North Carolina pitchers Ryan Lynch and Caden Glauber held Oklahoma’s offense in check and the offense did enough to lift the Tar Heels to a 6-2 win in Game 2 of the Men’s College World Series Championship Series to even the series and force a decisive third game.<\/p>\n
The teams will meet again Monday with North Carolina looking for their first title in program history while the Sooners are looking to win the program’s third championship.<\/p>\n
Erik Paulsen Jr. had three hits and a run scored on the first Father’s Day since his father, a former NYPD detective who was a part of the 9\/11 response at the World Trade Center, died of cancer.<\/p>\n
The Sooners took the lead, scoring two in the bottom of the first inning to score first for the eighth consecutive game.<\/p>\n
Oklahoma took the lead on a throwing error by catcher Colin Hynek on a double steal by Jason Walk and Camden Johnson, then Johnson came around to score on Jaxon Willits’ RBI double to right center.<\/p>\n
After Xander Mercurius struck out the side in each of the first two innings, North Carolina finally broke through in the third against the freshman.<\/p>\n
Jake Schaffner tied it with a triple into the right-field corner after Carter French drew a leadoff walk and Rom Kellis V singled to put the tying runs on base.<\/p>\n
Schaffner scored on a wild pitch and then the Tar Heels loaded the bases with one out but Mercurius struck out back-to-back hitters to escape without further damage.<\/p>\n
Owen Hull led off the fifth with a no-doubt home run to right to make it 4-2 and drive Mercurius from the game.<\/p>\n
North Carolina added two more on Cooper Nicholson’s two-run homer in the seventh after Paulsen’s double.<\/p>\n
After Willits’ first-inning double, Oklahoma had just two hits and didn’t have a runner reach second the rest of the way.<\/p>\n
Lynch ultimately went four innings with one walk and five strikeouts before giving way to the freshman phenom Glauber.<\/p>\n
Glauber’s dominance was on display from the start, as he struck out the side in the fifth.<\/p>\n
He finished with eight strikeouts in five scoreless innings to close the game.<\/p>\n
The Tar Heels are now 29-0 in games where Glauber pitches this season.<\/p>\n
Trey Gambell’s two-out single in the sixth was the only hit the Sooners managed off Glauber.<\/p>\n
Deiten LaChance, who homered twice in Saturday’s Game 1, made a bid for another home run in the eighth but French made a leaping catch at the wall to end the inning.<\/p>\n
Glauber walked back-to-back hitters with one out in the ninth before getting Dasan Harris to ground into a double play to end the game.<\/p>\n
Oklahoma used seven pitchers in the loss.<\/p>\n
–Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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