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University of Oklahoma Athletics
Lightning Suspends Friday Night Opener
April 28, 2017 | Baseball
GRANVILLE, W.Va. – The University of Oklahoma baseball team's series opener at West Virginia was suspended after the fifth inning due to lightning in the area of Monongalia County Ballpark on Friday night. The Sooners lead the game, 2-1, through five innings. OU and WVU will resume play at 1 p.m. CT on Saturday.
The game went into its first delay after the top of the fifth and was in a one-hour, 40-minute delay before play was resumed. Only one more half inning was played before a second stoppage was called for as lightning returned.
Sophomore right-hander Jake Irvin (Bloomington, Minn.) pitched the first four innings for Oklahoma and worked himself into and out of trouble in each inning. Ultimately, he allowed just one run and six hits and five strikeouts. Freshman RHP Nathan Wiles (Overland Park, Kan.) recorded three outs on the three batters faced in the fifth.
The Sooners struck for the first two runs of the night in the top of the third. Sophomore left fielder Cade Harris (Leona, Texas) smashed a triple to the track in dead center to score junior second baseman Kyle Mendenhall (Carlsbad, Calif.), who reached on a leadoff-hit-by-pitch. Senior third baseman Jack Flansburg (Orange, Calif.) then lifted a sacrifice-fly to score Harris and double the OU lead.
The Mountaineers got a run back against Irvin in the fourth with a two-out rally, aided by a wild pitch.
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