Sooners Stay Alive in Tulsa

Oklahoma

Kansas State

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

Pitching
	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
W - Evans (6-1)	1.2	0	0	0	0	1
L - Fischer (4-6)	8.0	7	2	2	0	3
S - N/A	-	-	-	-	-	-

Individual Leaders
	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	HR
OU - Carpenter	4	2	3	0	0	0
OU - Tasin	4	1	2	2	0	0
KS - Wodtke	3	0	3	0	0	0

Player of the Game
Robert Tasin // RSr. // DH The winning pitcher on Thursday delivered the winning RBI on Friday. Tasin went 2-for-4 with two two-out RBI-singles.

TULSA, Okla. – After pitching the University of Oklahoma baseball team to a win on Thursday, redshirt-senior Robert Tasin (Klein, Texas) delivered the game-winning RBI in the top of the ninth to beat Kansas State, 3-1 in a Big 12 Championship elimination game in front of 3,645 at ONEOK Field on Friday night. The Sooners improved to 34-26 and move on to face Oklahoma State Saturday at 12:30 pm.

“Awesome team win,” stated head coach Pete Hughes. “When you get in the losers bracket and you see what lies ahead of you, it takes 27 men. You're not always going to have a good performance. You've got to have teammates pick up one another. The game was played great by both sides. [Corey] Fischer pitched a great game for those guys when they needed it. I knew it was going come down to the end. Our seniors played great.”

For his third-straight at-bat, junior first baseman Kolbey Carpenter (Waco, Texas) knocked a lead-off single to start the ninth. He was sacrificed into scoring position by junior catcher Anthony Hermelyn (McKinney, Texas) and went to third on a wild pitch. With two down, Tasin grounded a bouncer over the mound and made it safely to first, while Carpenter came home with the go-ahead run. Junior left fielder Hunter Haley (Nacogdoches,Texas) extended the inning with a double to right and Tasin crossed the plate on the second wild pitch of the inning.

The Wildcats, whose season ended at 27-30, got on the board in the first against OU sophomore right-hander Alec Hansen (Loveland, Colo.). Back-to-back singles and a passed ball gave them two runners in scoring position with only one out. Designated hitter Tyler Moore drove in a run with a single to left-center, but the trail runner was held up at third.

Hansen was pulled after just two inning of work. He surrendered one unearned run on one hit, three walks and one strikeout.

Carpenter led off the top of the fourth with a single through the left side and moved into scoring position with a stolen base. A failed pick-off attempt got Carpenter to third with no outs. The next two Sooner hitters grounded to third; freezing Carpenter. Tasin came up with two away and laced a single up the middle to tie the game.

Senior lefty Jeffrey Curran (Long Beach, Calif.) came on in relief to start the third inning. He put up five zeroes on the scoreboard and scattered four hits, while striking out three in 5.1 innings. Junior lefty Jacob Evans (Broken Arrow, Okla.) entered out of the pen with one on and one out in the eighth. With two out, Evans had the runner at first picked off, but the throw got away at second base and K-State got the potential go-ahead run to third base. Two pitches later, Evans was out of the inning with a routine groundball to second.

“We had Jeffery Curran come in unexpectedly and he did an unbelievable job giving us a chance to win,” reflected Hughes. “You see [Taylor] Alspaugh, [Joshua] Ake and other seniors doing great things in pressure situations. You usually get great results, but it's going to take 27 men from here on out. Great team win, and one game at a time.”

Evans (6-1) stayed on to pitch the ninth and earn the win as he put the Wildcats down in order.

Right-hander Corey Fischer (4-6) took the loss despite an efficient eight-plus innings of work. He surrendered two earned runs on seven hits and no walks with three strikeouts on 92 pitches.

For the game, Oklahoma out-hit Kansas State, 9-5. Carpenter led the way for the Sooners with a 3-for-4 performance. Tasin and Haley each went 2-for-4 at the plate.

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Players Mentioned

Craig Aikin

Kolbey Carpenter

Jeffrey Curran

Jacob Evans

Hunter Haley

Alec Hansen

Anthony Hermelyn

Mac James

Robert Tasin

Robert Tasin

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