{"id":732253,"date":"2026-06-22T02:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T02:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/732253\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T02:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T02:21:14","slug":"north-carolina-defeats-oklahoma-in-game-2-of-the-mcws-finals-forces-game-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/732253\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina defeats Oklahoma in Game 2 of the MCWS finals, forces Game 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/USATSI_29218582_168381516_lowres-ezgif.com-crop.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Owen Hull\"\/><\/p>\n<p>North Carolina center fielder Owen Hull has gone into detail about being in the \u2018O-Zone\u2019 a few times this season, most recently after hitting four doubles, one being a walk-off winner, to eliminate Southern California in the super regionals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But after his solo homer in the fifth, it\u2019s pretty clear that the George Mason transfer has been on a roll all season, especially in the NCAA tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The Tar Heels\u2019 two-hitter, Hull entered today\u2019s game as the team\u2019s leader in batting average in the tournament (.500) and Men\u2019s College World Series (.444). He also holds the top spot for UNC at the MCWS in runs (6), hits (8), doubles (3), extra-base hits (5) and total bases.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of his performance against USC, he went 4-for-5 with two RBIs, two doubles and a triple against West Virginia in the MCWS semifinals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Talk about rising to the occasion.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Carolina center fielder Owen Hull has gone into detail about being in the \u2018O-Zone\u2019 a few times&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,2328,2304,4,2305,2303,2358,5245],"class_list":["post-732253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-north-carolina","tag-oklahoma"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116791377057949872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}