Sooners Meet Kansas in Lawrence for Super Regionals

Saturday, June 6

Lawrence, KS

5 p.m. CT

University of Oklahoma

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Sooners Meet Kansas in Lawrence for Super Regionals

June 05, 2026 | Baseball

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LAWRENCE, Kan. – Oklahoma (36-22) makes its sixth NCAA Super Regional appearance in program history this weekend in Lawrence, Kan., at No. 15 seed Kansas (45-16).

The best-of-three series begins Saturday with a 5 p.m. CT first pitch prior to a 5 p.m. start Sunday. Monday's if-necessary game is TBA. Game one will be broadcast on ESPN2 with TV designations for game two and three to be determined. Gregg Olson and Victor Rojas will be on the call.

All games can be heard on the radio via The REF 99.3 FM/1400 AM in Oklahoma and on The Varsity Network app with Toby Rowland and Carly Murray on the call.

THE BASICS

• Oklahoma enters Supers at 36-22 after winning the Atlanta Regional, upsetting host and No. 2 national seed Georgia Tech.

• The Sooners powered themselves to the regional victory with 11 home runs, 17 extra-base hits and 49 runs. The 15-man pitching staff racked up 45 strikeouts across the five games.

• On the season, OU is outscoring opponents 400-329 and the pitching staff has a team ERA of 5.28 with 579 strikeouts to 259 walks.

• The Sooners started the season with a program-record seven straight games scoring double digits and have scored 10+ runs in 15 games, including two of the last three and four of the last 10 games.

OU IN THE NCAA TOURNEY

• This is Oklahoma's 43rd NCAA Tournament appearance and fifth straight. The Sooners are 105-87 all-time in the NCAA postseason, and won national championships in 1951 and 1994.

• Oklahoma has won 15 regionals, appeared in six Super Regionals (including 2026) and has advanced to the College World Series 11 times (1951, '72, '73, '74, '75, '76, '92, '94, '95, 2010 and '22)

• The Sooners are making their sixth appearance in a Super Regional. Oklahoma won the 2022 Super Regional vs. Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., and the 2010 Super Regional vs. Virginia in Charlottesville, Va., and played in Super Regionals in 2006 (at Rice), '12 (at South Carolina) and '13 (at LSU).

• Overall, Oklahoma is 6-8 in Super Regional games.

OPPONENT OUTLOOK

• The No. 15 seed Kansas Jayhawks are 45-16 and won both the Big 12 regular season and tournament titles.

• KU advanced to Supers by sweeping through its own regional in Lawrence, taking down Arkansas in the regional final.

• On the season, the Jayhawks are batting .289 as a team with 110 home runs, a number that ranks 11th nationally. On the bump, their staff has a 5.31 team ERA with 595 strikeouts.

• Tyson LeBlanc paces the offense with a program single-season record 24 home runs and a .344 batting average. On the mound, RHP Dominic Voegele leads the team with 117 strikeouts while closer Boede Rahe has made 30 appearances and has 11 saves.

• All-time, OU holds a 169-90-2 advantage over the Jayhawks with matchups dating back to 1942.

• The Sooners and Jayhawks most recently met in OU's last season in the Big 12 in 2024. Oklahoma beat Kansas twice at the Big 12 Tournament in Arlington, capped by a walkoff home run off the bat of Jackson Nicklaus to send OU past the Jayhawks into the title game.

• The most recent meeting between the programs in Lawrence came in 2022, an OU series sweep that saw the Sooners outscore the Jayhawks 46-12.

UP NEXT

• With a series win this weekend, Oklahoma would advance to the program's 12th College World Series and second in the last five years.

• The winner of the Lawrence Super Regional matches up in the first round of the CWS with the winner of the Tuscaloosa Super Regional featuring No. 7 national seed Alabama and St. John's.

• The College World Series begins June 12 and runs through June 22. All games will air on ESPN Networks.

TOCK'D 'EM OFF

• Senior Dayton Tockey etched his name in Sooner lore with his 10th-inning walkoff home run vs. No. 2 Georgia Tech last Monday to clinch OU's Super Regional berth.

• 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.

• Tockey was a major factor in OU's regional victory, hitting .438 (7-16) with three home runs and five RBIs in five games. The first baseman also drew a team-high five walks and scored six runs.

• A two-year Sooner and JUCO product from Fort Worth, Texas, Tockey has played in over 70 games for OU and made 62 starts.

• The senior has six home runs on the season with four of the six coming in his last seven games played dating back to May 16.

• Since the final week of the regular season (7 GS), Tockey is batting .421 (8-19) with four home runs and seven RBIs.

