trevin Michael, as Justin Bench came across the plate. Another wild one by Michael would score Gonzalez for a two run Ole Miss advantage. Brandon Johnson finished it off by striking out the side in the top of the ninth to send off the celebration and dogpile on the mound.
Dylan DeLucia, who pitched 16.2 innings in two wins at the World Series for Ole Miss, was named the College World Series MVP. Gonzalez had three hits on the night in the clincher with two RBI, and adding the insurance run by scoring on the wild pitch in the eighth. The Rebels, who lost their opener of the SEC Tournament to Vanderbilt, went 3-0 at the Regionals and 2-0 at the Super Regional. After winning their first game of the World Series over #7 Auburn, they were able to knock off #3 Arkansas in three games to reach the Championship Series with Oklahoma. The Big 12 Champion Sooners survived a three game series in the Regionals with Florida, and in the Super Regional with Virginia Tech to find their way to Omaha.
