Georgia gets another strong pitching performance against Texas, wins 2-0 to reach CWS bracket final

by | Jun 17, 2026 | Sports

OMAHA, Neb. — Dylan Vigue and Justin Byrd combined on a four-hitter and Georgia made the most of its few offensive opportunities to oust Texas from the College World Series with a 2-0 victory Tuesday night.The Bulldogs (53-13) beat the Longhorns (46-15) twice in four days to advance to the Bracket 2 final against Oklahoma. Georgia would have to beat the Sooners on Wednesday and again Thursday to go to the best-of-three championship round for the first time since 2008.The Bulldogs, who struck out 17 times and had just five hits against Luke Harrison and Sam Cozart, scored single runs in the fifth and seventh innings and relied on a strong pitching encore to Joey Volchko’s 15-strikeout four-hitter in a 7-1 win over Longhorns on Saturday.“We were going to have to be able to grind out a great pitcher like (Harrison),” Georgia leadoff man Tre Phelps said. “When they’re having a great guy on the mound, putting things where he wants, we’re going to have to fight as a collective, as a hitting group, and put the ball in play and not go down as many times as we did.”Vigue allowed two hits and struck out eight in four innings and Byrd ( …

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