No. 22 Baseball Swept at No. 4 Texas A&M

April 7, 2012

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Oklahoma	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	8	0
Texas A&M	0	1	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	5	8	2

Box Score (PDF)

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
W - Pineda (5-0)	5.1	5	3	2	1	1
L - Gray (2-4)	6.0	8	5	5	3	6
S - Martin (1)	2.0	1	0	0	0	1

Leaders	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	HR
OU - White	3	1	2	0	0	0
TAMU - House	3	2	2	0	1	0

Game Notes

The Sooners open a four-game homestand on Tuesday against No. 9 Arkansas ... OU will also host Missouri next weekend and play seven of the next eight games at home ... OU is 10-8 when scoring first this season ... The Sooners are 1-11 when trailing after eight innings (defeated KSU on April 1) ... OU was 7-for-32 with runners in scoring position over the weekend.

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COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- No. 22 Oklahoma was unable to avoid a three-game sweep at the hands of No. 4 Texas A&M on Saturday, dropping a 5-3 game in the series finale.

Similar to games one and two, OU scored first and held a lead midway through the contest, but Texas A&M rallied in all three contests to record its second sweep of the Sooners in Big 12 play (2008 in College Station).

On Saturday, OU built a 3-1 lead after four innings, but the Aggie offense tagged starter Jonathan Gray (2-4) for three runs in the home half of the fifth frame.

Texas A&M improved to 26-6 overall and 7-2 in Big 12 play behind Rafael Pineda's (5-0) two earned runs allowed off five hits in 5 1/3 innings.

The Sooners dropped to 18-14 and 4-8 after Gray gave up five runs in six innings.

“Texas A&M can flat play, they can pitch,” said OU Head Coach Sunny Golloway. “Honestly, I am going to miss coming down here and, unfortunately, we have to live with our last trip like this. It's not that we didn't play well, we just didn't win and there were three really good ball games.”

The Sooners put two runners into scoring position after the fifth inning but were unable to score off the Aggies' bullpen which was capped off by Kyle Martin's first save of the year.

Erik Ross led the Sooners with two hits for the second straight game while Max White also collected two base hits.

OU scored first for the third straight game on a RBI double by Brian Brightwell.

In the bottom of the second, the Aggies answered with a sacrifice fly to tie the game at one apiece, but the Sooners countered immediately and regained the lead in the third inning with two runs, one coming off a two-out RBI single by Jack Mayfield.

Texas A&M cut the lead down to one run in the bottom of the third inning and made its move in the fifth inning. In that frame, the Aggies plated three runs off Gray which included a two-run double by Matt Juengel.

“Our margin of error is small and it got the best of us in one inning of every game of this series,” added Golloway.

The Sooners play their second top 10 opponent in a row when No. 9 Arkansas travels to Norman for a 6:30 p.m. game on Tuesday, April 10. OU also hosts Missouri next week in a three-game Big 12 series.

“We are looking forward to the challenge,” said Golloway. “Arkansas has become a good midweek rivalry for us. Dave Van Horn does a great job there. We will battle our tale off. It's not a rebuilding year for us, it's just a year where things have not gone our way. We have been very close but we haven't been good enough to win. We have to try to find a way.”

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