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WOWT, Omaha, Nebraska – This year at the College World Series finals, history will be made, whether it’s No. 3 Texas A&M or top-ranked Tennessee raising a trophy above their heads this weekend. Although it will be the Aggies’ eighth and the Vols’ seventh trip to Omaha in 2024, neither team has ever won a championship. Over the next three days, both programs want to snap the title drought.
Pitcher Kirby Connell, a graduate of Tennessee, said, “We’ve talked about trying to win a national championship for the past five years.” This weekend, there will be a three-round fight. and aim to win two games faster than any other squad.
”We’ve done a lot of special things for this team and for the University of Tennessee and the state of Tennessee, but job’s not finished in our mind,” said Volunteers outfielder Hunter Ensley. “Just being able to go out there and play in two more games with this group feels pretty good and, you know, I like this group against anybody.”
For Omaha native and Westside High School product Dalton Barg, potentially being a part of Tennessee’s first-ever CWS title would mean even more.
“It really is a blessing and an honor,” Bargo remarked. “I mean, winning a national championship is the exact reason I came to Tennessee—to do it in front of my friends and family in Omaha and my hometown.”
The only other occasion Tennessee has advanced to the CWS Finals was in 1951.
Texas A&M will play in its first-ever CWS Finals on Saturday.
Aggies outfielder Hayden Schott stated, “To do it for this university, with what I’ve been able to experience this year, would be life-changing.” The mere thought of that brings tears to my eyes. It would be incredible. It would undoubtedly mean the world to do it for this bunch of guys and this coaching staff.
“Everyone enrolls in this program with the intention
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