Oklahoma baseball lands transfer from Tennessee
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Less than 48 hours before the Oklahoma baseball team begun its hopeful College World Series run, the Sooners received another bout of good news.
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Former Tennessee second baseman/outfielder Jay Abernathy committed to Oklahoma out of the transfer portal on Thursday. The rising junior slashed .236/.377/.362 with three home runs and 16 RBIs over 39 starts for the Volunteers. In three games against OU earlier this season, Abernathy scored three runs despite just making one start. He served as a base-running specialist for the Vols toward the end of the season.
While it remains to be seen who Oklahoma might lose to the portal over the summer, Abernathy should slot into the 2027 roster as a utility player capable of spot starts at second or across the outfield.
OU will begin at the CWS on Saturday against Alabama, a team that took two of three from the Sooners during the regular season. The tournament is double-elimination until the championship series which is a best-of-three. Texas and Georgia are on Oklahoma's side of the bracket. If the Sooners beat Alabama, they'll get the winner of the game between Longhorns and Bulldogs and if they lose, they'll get the loser of that game in an elimination game. Either way, the game would be on Monday.
Oklahoma has made the NCAA Tournament each of the last five seasons, including another trip to Omaha for the College World Series in 2022 when OU finished as national runners-up.
This article originally appeared on Sooners Wire: Former Tennessee OF/2B Abernathy commits to Oklahoma