UNC baseball is going to Game 3 after North Carolina beat Oklahoma 6-2 on Sunday afternoon in Game 2 of the MCWS finals. The win turned a close championship series into a winner-take-all finish on Monday at 7 p.m. ET.
Caden Glauber in relief
Caden Glauber handled the biggest stretch of the game for North Carolina. The freshman righty worked five relief innings, struck out eight and allowed one hit.
That was the line that changed the shape of Game 2. Glauber became the third reliever in MCWS finals history to post eight or more strikeouts, and North Carolina used him against an Oklahoma lineup that had been productive earlier in the series.
Oklahoma after the first inning
Oklahoma scored in the first inning and then went quiet. North Carolina held the Sooners scoreless after that point, while the North Carolina offense added two insurance runs in the seventh on a Cooper Nicholson home run that also sent Erik Paulsen across the plate.
The contrast with Game 1 was sharp. North Carolina had only three hits over the final eight innings in that opener, but this time it kept pressure on the other side while the Oklahoma bullpen cycled through six arms. Skip Johnson even went to three different relievers for each out of the eighth inning.
Charles Schwab Field on Monday
The series now returns to Charles Schwab Field with the 2026 DI baseball national championship on the line. North Carolina and Oklahoma have one more game to settle it, and the winner takes the title after a Game 2 that shifted the entire weekend.
