Game Notes: Oklahoma vs. Central Connecticut (Doubleheader)

Game Notes: Oklahoma vs. Central Connecticut (Doubleheader)
Location: Norman, Okla. - L. Dale Mitchell Park
Result: Win, 13-2; Win, 6-1
Attendance: 1,007
Date: March 4, 2017

Notes

Team:

All 13 games have been started by sophomore pitchers.
The Sooners stretched their win-streak to 11; the best since 13 in a row in 2013.
In game one, Oklahoma hit back-to-back home runs for the second time this season as Brady Lindsly and Kyle Mendenhall both went deep in the seventh.
Oklahoma's 13 runs in game one is the second most scored by the Sooners this season and marked the sixth game in double digits.

Austin Hansen:

Scoreless-streak to start the season ended at 12 innings with a run scored against him in the fifth inning of game two.

Kyle Mendenhall:

Hit his team-leading third home run of the season in game one.

Austin O'Brien:

Extended hit-streak to 10 games with one hit in each.
Posted the 23^rd double of his career.

Steele Walker:

Made his first start in right field this season during game one. Has started at all three outfield positions in 2017.
Totaled five hits on the day to move his hit streak to 16 games. It is the longest hit-streak by a Sooner since Craig Aikin's 15-game streak beginning at the end of the 2014 season and ending in the 2015 season.
Pushed his multi-hit game total to seven with 22 in his career.
Picked up his 21^st career double.
Set a career-high for RBI with four in game one.