No. 2 OU Takes Game One Against UALR

March 6, 2011

Oklahoma 11, UALR 4
Box Score

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
UALR	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	4	5	1
OU	0	0	0	1	2	3	3	2	X	11	16	1

Pitching	IP	H	R	E	BB	SO
W - Rocha (4-0)	7.0	3	3	2	2	5
L - Graziano (2-2)	5.1	8	5	5	5	2

Batting Leaders	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	HR
OU - Seitzer	3	1	2	3	1	1
UALR - Rountree	4	1	2	3	0	0

Game Notes
OU has won five straight games over UALR and leads the all-time series, 20-2 ... Cameron Seitzer extended his season-best hitting streak to nine games with a solo homer in the fourth inning ... It marked Seitzer's first HR of the year ... In his first start of the year since recovering from a torn ACL, Caleb Bushyhead got a base hit in his second at-bat (walked in first) ... Bushyhead has a nine-game hitting streak dating back to last season ... The Sooners recorded their sixth multi-homer game of the year ... OU has 10 games with double-digit hits and eight with double-digit runs ... THe Sooners have won 17 games at home dating back to last season.

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NORMAN, Okla. -- Max White singled in a run and a two-run base hit by Garrett Buechele gave Oklahoma its first lead of the game in the sixth inning en route to an 11-4 victory over Arkansas-Little Rock on Friday. The win improved the No. 2 Sooners' record to 15-0 while the Trojans dropped to 6-7.

The 15-game winning streak by the Sooners is tied for the fifth longest in school history with the 1974 OU squad.

Oklahoma was forced to come from behind for victory for the eighth time this season after UALR's Nick Rountree hit a two-run homer off Michael Rocha in the second inning.

Rountree struck again in the third inning to give the Trojans a 3-0 lead, but Rocha settled down and the OU offense came back to life. While Rocha held UALR scoreless for the fifth, sixth and seventh innings, the Sooner bats went to work with eight runs in that span.

"He didn't have his best stuff," said Golloway on Rocha. "But you know what? He won a ball game and he moves on to, I think, 4-0 and that I think that is also a sign of a warrior and a champion on the mound. That's what you want your Friday night guy to do."

Prior to the outburst, the OU scoring started with Cameron Seitzer extending his hitting streak to nine games with a solo homer in the fourth inning. It was Seitzer's first home run of the season and the Sooners' 18th.

Seitzer came back in the fifth inning to tie the game at three runs apiece on a two-run single to right field. During his nine-game hitting streak, Seitzer is batting 15-for-33 (.455) with 10 RBIs, including six multi-hit performances and four multi-RBI games.

After White and Buechele gave OU the lead in the sixth inning, the Sooners pulled away on Tyler Ogle's third home run of the season, a three-run shot to left field in the seventh inning. It marked the sixth game the Sooners have connected for more than one homer in a game this season.

Rocha battled to improve to 4-0 with five strike outs and three runs (two earned) allowed on three hits. His counterpart, Garret Graziano gave up five runs off eight hits in 5 1/3 innings and fell to 2-2.

Friday's game marked the return of junior Caleb Bushyhead, who has missed the last 14 games and most of the offseason with a torn ACL. Bushyhead reached base in all four at-bats with two base knocks and two walks.

"It's fine," said Bushyhead on his knee which was operated on just over five months ago. "I've been diving and everything in practice for probably three weeks now. I've been ahead of schedule with everything on recovery and all that, it's going great."

The Sooners will be back in action Saturday at 2 p.m. at L. Dale Mitchell Park against Arkansas-Little Rock in the second game of the three-game series. Right-handed pitcher Bobby Shore (2-0) will start for the Sooners, and right-hander Travis Henke (0-0) will get the start for the Trojans.

Games two and three of the series mark the first of 13 set to be televised by the Sooner Sports Network (Cox Ch. 3 in OKC and Tulsa). The contests can also be heard on the Sooner Sports Network, KREF 1400 AM.

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