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University of Oklahoma Athletics
Oklahoma Welcomes Purdue This Weekend
March 05, 2015 | Baseball
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Twitter| Pitching Match-Ups | |||
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| Oklahoma | Purdue | ||
| RHP-Jake Elliott 2-0, 1.45, 17 Ks |
RHP-Mike Kornacker 0-1, 3.38, 1 K |
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| RHP-Alec Hansen 1-1, 5.40, 24 |
RHP-Brett Haan 0-2, 12.00, 10 |
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| LHP-Jeffrey Curran 0-0, 1.88, 10 |
RHP-Matt Frawley 0-1, 1.93, 13 |
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| Radio | 1400 AM | 1560 AM SoonerSports.tv Toby Rowland | Chris Plank |
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| TV/Video | FSSW+/FCSP (Friday) SoonerSports.tv (Saturday) FSSW/FCSC (Sunday) Chad McKee | George Frazier |
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| Player to Watch |
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 Craig Aikin // Jr. // CFAikin set an OU record with six hits last game to extend his hit streak to nine games. He has hit in 26 of the last 27 games dating back to 2014. |
NORMAN, Okla. – A brief, five-game homestand continues for Oklahoma baseball as it hosts Purdue for a three-game set this weekend. The series opens Friday night at 6:00 pm and continues Saturday at 5:00 pm and Sunday at 12:00 pm.
Overall, Oklahoma is 10-5 on the season and winners of seven out of its last eight. Junior center fielder Craig Aikin is coming off a record-setting day and leads the Sooners with a .387 batting average and 18 runs scored. Four players are hitting .300-or-better, including junior Kolbey Carpenter (.333), redshirt-senior right fielder Taylor Alspaugh (.316) and junior Anthony Hermelyn (.304). Sophomore shortstop Sheldon Neuse has lifted his average to .278, while leading the team with 17 RBI to go with three home runs. Carpenter is the team-leader in long balls at four. On the mound, sophomore right-hander Jake Elliott (2-0) gets the start on Friday night. He owns a 1.45 earned run average, best among OU starters, and has struck out 17 across a team-high 18.2 innings of work.
Promotions
Friday night is “Student Appreciation Night”. The first 250 students in attendance will receive a free Oklahoma baseball “Boomerball” tank top. On Saturday, tickets to the OU vs. Kansas men's basketball game will get fans into L. Dale Mitchell Park for free. Also, OU baseball thermal coffee mugs will be given away to the first 500 fans through the gates. In the Sunday finale, kids can run the bases at the conclusion of the game. The Saturday and Sunday games will also be the first two “Cane's Challenge” games of the season. If the Sooners score five runs or more, each ticket is good for buy-one-get-one combos at Raising Cane's the next day.
Scouting the Boilermakers
Coming off a three-game skid in Arizona, the Boilermakers are 4-7 going into the three-game series against Oklahoma. Purdue is led by Michael Vilardo with a .348 average and Brandon Krieg who leads the team with nine runs scored. On the mound, Matt Frawley has a 1.93 ERA through 14 innings pitched and is slated to start on Sunday. Purdue, which hosted a regional in 2012, finished just 13-37 in the Big Ten last season.
For the Record
Single to center, single down the left field line, F7, single up the middle, three-run home run to right, double to right-center, infield-single to second. That was Aikin's record-setting day with a school-record six hits as he went 6-for-7 with four runs and six RBI in a 22-0 win over Arkansas-Little Rock (3/3). Aikin's home run was the first of his career as he set career marks in both runs scored and driven in.
Slugging It Out
The Sooners are the only team in the Big 12 to hit four home runs in a game and the only team to hit four triples in a game. Oklahoma slugged four homers against BYU (2/28) in Las Vegas and tripled four times against Oregon State (2/22) in Surprise, Ariz.
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