BIG MAPLE

• From Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, OU junior Deiten Lachance has come on strong the latter half of the season for the Sooners, contributing to OU's offensive surge.

• The 6-5, 230-pound Sooner catcher had zero home runs entering OU's weekend at Vanderbilt (April 9) and has hit 14 in the 26 games since to lead all Sooners.

• Lachance has homered in two straight games, four of OU's last eight and nine of the last 14.

• His fourth-inning go-ahead grand slam Sunday vs. No. 2 Georgia Tech helped OU erase a six-run deficit to force the winner-take-all matchup on Monday.

• Lachance put OU up early with his second home run in as many games vs. the Yellow Jackets in Monday's regional championship, a two-run shot in the first.

• In game three vs. Tennessee (5/16), Lachance hit three home runs, becoming the first Sooner since 2000 to accomplish the feat.

BRINGING THE GOOD BATS

• OU has 28 home runs in its last 11 games (since May 9), including five games with three-plus blasts in that span.

• The Sooner bats exploded in Atlanta, hitting .359 with 49 runs on 66 hits, 11 home runs, 17 extra-base hits and a .571 team slugging percentage. Five starters batted over .400 in the regional, led by shortstop Jaxon Willits' .500 (9-18) average.

• Tockey paced OU with three home runs, while Brendan Brock, Trey Gambill and Deiten Lachance all hit two across OU's five games.

• In OU's Sunday win over GT, the Sooners' 15 runs and 18 hits were both season highs surrendered by Georgia Tech. OU's six-run comeback was also the largest the Yellow Jackets' had allowed on the year.

• Outside of Lachance and Tockey's hot streaks, third baseman Camden Johnson and outfielder Dasan Harris have also come on strong the back half of the season.

• Since April 17 (22 GP), Johnson is hitting .352 (31-of-88) with 16 RBIs, 21 runs scored and seven extra-base hits.

• Since April 9 (26 GP), Harris is hitting .400 (34-of-85) with 16 RBIs, 16 runs scored and 12 extra-base hits.

• Lachance paces the starters with a .333 batting average, while Johnson is close with a .310 average. Lachance leads OU with 14 home runs, followed by fellow junior Brendan Brock's 12 blasts, Johnson's eight and senior Trey Gambill's eight. Twelve Sooners have combined for 76 blasts.

• The Sooners have homered in 38 of 58 games.

• OU ranks first in the SEC and 17th in the country with 17 triples on the season.

• The team started the season with a program-record seven straight games scoring double digits and have scored 10+ runs in 15 games.

POSTSEASON PITCHING

• OU utilized 15 arms to win the Atlanta Regional, using every available arm that made the trip.

• The staff struck out 45 batters to 24 walks and allowed a .259 opponent batting average with 24 earned runs.

• Skip Johnson started true freshmen three games in a row to make it to the regional final: LHP Cord Rager, RHP Xander Mercurius and RHP Nick Wesloski. Junior LHP Cameron Johnson and sophomore RHP Michael Catalano started OU's final two games.

• RHP LJ Mercurius was nails out of the bullpen. In two appearances, the former weekend starter for the Sooners hurled seven shutout innings with seven strikeouts and no runs allowed on just three hits, none going for extra-bases. He earned his first two saves of the season after entering the weekend with one in his career.

• In Saturday's start vs. The Citadel, Rager went a season-long 6.0 IP and tied a career best with eight strikeouts.

• Wesloski made his first career start in the rematch vs. The Citadel on Sunday, going a career-high 7.0 innings and striking out four while surrendering three earned runs and walking two.

• Even in OU's lone loss of the weekend, Xander Mercurius was impressive against the high-powered GT offense, striking out a career-best eight while allowing five runs on seven hits with three walks.

• Sooner closer Jackson Cleveland was exceptional in the late innings for OU, striking out seven in 6.2 innings across two appearances. In Monday's regional final, Cleveland earned 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.

THE SKIPPER SURPASSES 300 WINS

• OU head coach Skip Johnson surpassed career win No. 300 at the Division I level last weekend with OU's regional-opening win over The Citadel.

• Oklahoma is in its ninth season under the direction Johnson. Johnson, who spent the 2017 season on staff as an assistant coach, has led the Sooners to a 303-197 record, five NCAA Tournament appearances, the 2024 Big 12 regular season title, 2022 Big 12 tournament championship and the 2022 College World Series finals since taking over as head coach prior to the 2018 season.

• Johnson holds over 700 career wins as a head coach, earning 450 at Navarro (TX) College before making the jump to Division I baseball where he's won 299 at OU. Johnson was on staff at the University of Texas under head coach Augie Garrido for 10 seasons before coming to Oklahoma.

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