Tennessee earns first national title in baseball with 6-5 win over Texas A&M

— Tony Vitello jumped into the stands to share a group hug with the legion of Tennessee fans who invaded Omaha. Christian Moore hit a leadoff homer, Dylan Dreiling went deep for the third time in three games and Tennessee survived anxious moments late to take the title with a 6-5 victory over Texas A&M on Monday night in Game 3 of the College World Series finals. If you’re in the SEC, you’re going to be a superstar player, but you need to be a good teammate, and that’s what these guys were.” Tennessee held an Aggies team averaging 8.5 runs per game for the season to six runs over the last 20 innings of the finals, with Zander Sechrist and Nate Snead doing the heavy lifting on Monday before Texas A&M came back to score four runs and get the tying run at the plate in the ninth. I tried to stay back and put a good swing on it.” The Vols’ two homers Monday moved them into a tie with the 1998 LSU team for most in an NCAA Tournament and gave them 184 for the season, four behind the 1997 LSU team’s NCAA record of 188. “You make it this far, you want to win your last game.” Among the fans on hand in Tennessee orange were football great Peyton Manning, football coach Josh Heupel, men’s basketball coach Rick Barnes and country music artist Morgan Wallen.