OTF Premium Texas eliminated from College World Series with a season-ending 2-0 loss to Georgia

[Jeff Howe]

Texas had chances to extend its season in Tuesday’s College World Series elimination game against Georgia. Unfortunately, the Longhorns went 0-for-8 with runners on base and 0-for-5 with runners in scoring position in a 2-0 loss to the Bulldogs, making for a disappointing end to the team’s first trip to Omaha under Jim Schlossnagle.

Texas (46-15) ends the 2026 season three wins shy of the national championship series, which the program hasn’t reached since 2009.

"The bounces didn't go our way tonight," Schlossnagle said. "Really proud of our team and the season we had, finishing in Omaha, and look forward to being back."

While the offense struggled, failing to record an extra-base hit (four hits total) and striking out 12 times against Georgia’s (53-13) pitching staff on Monday, Luke Harrison and Sam Cozart kept the Longhorns in the game.

In his last appearance for the program, Harrison became the first Texas pitcher since Brooks Kieschnick in 1993 to strike out 11 batters in a College World Series game, holding one of the nation’s top offenses to two hits and one run in 5.2 innings. Cozart suffered some hard luck in his College World Series debut, including Dariyan Pendergrass’ overturned diving catch in shallow center for the first out of the seventh inning, which was immediately followed by third baseman Tre Phelps’ single through the right side against the shift to set the table for the Bulldogs’ second run. Still, the freshman scattered three hits and struck out six Georgia batters in 3.1 innings out of the bullpen, including a strikeout with the bases loaded in the top of the sixth.

"I think just the moment, it was big, but I knew that all I had to do was go give it everything I've got," Harrison said. "I really felt like I gave every ounce of what I had today. Obviously, the results were solid, but we weren't able to come out with a win."

The Longhorns had a chance to break the game open in the first inning, putting Dylan Vigue on the ropes with two on and one out after a single up the middle by Carson Tinney and Anthony Pack Jr. working a walk. With a mound visit helping settle him down, Vigue got Adrian Rodriguez to fly out to left field and struck out Ethan Mendoza to get out of the jam.

“Most of his starts, he kind of opens for them," Schlossnagle said. "If he gets it going, then they'll leave him in there a little bit. They had the bullpen up and rolling in the first inning and we had a good guy at the plate in Mendoza — uses the right side of the field really well. He just chased the pitch off the plate.

"We let them get confident and then he started making better pitches and we kept chasing out of the strike zone," he added. "In these games, with two great teams, it's those little moments that change it."

Texas had its next best chance to score with Rodriguez up and runners on first and third with two outs in the bottom of the eighth. Justin Byrd, who struck out four and allowed two hits in five innings of relief after Vigue (two hits, two walks and eight strikeouts in five innings) walked Ashton Larson on four pitches to open the bottom of the sixth, got Rodriguez to ground out to first base, ending the last scoring threat the Longhorns mustered.

In the end, a leadoff walk drawn by first baseman Brennan Hudson in the fifth inning and Phelps' RBI double to left field later in the frame, and center fielder Ryan Lujo's RBI sacrifice fly to left field to score right fielder Ryan Black (which took reviews of Tinney's attempted tag at the plate and whether or not Black left third base early when tagging up to confirm the run) was all of the scoring Georgia needed to end Schlossnagle's second season on the Forty Acres.

Schlossnagle's roster will look a lot different in 2027. Nevertheless, he and the Texas coaches will look to Cozart, Pack, Rodriguez and All-American pitcher Dylan Volantis to lead the program's next quest for an elusive seventh national championship.

"They need to remember this feeling, what it means to be at Texas, what it means to be in Omaha and the fact that our season is over and we didn't accomplish the ultimate thing, which is winning the national title," Schlossnagle said. "It moves on to them."

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[Jeff Howe]

Waiting for the press conference to start.

[TexasEx]

Disappointing showing. 

[Jeff Howe]

Here we go. It's Schloss, Harrison and Tinney.

[Jeff Howe]

Schloss on facing Dylan Vigue: "We didn't execute our approach against him very well."

[Jeff Howe]

Schloss: "I'm proud of the season we had, finishing in Omaha, and look forward to being back."

[Jeff Howe]

On the tag, Tinney said did what he wanted to do in terms of applying the tag. It just didn't work out.

[camridleyfan]

Mississippi State scored 21 runs in two games, we couldn't even get two.

[Jeff Howe]

Luke Harrison said Max Weiner has been very influential in his life. He thanked Weiner for "believing in me whenever I didn't believe in myself."

[Jeff Howe]

Harrison, while fighting back tears: "I'll never wear this uniform again, but I'll be a Longhorn the rest of my life."

[Jordan91]

1 minute ago, camridleyfan said:

Mississippi State scored 21 runs in two games, we couldn't even get two.

It was over when OU beat Georgia yesterday. 

[Longhorn22]

Our 5-9 was terrible. I really hope we hit the portal hard and field a lineup next year that can battle 1-9. Hard to be consistent offensively when you are dependent on 3 guys to perform every game (4 when ARod got more comfortable at the end of the year). Hurts to think if we kept those two portal guys from getting drafted how different our lineup would have been. Do you think that will be an emphasis this offseason? 

[Jeff Howe]

Harrison said he told the team earlier this year that if he didn't make it to Omaha, his time as a Longhorn would be a failure.

"A couple of things didn't go our way," he said, but he's proud that the Longhorns got to Omaha.

"I'll remember this time with a smile forever," he said.

[Jeff Howe]

Harrison: "I gave every ounce I had today."

[Jeff Howe]

Harrison on where the program is as he leaves: "I see it as just getting started."

[Bevohorns]

2 minutes ago, camridleyfan said:

Mississippi State scored 21 runs in two games, we couldn't even get two.

States lineup is better than ours thats why. 

[Jeff Howe]

Harrison: "There's no doubt that the standard will continue to get raised."

[Jeff Howe]

"It's meant everything to me," Tinney said of what it means to wear the Texas uniform.

"I truly believe the coaching staff here changed my life," he said. "I'm just extremely grateful."

[JMarquette]

4 minutes ago, Jeff Howe said:

Harrison, while fighting back tears: "I'll never wear this uniform again, but I'll be a Longhorn the rest of my life."

Luke “Shove God” Harrison fought the last half of the season. 

[Jeff Howe]

On the Pendergrass overturned catch, Schloss said all catch/non-catch plays should be reviewed.

"When I saw the replay, I saw where it could go both ways," he said. "That's just the breaks. It wasn't our night."

 

[Jeff Howe]

Schloss: "We didn't execute well on offense and Georgia's pitching was outstanding."

[Jeff Howe]

Schloss said Georgia had Vigue where they wanted him in the first inning. He liked having Mendoza up there, but he chased a pitch out of the strike zone and Vigue locked in from there.

[Jeff Howe]

Schloss on trying to build on a trip to Omaha: "We've got to get home. We've got a lot of work to do."

[Jeff Howe]

Schloss: "You'd think the kids that are at home... You'd think they'd want to play in the College World Series for teams like Texas."

[Jeff Howe]

Schloss hasn't gotten to talk to the team yet. He wants to gather himself and think about what he's going to say.