The last time South Carolina lost a postseason baseball game?

Go back to the opener of the 2010 College World Series, when Oklahoma prevailed over South Carolina 4-3. The Gamecocks bounced back to eliminate OU in extra innings, and haven’t looked back. South Carolina went on to win back-to-back national championships, and last weekend ran its unprecedented NCAA tournament-winning streak to 19 games by sweeping the Columbia Regional.

At 7 p.m. Saturday, OU will get another crack at the Gamecocks in Game 1 of the Super Regional, which will be televised on ESPNU. Game 2 is set for 7 p.m. on Sunday on ESPNU, and the if-necessary game is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Monday and would be televised by ESPN2.

“I think that streak is outstanding,” said OU coach Sunny Golloway. “It’s long and I think that we need to have something to say about it.”

The winner of the USC-Oklahoma super regional will earn a trip to Omaha for the College World Series, which get started June 15, and will face the winner of the Florida-N.C. State super regional.

First, OU will have to get past arguably the most dominant program of the last decade. The good news, however, is that the Sooners are red-hot after going through the loser’s bracket to capture the Charlottesville Regional. After dropping the opener to Appalachian State after a rain delay, OU came back to beat Army, host Virginia and Appalachian State twice.

To end the conference season, the Sooners also swept national seed Baylor and advanced to the Big 12 tournament championship game before losing by a run to Missouri.

“Oklahoma has been hot down the stretch,” South Carolina associate head coach Chad Holbrook told a local radio station this week. “They’ve always pitched extremely well. I don’t think they swing the ball from an offensive-numbers standpoint like Appalachian State, but that doesn’t mean they can’t hit. They have some guys that we played against in Omaha a couple of years ago still on the team. They’re going to have some experience.”

One of those guys is outfielder Cody Reine, who propelled the Sooners to Omaha in 2010 with four home runs in the super regional series victory at Virginia. He had six RBIs last weekend in the first win over Appalachian State. Reine, Max White and the still-surging Matt Oberste give OU some pop in the middle of the lineup. But if the Sooners are going to be the ones that finally take down South Carolina, it will be because of what they are capable of on the mound. Starters Jordan John (8-7, 2.29 ERA), Dillon Overton (6-3, 3.16 ERA) and Jonathan Gray (8-4, 3.32 ERA) were all stellar in Charlottesville, and left-handed closer Steven Okert (drafted in the fourth round by the Giants last week) has been virtually unhittable the last month of the season.

“Like coach says, somebody has to beat us twice in a weekend,” John said before the postseason. “With our pitching staff and how we’re going, I feel like that gives us a great chance.”