Baseball Claims Road Series at Texas

Oklahoma

No. 25 Texas

Line Score
Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
OU	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	3	12	0
UT	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	11	0

Pitching
	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
W - Tasin (6-1)	6.0	9	1	1	2	4
L - Hollingsworth (3-4)	2.0	3	1	1	2	0
S - Evans (4)	3.0	2	1	1	0	3

Individual Leaders
	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	HR
OU - Carpenter	4	0	2	2	1	0
OU - Neuse	3	1	2	0	2	0
UT - Cantu	3	1	2	0	1	0

Player of the Game
Kolbey Carpenter // Jr. // IF Carpenter drove in the first two Sooners runs of the game with a bases-loaded walk and a single up the middle.

Next Home Game
Oklahoma vs. Dallas Baptist L. Dale Mitchell Park Tuesday \| 7:00 pm \| Tickets The Sooners welcome Dallas Baptist, the number-one team in the RPI across the nation, for a non-conference tilt in Norman on Tuesday night.

AUSTIN, Texas – The University of Oklahoma baseball team pulled out a series win at No. 25 Texas with a 3-2 victory in front of 5,506 at Disch-Falk Field, Sunday afternoon. The Sooners, who claimed their second straight road series over the Longhorns after not taking one since 1997, improved to 24-14 overall and 8-4 in the Big 12.

“It was an important weekend for us to build toughness in our program and what better way to do it than on the road in an environment like this,” starter head coach Pete Hughes. “I'm proud of our guys and the character and resiliency they built this week. Today was an important road-win as far as character-building for our program. Our pitching staff did a great job, our bullpen was great and we got some key hits in pressure situations, which is always the sign of a tough team.”

Oklahoma pieced together a quality win with a run in the second, fourth and sixth. Redshirt-senior right-hander Robert Tasin (Klein, Texas) improved to 6-1 on the season with six-strong innings of work. He scattered nine hits and two walks, while striking out four and allowing only one run. Junior left-hander Jacob Evans (Broken Arrow, Okla.) pitched all three innings of relief to lock down his fourth save of the season and second of the weekend, including a 1-2-3 ninth; highlighted by a looking strikeout to end the game.

“Tasin always gives you a chance to win because he's a strike-thrower and he's a fifth-year senior, who trusts his stuff,” Hughes said of OU's starting pitcher. “He's not afraid of contact and those are the kinds of guys who pitch out of jams.”

For the game, Tasin stranded nine runners on base, leaving two or more on in four separate innings.

Sophomore shortstop Sheldon Neuse (Fort Worth, Texas) and Tasin lined back-to-back singles to start the second and were sacrificed into scoring position by sophomore first baseman Austin O'Brien (Owasso, Okla.). A walk to junior left fielder Hunter Haley (Nacogdoches, Texas) loaded the bases and a walk to junior Kolbey Carpenter (Waco, Texas) brought in the first run of the day.

Texas (19-17, 6-6) tied the game in the bottom half of the second. Catcher Michael Cantu started the inning off with a single to right and was followed by base knocks from third baseman Bret Boswell and first baseman Tres Barrera to load the bases with nobody out. Designated hitter C.J. Hinojosa drove in Cantu with a high sacrifice-fly to left and Tasin got out of the inning without further damage by striking out one and inducing a pop fly in foul territory.

Haley drew a lead-off walk to open the fourth and moved into scoring position on a sacrifice-bunt by senior third baseman Joshua Ake (Readington, N.J.). Haley came around to score on a base hit up the middle off the bat of Carpenter. The Sooners added a much-needed, insurance run in the sixth with a two-out rally. Ake singled to right and after Carpenter's second hit of the day scored from second on a base hit up the middle by redshirt-senior right fielder Taylor Alspaugh (Broken Arrow, Okla.).

Evans took the hill for Oklahoma to start the seventh with a two-run lead. He put Texas down in order with a pair of strikeouts and a groundball to short. The Longhorns cut the lead to one and got the potential tying run to second after an RBI-double by right fielder Colin Shaw. Back out for the ninth, Evans sat down the top of the UT order on 10 pitches and ended the game with a called strike three to Ben Johnson.

Carpenter, Neuse and Tasin all finished the game with two hits for the Sooners. Neuse was 2-for-3 with a run scored and two walks, including his third intentional-walk of the weekend.

Right-hander Kyle Johnston lasted just 2.1 innings in the start for Texas. He allowed one run on two hits and four walks to go with two strikeouts. The loss went to right-hander Chad Hollingsworth (3-4), the first of seven Longhorn relievers used in the game. He gave up one run on three hits and two walks.

Four Texas players recorded two hits in the game. Cantu went 2-for-3 with a run scored and a walk.

Each team had just one extra-base hit as Shaw doubled for the Longhorns and junior center fielder Craig Aikin (Coppell, Texas) lined a double to left-center in the ninth.

Oklahoma is back at home Tuesday night for a 6:00 pm non-conference game against Dallas Baptist at L. Dale Mitchell Park.

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Players Mentioned

Craig Aikin

Joshua Ake

Taylor Alspaugh

Kolbey Carpenter

Kolbey Carpenter

Jacob Evans

Hunter Haley

Mac James

Sheldon Neuse

Austin O'Brien

Robert Tasin

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