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Texas Baseball clinches SEC regular season title

by:Evan Vieth•05/15/25
Dylan Volantis
Dylan Volantis (Aaron E. Martinez/American-Statesman / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

The Texas Longhorns are SEC champions in their first year in the conference.

Entering the series with a firm lead in the SEC title race, Texas needed to win one game to clinch a share of the SEC title. It didn’t take long for the Horns to do so, even in the hostile Oklahoma environment, as they took down the Sooners 7-4 in the first game of the series.

With a two-game lead in the SEC title race, Texas’ magic number was just one to secure a co-share and two to win the conference outright. The Longhorns then received help from Tennessee later in the night, with the Volunteers taking down the second-place Arkansas Razorbacks 10-7. With a Texas win and an Arkansas loss, Texas officially becomes the outright champions of the SEC in their first year.

The Red River Rivals played an action-packed game featuring multiple ties and a late-inning offensive explosion for Texas. The Sooners got to starting LHP Kade Bing early, chasing him out in the second inning after two earned runs. A third came in the fifth inning, and Oklahoma was up 3-1 heading into the seventh.

Texas responded with two runs of their own thanks to a two-run single from Tommy Farmer IV. The centerfielder ended the game with three hits, two RBIs, and two runs, starting ahead of Will Gasparino.

Both teams exchanged runs in the eighth, tying the game at four heading into the last inning. Texas started the top of the ninth with two baserunners thanks to Farmer and errors from the Sooners, leaving Max Belyeu in his biggest at-bat of the season—his first game back from a six-week-long injury.

Belyeu pounced on the first pitch, sending the ball deep to straightaway center. Home run.

Belyeu’s three-run homer in his first game back was monumental for the struggling Horns offense, snatching the lead and putting the Horns in a prime position to take hold of the SEC title. With LHP Dylan Volantis on the mound in the bottom of the ninth, it was no question that Texas would secure the win.

Texas is now 41-10 on the season and 21-7 in the SEC, the best debut season for any SEC program in conference history. The Longhorns are conference champions, and a win tonight would all but secure the No. 1 overall seed in the postseason.

The Longhorns and Sooners will square off again tomorrow at 6:30 PM, with the Longhorns able to wrap up their final series of the regular season with a win.

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