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University of Oklahoma Athletics
Sunday, March 27
Norman
4:00 PM
University of Oklahoma
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St. Gregory's
Offense Rolls in 21-3 Win Over Cavaliers
March 27, 2011 | Baseball
March 27, 2011
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NORMAN, Okla. -- The No. 7 Oklahoma baseball team got back to its winning ways with 22 base hits en route to a 21-3 over St. Gregory's on Sunday afternoon at L. Dale Mitchell Park.
The win upped OU's overall mark to 19-6 while the Cavaliers fell to 8-25.
Sunday's game was scheduled to make up for the contest cancelled at Missouri on Saturday due to wintry weather conditions in Columbia, Mo. The Sooners split a doubleheader on Friday at Missouri, including a 2-1 loss in 11 innings.
“We played well, it was a hard day to score runs,” said OU Head Coach Sunny Golloway said about Friday's doubleheader at Missouri in 30-degree temperatures. “We had some reasons for wanting to play today. Burch (Smith) needed to pitch ... he needed to get his pitch count up close to 100.
“We needed to work on some things that we need to get better at fundamentally, offensively ... drag, push, sac, and get more guys in scoring position and give ourselves more opportunities to score because we have really struggled lately.”
On Sunday, Chris Ellison and Evan Mistich led the hit parade with three base knocks apiece while Garrett Buechele had a game-high four RBIs and Drew Dahlberg came off the bench to drive in two runs off two hits.
“It felt great,” said Ellison about the offense's performance on Sunday. “We haven't been swinging as well as he hoped, the last couple of weeks. We'll take the hits whoever we get them against. We need to keep getting better.”
The Cavaliers took a 2-0 lead in the second inning, but the Sooner offense countered with four runs in the bottom of the third and three more in the fourth.
That was all OU starter Burch Smith needed as he tossed six innings with nine strikeouts. Smith improved to 3-2 after he allowed two runs off three hits and two walks. His counterpart, Cody Wheeler (3-5), lasted 3 2/3 innings with seven runs (five earned) allowed off seven hits and five walks.
In the fifth, the Sooners hit around the lineup for the first of three times in the game and plated five runs for a 12-2 lead.
In the seventh and eighth innings, Oklahoma sent 20 batters to the plate and scored nine more runs.
The Sooner bullpen featured a scoreless inning by Cayle Shambaugh, one run allowed in the eighth by Ryan Gibson, and a scoreless ninth inning tossed by Tyson Seng.
OU returns to a four-game weekly schedule with a trip to Fayetteville, Ark., to battle the No. 13 Razorbacks (18-6) at Baum Stadium on Tuesday, March 29.
After the midweek game, OU returns to Big 12 play to host Texas Tech (17-8, 4-2) on April 1-3. Friday and Sunday's games will be televised by the Sooner Sports Network (Cox Ch. 3 in OKC and Tulsa), while Saturday's game will be televised live nationally on ESPNU.
BB Highlights: OU 9, Dallas Baptist 3
Monday, April 06
BB Highlights: OU 4, Alabama 2
Friday, April 03
BB Highlights: OU 4, Oral Roberts 0
Tuesday, March 31
BB Highlights: OU 4, LSU 3
Saturday, March 21
