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No. 17 Sooners Fall To Tigers, 9-5, In Big 12 Tournament Opener
May 26, 2004 | Baseball
ARLINGTON, Texas - Seventeenth-ranked and second seeded Oklahoma suffered the second upset of the day on the opening day of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Conference Tournament by falling 9-5 to No. 7 seed Missouri Wednesday afternoon at Ameriquest Field.
OU scored all of its runs in the five run fifth inning rally which pulled them to within a run of Missouri before the Tigers broke out the bats again for three late scores.
The loss drops the Sooners (36-21) into the elimination game bracket where they will face the third seeded Texas Tech Red Raiders (38-18), who lost to sixth seeded Baylor 8-3 earlier in the day, at 10 a.m. on Thursday morning.
With Missouri shutting out Oklahoma 6-0 on four hits through the first five frames, Oklahoma plated five runs on three hits in the sixth inning to climb back into the game. The Tigers then plated three runs off Sooner junior reliever Daniel McCutchen in the top of the ninth inning to clinch the victory.
Senior reliever Casey Brown provided the lone bright spot for Oklahoma's pitching corps in the contest. Brown entered the game with the bases loaded and one out in the fifth inning and allowed only one run to come home on a sacrifice fly. He finished the next three innings and allowed only one more baserunner on a walk over that span to stabilize the game.
OU starting pitcher David Purcey (8-5) was pulled after only 4.1 innings. He was responsible for the first six runs and was hindered by five walk, three of which scored.
After retiring the side in the first inning, Purcey ran into trouble in the second inning. He got out of a bases loaded, no outs jam in the second by only giving up a pair of runs. The Tigers loaded the bases on two hits and a walk before first baseman Brad Flanders lifted a sacrifice fly to center field to plate the first run. The next run scored on a failed pick off attempt as the throw glanced off junior shortstop Ryan Rohlinger's glove into center field allowing the runner at third base to advance home.
The Tigers once again took advantage of a bases loaded situation in the fourth frame to add two more runs to their total. Purcey walked the bases loaded and gave up a two-RBI single to leftfielder Ryan Rallo to extend the lead to 4-0.
In the fifth inning, Flanders recorded his second RBI of the contest with a double. A second run scored on a sacrifice fly by shortstop Gary Arndt for a 6-0 lead.
The Sooners finally got on the scoreboard in the seventh inning as freshman catcher Josh Stinson (0-for-4) reached base on an error by the Tiger first baseman. Following a strikeout by Rohlinger, OU recorded consecutive doubles by sophomore leftfielder Scott Rooker (2-for-4) and junior centerfielder Jeff Scuderi (1-for-3) with both Stinson and Rooker scoring on Scuderi's two-bagger.
Two more runs scored on a single to center field by junior first baseman Ole Sheldon (3-for-5). New Missouri hurler Mark Alexander, who gave up the two-RBI hit to Sheldon, walked two straight batters to load the bases and force home a run.
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