Oklahoma rolls past Tar Heels 13-2 for 1st baseball national championship since 1994 and SEC’s 7th in a row

“I think we knew the talent was always in the room,” said Jaxon Willits, named the College World Series’ most outstanding player. “We got hot at the right time, and now we’re national champions.”

OMAHA, Neb. — The way its regular season unfolded, a national championship for Oklahoma would have seemed impossible.

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The way the postseason unfolded, well, there was no stopping the Sooners.

OU completed the improbable run to its first national championship since 1994 with a 13-2 victory over North Carolina in the winner-take-all Game 3 of the College World Series finals Monday night, a performance that featured the prodigious offensive production and clutch pitching the Sooners rode through the NCAA Tournament.