OMAHA, Neb. — Color the college baseball world orange.
The Tennessee Volunteers won their first College World Series national championship Monday night, defeating Texas A&M 6-5 before a crowd of 24,685 inside Charles Schwab Field Omaha. Zander Sechrist concluded his impressive season with another stellar showing on the mound, and Dylan Dreiling’s two-run home run to right field in the seventh inning proved to be the biggest blast, turning a 3-1 lead into a 5-1 advantage.
Dreiling wound up hitting two-run homers in the seventh inning of every game in the best-of-three championship series. Monday’s came at the expense of standout Aggies closer Evan Aschenbeck.
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“I just treated it like it was any other game, even though it was really special,” Dreiling said.