Win or Go Home Territory

Kansas State

Oklahoma

Highlights

Box Score

Notes

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

Pitching
	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
W - Kalmus (1-4)	5.1	6	2	2	0	6
L - Elliott (4-6)	2.0	5	3	2	1	0
S - Floyd (1)	3.2	4	1	1	2	0

Individual Leaders
	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	HR
KS - Brown	4	1	4	2	0	0
OU - Hermelyn	4	1	2	1	0	1
OU - Alspaugh	5	1	3	2	0	1

TULSA, Okla. – The University of Oklahoma baseball team has entered a win-or-go-home scenario after a 7-3 loss to Kansas State in its Big 12 Championship opener at ONEOK Field, Wednesday evening. The three-seed Sooners, who dropped to 32-26 on the year, will play tomorrow at 12:30 pm against the loser of Oklahoma State and West Virginia.

The Wildcats (27-28) grabbed the lead early with runs in each of the first three innings. Back-to-back singles started the game for K-State and OU sophomore right-hander Jake Elliott (Coppell, Texas) traded a run for two outs with a double play. In the second, center fielder Max Brown led off with a double, advanced on a wild pitch and scored on a single by right fielder Clayton Dalrymple, who later scored on a throwing error from short.

Trailing 5-0, redshirt-senior right fielder Taylor Alspaugh (Broken Arrow, Okla.) got the Sooners on the board with a lead-off home run to right on the first pitch of the bottom of the fifth. Junior catcher Anthony Hermelyn (McKinney, Texas) made is a two-home run inning for Oklahoma two batters later with a solo shot to left.

Kansas State responded with a pair of unearned runs off of redshirt-junior lefty Adam Choplick (Denton, Texas) in the top of the seventh. Brown delivered both to the plate with a two-out single popped into shallow center off of junior right-hander Ralph Garza Jr. (New Braunfels, Texas).

After the stretch, the Sooners fought back for a run. Sophomore Austin O'Brien (Owasso, Okla.) started the inning with a pinch-hit single to left and a single up the middle by junior center fielder Craig Aikin (Coppell, Texas) put two men aboard. Alspaugh followed with a bounding ball through the right-side to bring home O'Brien with his second RBI of the game.

Elliott (4-6) took the loss in just two innings of work. He gave up three runs, two earned, on five hits and a walk. Choplick allowed one earned and one unearned run in his first inning of relief and after three-scoreless frames allowed two unearned runs. He totaled 4.1 innings of work, three hits, two walks and three strikeouts.

In the win, right-hander Colton Kalmus (2-4) struck out six and surrendered the two home runs amongst six total hits, while striking out six and walking none. Left-hander Jordan Floyd picked up his first save of the season in 3.2 innings of one-run relief with four hits and two walks allowed.

Brown finished the game a perfect 4-for-4 for the Wildcats with two RBI and a double. The Sooners out-hit K-State, 10-9, for the game. Alspaugh went 3-for-5, while Aikin, Hermelyn and junior left fielder Hunter Haley (Nacogdoches, Texas) all added two hits.

Oklahoma will turn to redshirt-senior right-hander Robert Tasin (Klein, Texas) in Thursday's elimination game.

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Players Mentioned

Craig Aikin

Taylor Alspaugh

Adam Choplick

Jake Elliott

Ralph Garza Jr.

Hunter Haley

Anthony Hermelyn

Austin O'Brien

Robert Tasin

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