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University of Oklahoma Athletics
One Way or Another
May 17, 2013 | Baseball
May 17, 2013
| No. 19 Oklahoma (35-17, 12-9 Big 12) vs. No. 18 Kansas State (37-15, 14-7 Big 12) | |
| Game 1 | Friday, May 17, 6:30 p.m. CT |
| Game 2 | Saturday, May 18, 6:30 p.m. CT |
| Game 3 | Sunday, May 19, 1 p.m. CT |
| Location | Manhattan, Kan. | Tointon Family Stadium |
| Radio | Sooner Sports Network |
| Live Stats | SoonerSports.com |
| Additional Info | Twitter | Instagram | Media Guide | Game Notes |
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MANHATTAN, Kan. -- All or nothing -- that may be what's on the line for the Sooners this weekend.
No. 19 Oklahoma travels for a three-game series against No. 18 Kansas State to end the regular season. The best possible result is a conference title. The worst is the possibility of being left out of the NCAA Tournament.
"You've got the complete opposite spectrums based on what happens this week," OU head coach Sunny Golloway said. "They couldn't be more different. And who would have thought one weekend we mean so much?"
The Sooners sit in second place in the Big 12 standings, two victories behind the first-place Wildcats, but have tumbled down the RPI ladder in recent weeks after losing six of their last eight games.
Still, the Sooners remain confident.
"I feel like our team has a great mindset right now," senior pitcher Jake Fisher said. "I feel like it's going to be the same mindset this weekend that it would be in the Big 12 Tournament or anywhere else (in the postseason).
"I know we've had a rough patch here recently, but I feel like we're going to come out of it in a big way. Basically, you get beat down and have to bounce back hard. I feel like there's nowhere to go but up. You've just got to go out there and let it fly."
Traditionally, Oklahoma has played its best baseball at the end of May.
Last year, Oklahoma came within one run of winning the Big 12 Tournament. It also ripped followed an NCAA Regional loss with four straight wins for the program's second Super Regional appearance. In 2010, the Sooners finished the regular season with seven straight wins, and then posted another seven wins en route to a College World Series appearance.
"We control our destiny. We can go up there and win three games and be Big 12 champs, be having a big party in Manhattan. On the other side, if we go up there and don't play well and get swept, we'd better come back and win the Big 12 (tournament) title."
While a series sweep of a ranked team may seem unlikely, the Sooners have done it a recently as 2012 when Oklahoma sent then-No. 2 ranked Baylor home with three straight losses. And while Kansas State hasn't been swept all season, the Wildcats have not won a weekend series versus a ranked team.
The Sooners get to begin the weekend relying on the arm of one of the nation's top pitchers. Jonathan Gray (8-2, 1.43 ERA) is scheduled to take the mound opposite K-State's Levi MaVorhis (5-0, 2.91 ERA). Gray ranks third in Division I with 112 strikeouts and fifth nationally allowing just 5.42 hits per nine innings.
"My strategy is going to stay the same," Gray said. "We're going to try to shut them down in the first game and, hopefully, they will lose confidence the second and third game. If we take away their bats on Friday, it's going to discourage them a little bit."
First pitch at Tointon Family Stadium is 6:30 p.m. Listen to Toby Rowland's and Caleb Bushyhead's call on the Sooner Sports Network, locally on Sportstalk 1400 AM.
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