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University of Oklahoma Athletics
Friday, May 21
Lawrence, Kan.
7:00 PM
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Kansas
OU Cruises to Series-Opening Win at Kansas
May 21, 2010 | Baseball
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LAWRENCE, Kan. -- Danny Black's two-run double in the sixth inning gave No. 15 Oklahoma its first lead of the game as it posted a 14-4 victory over Kansas at Hoglund Park on Friday.
The win snapped a four-game losing streak in Lawrence for Oklahoma (40-14, 13-10) and dropped Kansas to 31-22-1 and 11-13-1. OU extended its winning streak to five games in addition to posting victories in 13 of the last 16 contests.
"The score clearly isn't indicative of the ball game that was played here, because for seven innings it was anybody's game," said OU Head Coach Sunny Golloway. "Our bats took care of it with a couple big innings (late)."
The series-opening victory also gave the Sooners 40 wins on the year for the second straight season, marking the first time since the 1994 (50) and 1995 (42) College World Series teams accomplished the same feat.
The decisive frame for the Sooners came in the sixth as they trailed 3-1 before plating four runs on Cameron Seitzer's sacrifice fly, Cody Reine's RBI double and Black's game-winner.
Just as the Jayhawks were inching closer with a run in the seventh, the Sooners received a sacrifice squeeze from Chris Ellison and a two-run homer from Max White in the eighth, his team-leading 14th, to put the game away. OU finished things off with a sixth-run ninth inning.
Zach Neal (8-2) struck out six batters across 6 1/3 innings and gave up four runs off eight hits and three walks for the win. Neal battled out of a big jam in the third as KU had nobody out and runners on first and third. Tony Thompson recorded the first out on an infield pop up and then Jimmy Waters lined into an inning-ending double play.
T.J. Walz (8-5) lasted 5 2/3 innings and surrendered five runs of 10 hits. Walz struck out nine, with seven of those strikeouts coming in first three frames, but suffered just his second career loss at home.
The Jayhawks struck first on Waters' RBI single in the first inning but OU rallied for another comeback victory, its 20th of the year.
Garrett Buechele helped jump start the rally and produced his 26th multiple hit game of the season with a one-out double down the left-field line in the fourth. He later scored on Cameron Seitzer's 47th RBI of the season on a base hit up the middle.
Tied at one apiece, Kansas regained the lead in the bottom half of the frame after Chris Manship plated the go-ahead run on a single to right. Waters struck again in the bottom of the fifth and gave the Jayhawks a 3-1 lead on his team-leading ninth homer of the year.
Black, Buechele and White all had three hits apiece as Oklahoma posted its second-highest hit (17) and run total during the Big 12 slate. Black, White and Ellison finished with a game-high three RBIs.
Game two on Saturday is slated for a 6 p.m. first pitch and can be heard on the Sooner Sports Network, KREF 1400 AM.
"Kansas is a good ball club and we know that better than anybody right now," said Golloway. "We have to be ready to go tomorrow. The bottom line is we have to stay hungry and go after win No. 41 tomorrow and try to win this series."
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