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2025 NCAA Baseball Tournament: Oklahoma State hits walk-off bomb, eliminates Georgia in Athens Regional

Chandler Vesselsby: Chandler Vessels06/01/25ChandlerVessels
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Another regional host went down on Sunday in dramatic fashion as Oklahoma State came back in the ninth inning to beat No. 7 overall seed Georgia in an elimination game in Athens. The Cowboys entered the inning down two runs but scored four to pull off the 11-9 walk-off win.

Kollin Ritchie got the scoring started with a two-run homer in the bottom of the inning to even things up after Nolan Schubart got on-base via walk. A couple of plays later, Alex Conover beat the throw to reach first base on a fielder’s choice. That set the stage for the storybook ending as freshman Brock Thompson stepped up and blasted a two-run shot to left field to put the Bulldogs away.

“I remember going up there and Josh (Holliday) was talking to me, saying he’s gonna throw me all the way,” Thompson said postgame on ESPN2 of his walk-off homer. “So I kinda just got super high on the dish and I used right and just threw it all away. So it made it pretty easy to get that ball in the barrel and hit it the other way.”

The victory is even more impressive considering that the Cowboys were one of the last four teams to make the tournament. They suffered a loss against Duke in their first game of Regional play on Friday before turning around to defeat Binghamton on Saturday to keep their season alive.

Oklahoma State went up 3-0 on Georgia after the first two innings in Sunday’s game. However, the Bulldogs answered with five runs in the third inning to take its first lead of the game.

Georgia extended their lead as much as 7-3 before the Cowboys battled back in the fifth to score four runs and tie the score at 7 apiece. But the Bulldogs added one run each in the seventh and eighth innings to put the pressure on OSU entering the final inning.

Of course, the Cowboys delivered to keep their season alive. They now advance to face Duke at 5 p.m. CT on Sunday. If they win that game, it would force a winner-take-all matchup on Monday with the victor advancing to Super Regionals.

“It feels good,” Thompson said of knocking out Georgia. “That’s what we were talking about this morning and that was our goal. So no one’s super surprised in here right now getting ready for this game.”