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University of Oklahoma Athletics
Sunday, March 25
Lubbock, Texas
1:00 PM
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OU Cruises in Game 3 to Win Series at Tech
March 25, 2012 | Baseball
March 25, 2012
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LUBBOCK, Texas -- The Oklahoma baseball team turned in an impressive 8-2 win on Sunday at Texas Tech to complete a 2-1 series victory. The Sooners improved to 15-10 overall and 2-4 in Big 12 play while the Red Raiders dropped to 15-10 and 1-5 in conference action.
OU dropped the opener on Friday, 6-1, but came back Saturday to win 5-3 behind Dillon Overton's complete game. On Sunday, the Sooners received a combined outing from Jonathan Gray (4 2/3 innings) and Steven Okert, who tossed four shutout innings to improve to 3-2
Despite dropping its first series opener against Texas Tech since 2002, OU rallied to win its seventh series with the Red Raiders in the last eight years.
"The guys really came together this weekend," said OU Head Coach Sunny Golloway. "This is not an easy place to play at. We are glad to come out of here with a series win and head back to Norman. Our goal was to come in here and win the series and that's exactly what we did."
Offensively, Oklahoma jumped out to a 4-0 lead after four innings thanks to four two-out RBIs. Texas Tech scratched across two runs in the bottom of the fourth inning, but the Sooners put the game away with three runs in the ninth inning. Dylan Neal led all Sooners with two RBI after reaching base in all five plate appearances with a double, single, walk and two hit-by-pitches.
The scoring started for the Sooners in the second inning, taking advantage of the Red Raiders' second error of the game in the second inning as Max White reached on a dropped pop up to first base. White moved to third on a single by Chase Simpson and later scored on Dylan Neal's two-out single. Brian Brightwell followed with a clutch two-out hit of his own to bring home Simpson and give OU a 2-0 lead in teh second.
"They stepped up big this weekend," said Golloway on the play of newcomers Brightwell and Neal. "Their play gives us a spakr and a lot of depth. It also gives all of our guys that you can get in here at any time and get hot."
A 3-0 lead for OU was built off another two-out hit, this time by Hunter Lockwood in the third inning.
Gray and the Sooners quickly extinguished the Red Raiders' first threat in the bottom of the third inning. Gray started out the fram with his third strikeout bu tthe next two batters reached on a hit-by-pitch and a single to right field, but fortunately for the Sooners Jamodrick McGruder grounded into his second double play in as many games to maintain the Sooners' 3-1 lead. 114 plate appearances before last night's double play turned in the fifth.
The Sooners would take a four-run lead in the fourth on the first of two base knocks by Jack Mayfield. The RBI single with two outs marked Mayfield's fifth hit in the last two games.
"Right now, arugeably, Jack is our hottest bat and our biggest thumper," added Golloway.
Gray faced a little more trouble in the fourth, giving up two runs but battling out of a jam with a pickoff and nice catch by Max White in centerfield. Gray ran into more trouble in the fifth inning and exited the game with two runners on and two outs and was replaced by Steven Okert.
In the top of the seventh, Simpson padded the OU lead to three runsat 5-2 with a RBI single to center.
The Sooners return home for a four-game homestand starting with in-state rival Oral Roberts on Tuesday, March 27 at 6:30 p.m. It marks the first regular season meeting between the Sooners and the Golden Eagles since 2004 (met in NCAA tournament in 2010 and 2011). OU then welcomes Kansas State for a Big 12 series starting on Friday at 6:30 p.m. Saturday is set for 2 p.m. and the finale on Sunday is slated for a 1 p.m. first pitch.
BB Highlights: OU 4, Florida 3
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
