OMAHA, Neb. — The college baseball season comes down to just one game.
Tennessee evened the best-of-three Men’s College World Series championship series with a 4-1 victory over Texas A&M on Sunday at Charles Schwab Field.
The Southeastern Conference opponents will play a winner-take-all game Monday at 7 p.m. ET.
Dylan Dreiling hit a two-out, two-run homer over the right-field bullpen in the top of the seventh inning on Sunday to end the Volunteers’ drought with runners on base against the The Aggies throw.
His 22nd homer of the season, off little-used freshman reliever Kaiden Wilson, put Tennessee ahead for the first time in the Championship Series after A&M’s Jace LaViolette hit his 29th homer of the season in the first sleeve.
Cal Stark added a two-run shot, his 11th, that cleared the left field bullpen to give the Vols some breathing room in the eighth inning.
A crowd of 25,987 braved scorching conditions — expected to top 100 degrees Monday in Omaha — for another three-hour-plus marathon as these programs battled to win their first national baseball championships. A&M is seeking its first championship in a major men’s team sport since winning a football title in 1939.
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