Cancelled Event: Baseball versus Texas Tech
Cancelled
Baseball
vs Texas Tech
University of Oklahoma Athletics
Sunday, March 18
Norman, Okla.
1:00 PM
University of Oklahoma
4
vs
9
Texas
No. 17 Sooners Swept by Visiting Texas
March 18, 2012 | Baseball
March 18, 2012
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NORMAN, Okla. -- No. 17 Oklahoma was unable to avoid a three-game sweep at home against Texas on Sunday, dropping the finale 9-4. The Sooners lost the opener in heartbreaking fashion on Friday, 7-6 in 12 innings, and fell 9-5 on Saturday.
OU lost its fifth straight game to fall to 11-9 on the season and 0-3 in Big 12 play. The last time OU started the opening weekend of conference play without a win was in 2008 at Nebraska (0-2-1).
On Sunday, the Longhorns (10-8 overall, 3-0 Big 12) made short work of Sooner starter Steven Okert (2-2) who was chased for three runs (one unearned) in 1 2/3 innings. Texas took a 4-0 lead with a solo homer by Mark Payton off Kindle Ladd pitching for OU in the fourth inning and never looked back.
The Longhorns had 13 hits on Sunday to the Sooners' six and Oklahoma committed three errors that produced two unearned runs.
“We are not making breaks for ourselves,” said OU Head Coach Sunny Golloway. “We hit some balls hard right at them. It seems like there were some balls that they hit are definitely finding the hole. I still think it goes back to making pitches and making plays. They have some good athletes and made some good plays in the field.
“I didn't see the fight that I would have liked to have had in the series, or here lately in the last five games. I think we take a lot (away from the weekend), as far as evaluating the players because what we have to do, as a staff, is learn who is going to fight for us and who is going to get after it.”
After the Longhorns tacked on another run in the top of the sixth for a 5-0 lead, OU broke up the no-hitter by Parker French (3-0) and avoided the shutout after Max White singled in Caleb Bushyhead (single) and Chase SImpson (fielder's choice) with two outs.
However, the three-run lead was quickly pushed back to a five-run advantage as Texas tagged Ladd for two runs in the seventh.
Freshman catcher Hunter Lockwood kept OU within striking distance in the bottom of the seventh with his sixth home run of the year, a two-run shot deposited over the fence in left-center field. But again, Texas countered with two more runs in the ninth to record the five-run win.
After the two-game set with Air Force, OU returns to Big 12 play and hits the road for the first time in conference action at Texas Tech over the weekend (March 23-25).
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Friday, May 01
BB Highlights: OU 2, Auburn 1
Saturday, April 25
BB Highlights: OU 7, Oral Roberts 6
Tuesday, April 21
BB Highlights: OU 8, Missouri 4
Sunday, April 19
