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University of Oklahoma Athletics
Friday, March 19
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University of Oklahoma
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Baylor
OU Holds On for 7-6 Win in Big 12 Opener
March 19, 2010 | Baseball
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March 19, 2010
NORMAN, Okla. -- The Oklahoma bullpen pulled out another victory as the No. 13 Sooners claimed a 7-6 win over Baylor in the Big 12 opener on Friday afternoon at L. Dale Mitchell Park.
The Sooners rallied after trailing 3-0 early in the game. The two will play game two of the series tonight at 6:30 p.m.
The win snapped a seven-game losing streak for OU in Big 12 openers and improved its overall mark in 2010 to 18-2. The Sooners have won three straight games and in the process ended Baylor's (11-7) seven-game winning streak.
Despite a combined 13 runs and 18 hits, all of the offense came in the first five innings. The Sooners took a 7-3 lead after three innings that they would not relinquish. Jeremy Erben, who leads the Big 12 with five wins, recorded his first career save after holding Baylor scoreless over the final three frames.
Erben has not allowed a run in eight straight appearances and on Friday he relieved Michael Rocha (3-0), who collected the victory after OU starter Zach Neal lasted just two innings. Erben allowed two hits and struck out three.
After falling behind 3-0 early, OU connected for the first back-to-back homers of the season in the bottom of the second as Chris Ellison drove a two-out homer over the fence in left field with Danny Black on-base and Caleb Bushyhead followed with a solo shot to right. Ironically, the last time OU had consecutive home runs in a game was also against Baylor, also in the second inning, in Waco on April 26, 2009.
The home run was Ellison's third of the year and second in the last four games and extended his hitting streak to seven games. The homer also extended OU's streak of games with at least one roundtripper to 12 games and upped its Big 12 leading total to 27.
Black started the two out rally in the second with a bloop single to right field that brought in two runs. All of the five runs scored in the second off Baylor starter Shawn Tolleson (1-2) were unearned as Casey Johnson reached first earlier in the frame on a throwing error by first baseman Max Muncy.
After the five-run second inning, the Sooners' sixth frame this year of five or more runs, Johnson and Bryan Groth connected for a pair of two-out doubles that padded Oklahoma's cushion to 7-3. The Sooners finished the game with seven two-out RBIs.
Baylor jumped on top early with a pair of runs in the first after Raynor Campbell doubled in the first run and Muncy followed with a single to the gap in left center.
The Bears rallied in the fourth on Rocha and the Sooners with a two-run homer off the bat of Landis Ware's bat. Rocha held the 7-6 lead before exiting after four innings of work.
Ellison wasn't the only Sooner to extend a hitting streak on Friday afternoon. Bushyhead's dinger in the second upped his streak to seven games and Johnson, who led OU with two hits, extended his to eight games.
One of the hottest hitters on the team, Cameron Seitzer, took his streak to a team best nine games this season with a single in the third. Besides Johnson, the other three hitting streaks were career bests.
Game two on Friday, slated for a 6:37 p.m. first pitch, will be simulcast on the Sooner Sports Network with a broadcast on KREF 1400 AM and a telecast on Cox Channel 7 in Oklahoma City and Cox Channel 3 in Tulsa.
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