Sooners Send Regular Season Champs Packing

⁵ Texas Tech

Oklahoma

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Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
TTU	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	X	X	4	7	1
OU	2	0	6	5	4	0	X	X	X	17	17	0

Pitching
	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
W - Grove (3-1)	7.0	7	4	4	7	6
L - Gingery (4-2)	2.2	6	8	3	2	1
S - N/A	-	-	-	-	-	-

Individual Leaders
	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	HR
OU - Wise	5	0	2	5	0	0
OU - O'Brien	5	2	2	3	0	1
OU - Thomas	4	3	2	3	0	0

Player of the Game
RF-Alex Wise, Sr. Wise leads the field at the tournament with nine RBI. He followed up a career performance of four on Thursday with five in a two-for-five effort to beat top-seeded Texas Tech.

OKLAHOMA CITY – The University of Oklahoma baseball team sent top-seeded Texas Tech home with a 17-4, run-rule win in an elimination game at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark on Friday afternoon. The fifth-seeded Sooners advanced to face West Virginia at 9:00 am on Saturday with a 30-26-1 record. The Red Raiders await their postseason destination with a 41-16 mark.

For the second day in a row, every OU player in the lineup recorded a hit. Today, eight of the nine recorded multiple hits, including senior right fielder Alex Wise (Neosho, Mo.) who went 2-for-5 in the leadoff spot with a career-high five RBI.

After being shutout in their Big 12 Championship opener against the Mountaineers on Wednesday, the Sooners have responded by scoring 30 runs on 30 hits in the last two days.

“Elimination day again and our guys responded like we wanted them to respond,” opened head coach Pete Hughes. “It was a complete victory. One strikeout in seven innings of play is pretty efficient, offensively.”

On the mound, freshman right-hander Dylan Grove (Oklahoma City) went the distance in his home city. In the shortened, seven-inning affair, he struck out six and got around seven walks, which included two intentional passes. Grove (3-1) allowed four runs and surrendered seven hits, while throwing 133 pitches.

“Dylan did just enough and his stuff is good enough to get settled in, work through jams and pitch effectively with a big lead,” Hughes said of Grove, who has made just one Big 12 start as a rookie.

Grove and the Sooners, who were the home team, had to battle from behind as Texas Tech got two runs on the board in the top of the first. Second baseman Michael Davis hit a one-out, solo home run to get the scoring started with his first long ball of the year. Designated hitter Anthony Lyons then tripled and scored when first baseman Eric Gutierrez got in a rundown between first and second.

Oklahoma got its offense going with a one-out walk followed by a double to right by freshman designated hitter Steele Walker (Prosper, Texas) that put two in scoring position. Junior shortstop Sheldon Neuse (Fort Worth, Texas) quickly tied the game with a two-run base hit up the middle.

The Red Raiders briefly regained the lead in the third. Davis picked up a leadoff-single and scored on a bounding ball up the middle off the bat of center fielder Cory Raley.

The Sooners would respond once again in the bottom half of the third. Junior center fielder Ben Hollas (Longview, Texas) and Walker set the table with back-to-back singles. Hollas scored the tying run on a fielder's choice and Walker crossed home to give OU its first lead on a second fielder's choice. Oklahoma wound up scoring six runs in the inning on six hits as all nine batters went to the plate, including Wise with a two-run single up the middle to push the score to 8-3.

The scoring continued for the Sooners in each of the next two innings with big, crooked numbers. Neuse singled to lead off the fourth before junior first baseman Austin O'Brien (Owasso, Okla.) drilled a two-run shot, his fifth home run of the year, out to left. Oklahoma got five runs on five hits as Wise added his second two-run single of the day.

In the fifth, the Sooners tacked on four more runs to put the game at its final score. Three-straight hits started the inning, including a two-run double from junior left fielder Cody Thomas (Colleyville, Texas).

Lefty Steven Gingery (4-2) took the loss for the Red Raiders. He allowed eight runs, only three of which were earned, on six hits and two walks in 2.2 innings of work. Lyons, making just his second start of the year, went 3-for-3 at the plate.

Oklahoma has advanced to the semifinals for the second-straight year and is now 5-5, including a 5-2 mark in elimination games, in three championships under Hughes.