Super Sooners: OU Upsets Georgia Tech on Tockey Walkoff

Monday, June 1

Atlanta, Ga.

2 p.m. CT

University of Oklahoma

36-22

Georgia Tech

50-11

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Georgia Tech	0	0	2	0	2	3	0	0	0	0	7	12	2
Oklahoma	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	1	8	13	1

Super Sooners: OU Upsets Georgia Tech on Tockey Walkoff

June 01, 2026 | Baseball

Box Score Highlights Final Stats

ATLANTA — For the second time in the last five years and sixth time in program history, Oklahoma is headed to Super Regionals.

Facing one of the best offenses in college baseball history, the Sooners stunned No. 2 national seed Georgia Tech with its second straight comeback victory in Monday's winner-take-all matchup, beating the Yellow Jackets 8-7 in 10 innings.

Senior Dayton Tockey was the hero, hitting a solo home run 454 feet over the batter's eye in center field to walk the game off and send Oklahoma to the Lawrence Super Regional, hosted by Kansas, this weekend.

After OU (36-22) jumped out to an early 3-0 lead on a Deiten Lachance two-run home run and Dasan Harris RBI single, Georgia Tech (50-11) would score the game's next seven runs to build a 7-3 lead into the seventh inning.

A day after erasing a six-run lead, the Sooners would claw back from Monday's four-run deficit starting with a two-run seventh. Kyle Branch led off the inning with a double, followed by a Jason Walk single before a fielder's choice to Camden Johnson allowed Branch to race home for the first run of the frame. Two batters later, Jaxon Willits ripped a double down the left line to score Johnson from first.

To the eighth, a fielder's choice and error by the GT pitcher on a comeback ball to the mound allowed OU's sixth run to cross home. In the ninth, Willits came through again after Johnson led off the inning with a walk. The junior shortstop singled to right field to tie the game at seven and send the game to extras.

OU right-handed pitcher Jackson Cleveland worked his third straight scoreless inning at the top of the 10th, putting down the Yellow Jackets in order for the second straight inning, setting the stage for the OU offense to walk the game off.

Leading off the bottom of the 10th, on a 3-2 count versus Georgia Tech's Friday night starting pitcher, Tockey blasted the walkoff home run to dead center. It was OU's first walkoff win in the NCAA Tournament since 2008 and sent the Sooners to Super Regionals for the first time since 2022.

OU utilized four pitchers in the contest with Cleveland earning his third win of the season in relief. The senior went a season-long 3.2 innings of scoreless, hitless ball with four strikeouts, tying a season high. Sophomore starting right-handed pitcher Michael Catalano went three innings, surrendering two runs on four hits with two walks and one strikeout. Other relievers Jason Bodin (2.2 IP) and Brisco Smith (0.2) saw action with Bodin fanning three.

LJ Mercurius (P), Deiten Lachance (C) and Jaxon Willits (SS) were named to the Atlanta Regional All-Tournament Team with Lachance being crowned the weekend's Most Outstanding Player, hitting .318 in the regional with two home runs and seven RBIs.

NCAA ATLANTA REGIONAL ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM

P – L.J. Mercurius, OU
P – Mason Patel, GT
C (tie) – Deiten Lachance, OU & Vahn Lackey, GT
1B – Will Flanigan, UIC
2B – Jarren Advincula, GT
3B – Ryan Zuckerman, GT
SS – Jaxon Willits, OU
LF – Parker Brosius, GT
CF – Drew Burress, GT
RF – Alex Hernandez, GT
DH – Michael Gibson – CIT
Most Outstanding Player – Deiten Lachance, OU

Up Next

The Sooners meet host and No. 15 national seed Kansas at the best-of-three Lawrence Super Regional this weekend. Dates, times and broadcast information will be announced Tuesday at approximately 9 a.m. CT. Ticket information will also be available soon via SoonerSports.com/tickets.

Notes

OU moved to 36-22 on the year with the win and advanced to the program's sixth Super Regional in school history. It is the first Supers appearance since the 2022 College World Series team defeated Virginia Tech in the Blacksburg Super Regional.
Tockey's walkoff home run was the first walkoff victory in the NCAA Tournament for the Sooners since the 2008 NCAA Tempe Regional, when Aaron Baker walked off Vanderbilt, 11-10, on June 1, 2008, or 16 years ago to the day.
OU's consecutive wins over Georgia Tech marked just the third time this season the No. 2 Yellow Jackets lost back-to-back games.
Since May 9 at Arkansas (11 games), Oklahoma has hit 28 home runs.
OU scored 49 runs on 66 hits in its five regional games this weekend.
Dayton Tockey hit his third home run of the regional and sixth of the season. Five of the six homers have come in his last seven games played dating back to May 16.
Deiten Lachance hit his 14th home run of the season and second in as many games after hitting the go-ahead grand slam in OU's win over GT Sunday night.
Jaxon Willits registered his third three-hit game of the season.
Jackson Cleveland went a season-high 3.2 innings in relief, earning his third win of the season. The senior transfer tied his season best with four strikeouts.