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Sooners Edged by Tigers in Big 12 Title Game
May 27, 2012 | Baseball
May 27, 2012
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OKLAHOMA CITY -- The No. 25 Sooners were unable to pull off another ninth-inning rally on Sunday as Missouri won 8-7 to claim the 2012 Big 12 Championship and the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament next weekend.
OU gave up a season-high four runs in the first inning and were limited to one tally in the first three frames. But the Sooner offense rallied with six runs in the next three frames, including Garrett Carey's single in the sixth to tie the game at seven.
The Sooners had runners on first and second with two outs in the bottom of the ninth when pinch hitter Chase Simpson singled through the right side of the infield. However, just when it looked like OU was going to tie the game at eight runs apiece, the runner at first, Caleb Bushyhead (3-for-4, RBI), was called out for interference after the ball deflected off his foot.
In the seventh inning and the game tied at 7-7, Bushyhead was called out trying to score from first on a close play at the plate after a double by Matt Oberste.
The loss dropped OU's overall record to 38-22 while Missouri improved to 32-26 with its first postseason conference title since 1980 (Big Eight).
“I thought it was a terrific game,” said OU Head Coach Sunny Golloway. “A 7-2 deficit and we come back, pretty much exhaust our resources in the bullpen, and try to throw a little bit of everything at them. I thought when it was 7-7, it was going to take a special effort out of their dugout to win it and they did it. I guess the ball hit Caleb Bushyhead"s heel. No fault to him, he's just digging hard trying to get to a bag.”
The Tigers struck first and chased OU starter Damien Magnifico after he recorded just one out before giving up four runs off two hits, a walk and two Sooner errors.
That prompted Dillon Overton to make his second appearance of the tournament, and first out of the pen, to record seven strikeouts over 4 1/3 innings. Overton set a Big 12 record with 15 strikeouts in the tournament, but surrendered three runs off nine hits and a walk in that span before giving the ball up to Steven Okert.
In the second inning, Matt Oberste cracked his fifth home run of the season and third in the last two days. In the fourth, OU cut the lead in half with another two-out hit, this time off a RBI single by Caleb Bushyhead.
The teams exchanged three runs apiece in the fifth as the Tigers chased Overton in the top half. In the home half, a two-run, two-out double by Evan Mistich and a Mizzou wild pitch cuts the lead down to 7-5.
A two-run single by Carey tied the game up at seven runs apiece in the sixth inning but that was the final score for the Sooners.
The Tigers didn't make their move until the eighth inning when Jake Fisher entered the ball game with the bases loaded and zero outs. Fisher induced a double play but Missouri scored the go-ahead run charged to Okert, who dropped to 8-7.
Reliever Dusty Ross earned the win for Missouri with 2 1/3 scoreless innings while Blake Holovach recorded his first save of the year after he recorded the final two outs.
The Sooners await their NCAA postseason fate as the selection show airs on Monday, May 28 at 11 a.m. on ESPNU. OU has made 34 NCAA tournament appearances, including each of the last four years.
The sixteen regional sites were announced by the NCAA earlier today. LSU (43-16), North Carolina (44-14), Virginia (38-17), Texas A&M (42-16), South Carolina (40-17), Miami (FL) (36-20), Oregon (42-16), Florida (42-18), Purdue (44-12), Rice (40-17), UCLA (41-14), Stanford (37-16), North Carolina State (39-17), Florida State (43-15), Arizona (37-17) and Baylor (44-14) will host the NCAA Regionals held June 1-4.
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