KSU Rallies in 8th, Tops Sooners 8-7

March 31, 2012

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Kansas State	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	2	0	8	12	1
Oklahoma	0	0	0	3	4	0	0	0	0	7	11	0

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Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
W- Esquivel (2-1)	4.0	5	2	2	0	2
L- Okert (3-3)	2.1	2	2	2	0	4
S- Williams	0.2	0	0	0	0	1

Leaders	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	HR
OU - Lockwood	4	2	2	4	0	1
KSU- DeBord	3	1	2	3	0	1

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NORMAN- The No. 24 University of Oklahoma baseball team lost 8-7 in game two against Kansas State on Saturday.

OU won game one 5-1 on Friday night and led 7-6 on Saturday until KSU plated two runs in the eighth.

Hunter Lockwood drove in a career-best five RBI for the Sooners, who were outhit 12-11 by the Wildcats.

After falling behind 4-0 after three innings, the OU offense came alive in the fourth, cutting the lead in half off double by Lockwood. Caleb Bushyhead followed with a RBI single to center field.

Unfortunately for the Sooners and their starter Dillon Overton, Kansas State came right back in the fifth with a two-run homer by Blair DeBord.

The Sooners kept fighting in the bottom half of the fifth inning as Lockwood cleared the fence down the right-field line for his Big 12 leading eighth homer of the year. The three-run shot followed a RBI single by Jack Mayfield and gave the Sooners their first lead of the afternoon at 7-6.

Overton recorded a 1-2-3 sixth inning and recorded the first two outs of the seventh before he was relieved by Kindle Ladd.

In the eighth, KSU regained the lead with a pair of runs on OU reliever Steven Okert, including a triple down the right-field line by Jon Davis.

Okert took loss and dropped to 3-2 on the season.

The series finale on Sunday is set for 1 p.m. on the Sooner Sports Network KREF 1400 AM. The game will also be televised on Cox Ch. 3/703 HD.