Rocco's, Marucci honor Tennessee's jello shot competition on Wall of Champions
The Tennessee Volunteers completed the trifecta in college baseball this year, winning the SEC regular season title, the SEC Tournament title, and the national title. It’s the type of stuff that fans dream of their whole lives and the Volunteers got to live that out in the 2024 season.
Not only that, but the Volunteers also had plenty of fan support in Omaha to help them bring home the title belt in Rocco’s for drinking the most jello shots.
And Rocco’s and Marucci decided to team up to commemorate the Vols’ amazing year on the diamond and in the bar at Rocco’s. Check out the cool baseball bats they dropped on the CWS Jello Shot Challenge on Friday night.
Here are the final results from Rocco’s Jello Shot Challenge for 2024. Each of the shots were $5 and all the different fan bases of the schools competed to see who could buy the most. And Tennessee brought home the crown this year with 38,799 jello shots, which is why that’s carved on the bat above.
Tennessee claims their first ever national crown
The Vols were the team to beat all season, and they defeated the Texas A&M Aggies 6-5 in Game 3 of the 2024 Men’s College World Series to claim their university’s first college baseball title.
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It didn’t take long for Tennessee to strike first. In the bottom of the fourth inning, Vols slugger Christian Moore stepped up to the plate against Texas A&M ace Justin Lamkin and sent a towering solo home run over the fence into the left field bleachers.
Texas A&M answered back with a tying run in the third. Graham Grahovac knocked in a run from a base hit to left field to score center fielder Travis Chestnut.
Tennessee didn’t leave the tie on the scoreboard for long, however. Dylan Dreiling scored teammate Blake Burke on a sac-fly in the bottom of the third before a Dean Curley single added another run to push the lead to 3-1.
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The Aggies were held to one run through five innings thanks to the handy arm of Vols starter Zander Sechrist. Other than the run in the third inning, he held Texas A&M scoreless through 5.1 innings pitched. While he let up six hits, Sechrist was able to strike out seven Aggies batters while walking just one. He threw 88 pitches during his final outing of the season.
He was relieved by Nate Snead in the sixth inning after Sechrist allowed two Texas A&M runners on base to begin the inning. Snead escaped the inning unscathed, and Tennessee decided to break open the score from there.
In the bottom of the seventh, Dreiling kept his bat hot as he was able to just send the ball over the fence over the outstretched arms of Texas A&M’s outfield and into the bullpen to score two more runs. Kavares Tears almost matched Dreiling’s effort two batters later, but the ball stayed inside the park and fell for an RBI double. All of a sudden, Tennessee boasted a five-run lead heading into the eighth inning.
Texas A&M would not go down without a fight, however. A couple of wild pitches from Tennessee saw Jackson Appel advance to third base with one out. Hayden Schott brought him home on a base hit into the middle gap. Caden Sorrell brought Schott home from first base on another gap-shot double to right field.
This brought out Tennessee closer Kirby Connell with five outs to log before victory and despite a bit of drama, struck out two more Aggies batters to send the game into the ninth inning.
More drama ensued as Texas A&M’s bats awoke in the late stages of the national championship game, but Aaron Combs finished off the Aggies despite their best effort.
On3’s Barkley Truax also contributed to this article.