Series Even After Sooners Fall in Extras

Sam Houston State

No. 23 Oklahoma

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Line Score
Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	R	H	E
SHSU	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	4	7	2
OU	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	4	1

Pitching
	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
W - Bisacca (5-1)	4.2	0	0	0	2	0
L - Garza (2-2)	1.0	0	1	0	0	2
S - N/A	-	-	-	-	-	-

Individual Leaders
	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	HR
SHSU - Atwood	5	1	2	0	0	0
OU - Shaw	3	1	1	2	0	1
SHSU- MacWilliam	4	0	2	1	0	0

Series Finale
Oklahoma vs. Sam Houston State L. Dale Mitchell Park Tickets: April 26 Robert Tasin gets the call in the rubber-match as the Sooners look to improve on their 10-1 record in Sunday games.

NORMAN, Okla. – The No. 23 University of Oklahoma baseball team fell to Sam Houston State, 4-3, in 11 innings in front of 1,385 at L. Dale Mitchell Park on Saturday afternoon. The Bearkats forced extras with a run in the seventh and won on a fly ball lost in the sun to right field with a runner at second and two away in the top of the 11^th.

The Sooners dropped to 29-17 on the season, while SHSU improved to 23-21.

The two teams traded runs in the first inning as the Bearkats got on the board in the first inning with a pair of one-out singles and a RBI-groundout by left fielder Bryce Johnson. Oklahoma answered in the bottom half by scoring a run without the benefit of a hit. Redshirt-senior right fielder Taylor Alspaugh (Broken Arrow, Okla.) walked with one down, advanced on a groundball and scored on a dropped pop-up lost in the sun at short.

Sam Houston went back in front in the fourth as a lead-off walk came around to burn OU. Johnson drew the free base, stole second and went to third on a groundout. Second baseman Jake MacWilliam brought him home with a sharp grounder past the diving second baseman and made it a 2-1 game in favor of SHSU.

The Sooners put together a two-out rally in the bottom of the fourth as junior left fielder Hunter Haley (Nacogdoches, Texas) doubled into the right field corner. Junior catcher Chris Shaw (Winnipeg, Man.) followed and crushed a go-ahead, two-run home run to left to make in a 3-2 OU lead.

That would be the last hit of the day for Oklahoma. Left-handed starter Logan Boyd and right-handed reliever Alex Bisacca combined for seven-hitless innings to finish the game for Sam Houston. Boyd lasted 6.1 innings and allowed three runs, two earned, on four hits and a walk to go with four strikeouts. Bisacca (5-1) stayed on the rest of the game and fired 4.2 innings of no-hit work with a pair of walks.

The Bearkats forced extra innings in the seventh when third baseman Zach Smith drew a lead-off walk, advanced on a wild pitch and stole third before scoring on a base hit up the middle by shortstop Miles Manning.

Sophomore right-hander Alec Hansen (Loveland, Colo.) was chased from the game after 6.2 innings pitched. He surrendered three runs on five hits and four walks, while striking out eight. Junior RHP Ralph Garza Jr. (New Braunfels, Texas) was the third Sooner reliever of the day and took the loss without giving up a hit in his one inning of work.

Garza (2-2) took the hill for the start of the 11^th and hit the lead-off batter, first baseman Spencer Rahm. Ryan Farney pinch-ran and was sacrificed to second and scored on the fly ball to right lifted by Manning.

The rubber-match of the series will be played Sunday afternoon at 1:00 pm. Redshirt-senior right-hander Robert Tasin (Klein, Texas) goes to the mound for Oklahoma.