Doyle Leads OU Past Texas A&M

May 21, 2008

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
OU	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	4	7	1
TAMU	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	3

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
W - Doyle (8-4)	9.0	5	1	1	2	12
L - Migl (3-3)	6.0	6	4	0	2	4
S - none	-	-	-	-	-	-

Batting Leaders	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	HR
TAMU - Gonzalez	3	1	1	1	0	1
OU - Baker	3	1	2	1	0	0

Game Notes
Andrew Doyle's complete game was the first pitched across nine innings since Stephen Porlier tossed one versus Nebraska on April 13, 2007 (Michael Rocha lasted eight innings for a complete game earlier this season against Tennessee) ... Aljay Davis tied a career high for longest hitting streak (11-games) when he singled in the first inning ... Davis has hit safely in 19 of the last 20 games with 33 hits ... Aaron Baker drove in his team-leading 54th RBI in the sixth inning ... Baker drove in 50 RBIs last season and ranked second behind Joe Dunigan (54) ... The Sooners turned two double plays on Wednesday giving them 12 in the last six games ... The Sooners and Aggies have split the eight meetings in the Big 12 Championship with the last meeting coming in 2003 (Texas A&M won 11-2) ... OU has won the opener of the Big 12 Championship in each of the last two seasons ... OU defeated Missouri in 2007, 7-2, in the first game of the tournament ... OU is 20-19 lifetime in the Big 12 Championship and 59-53 in conference tournament play.

Sooner Baseball Central

2008 OU Baseball Media Guide

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Sophomore Andrew Doyle provided the best outing of the season by an OU pitcher and helped the Sooners, seeded eighth, top the 2008 Big 12 Championship's top seed, Texas A&M, 4-1, on the first day of the tournament at AT&T Bricktown Ballpark.

Doyle (8-4) struck out a career-high 12 batters in his first complete game victory and Aaron Baker, Mike Gosse and Bryant Hernandez each drove in a run to help the Sooners top the No. 10 Aggies.

Baker and Jarod Freeman each connected for two of the Sooners' seven hits on the afternoon. The win was the second in as many games for OU over a top ten team after it defeated No. 9 Oklahoma State on Sunday to end the regular season.

"I think the story of the game was Andrew Doyle, which everybody saw. He is just a sophomore but a leader on this pitching staff," said OU head coach Sunny Golloway.

"It's a big win. It's really big for our players and our confidence. Now having won two games and played two games really well moving into tomorrow. Tomorrow is a new day and we need to go out and play well and play hard."

The Sooners jumped on top early and took a 1-0 lead after the game's first frame. Jamie Johnson began the game by reaching first base on an error by Blake Stouffer and then moved to third on Aljay Davis' single. Johnson later came around to score on Gosse's ground out to short.

In the bottom of the third, the Aggies tied things up on Kevin Gonzalez's solo homer to left field.

After Doyle and his counterpart, Scott Migl (3-3), cruised through the fourth and fifth innings, the Sooners regained the lead in the top of the sixth inning.

In the Sooners' sixth, OU tallied three runs and built a 4-1 advantage behind three hits and another error on Stouffer.

Casey Johnson started the one-out rally in the sixth and reached on the second Texas A&M error of the game. Johnson eventually scored the first of three runs in the frame on Aaron Baker's double, which also moved Jarod Freeman (single) to third base. Bryant Hernandez provided OU with some more cushion on a sacrifice fly that not only scored Freeman from third, but also plated Aaron Baker after Kyle Colligan's throw from center was off line.

That was all the extra insurance Doyle would need. After giving up the home run in the third, the hurler retired 18 of the final 24 batters he faced and 10 came via a strikeout. The Sooner defense was also solid behind Doyle, turning two double plays and holding the Aggies to just two runners in scoring position in the game.

Doyle finished the complete game with one run allowed on five hits and two walks. His 12 strikeouts were the most by an OU pitcher since Stephen Porlier struck out 12 Texas A&M batters on March 23, 2007.

The Sooners continue pool play on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. against the tournament's No. 4 seed, Missouri. The Tigers topped Texas earlier today, 3-2, in 11 innings.

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