Junior outfielder Dasan Harris, a 2023 graduate of Plano East High School, and the Oklahoma Sooners baseball team will open play in the NCAA Division I World Series at 2p.m. Saturday against No. 7 seeded Alabama from Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Nebraska. The game will be televised on ESPN. Photo courtesy Patrick Dunn / University of Oklahoma athletics communications
By David Wolman
Dasan Harris and the Oklahoma Sooners baseball team have already knocked off No. 2 seeded Georgia Tech and No. 15 Kansas in the NCAA Tournament.
Harris and the unseeded Sooners will look to continue their postseason magic in the NCAA World Series. Oklahoma draws No. 7 Alabama in the opening round at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 13 from Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Nebraska. The game will be televised on ESPN.
The Sooners are making their 12th all-time appearance in the World Series and second appearance in five years.
Oklahoma advanced to the World Series after crushing Kansas 13-2 Monday in Game 2 of the Super Regional in Lawrence, Kansas.
With the score tied 1-1 in the second inning, a six-run bottom half of the second fueled the Sooners’ offense and turned what was a close game into a rout. Harris, a 2023 graduate of Plano East, broke the deadlock with an RBI single through the left side of the field. Harris later punctuated OU’s dominant efforts with a two-run home run in the sixth inning for a commanding 12-1 lead.
Harris delivered in clutch situations at the plate for the 38-22 Sooners throughout the Super Regional.
In OU’s 8-1 Game 1 win on Saturday, June 6, Harris plated the game’s first run with a fielder’s choice in the fourth inning. Harris finished the series with three hits and four RBIs. The Sooners’ next six runs came courtesy of three home runs. Brendan Brock increased OU’s lead to 8-0 with an RBI single in the seventh.
Harris has driven in 10 runs during the NCAA Tournament and has 23 RBIs this season.
Oklahoma rallied from deficits of 8-2 and 7-2 to stun Georgia Tech 15-8 and 8-7 (10 innings) in the final two games of the Atlanta Regional. In the June 1 winner-take-all game, Harris lined an RBI single into center field to give the Sooners a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the first. Tech rallied with seven unanswered runs to take a 7-3 lead in the top of the sixth.
However, OU refused to see its season end. The Sooners rallied with three runs in the seventh before tying the score at 7-7 on Jaxon Willits’ RBI single in the bottom of the ninth. Dayton Tockey capped off the wild comeback with a walk-off solo home run in the bottom of the 10th.
Harris has appeared in 55 games for Oklahoma during his junior year, making 31 starts. The Plano native has an impressive .362 average and .986 OPS with four homers and 23 RBIs. He’s also a weapon on the basepaths for the Soooners, as he is third on the team with 18 stolen bases. At Plano East, Harris was an All-District and All-State talent.
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