No. 9 Sooners Face Longhorns for Three in Texas

April 7-9 | Austin, Texas | UFCU Disch-Falk Field

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Weekend Pitching Match-Ups
First Pitch	Oklahoma	Texas
Friday, 7 p.m.	RHP-Dylan Grove (1-1, 2.86)	RHP-Nolan Kingham (4-2, 1.02)
>>>Last Start	vs. Texas Tech (3/31): W, 6.0 IP, 1 R, 11 K	at Kansas (3/31): W, 7.0 IP, 3 R, 5 K
Saturday, 4 p.m.	RHP-Jake Irvin (5-0, 1.16)	RHP-Morgan Cooper (3-2, 1.44)
>>>Last Start	at Kennesaw State (3/17): W, 6.0 IP, 2 R, 6 K	at Kansas (4/1): L, 5.0 IP, 1 R, 7 K
Sunday, 2:30 p.m.	TBA	TBA
>>>Last Start	N/A	N/A

Oklahoma Sooners
Record: 26-6 (4-2 Big 12) Coach: Pete Hughes (4th Season) Career Record/Years: 643-474-3/21 Rank: 9^BA/10^N/12^CBN/14^USA/16^D1B

Texas Longhorns
Record: 20-12 (4-5 Big 12) Coach: David Pierce (1st Season) Career Record/Years: 215-119/6 Rank: NR

On the Air
TV/Stream	FS1 (Friday) FOXSportsGo (Friday) Dave Barnett Pat Combs LHN (Saturday) LHN (Sunday) Lowell Galindo Keith Moreland Greg Swindell
Radio	KREF 1400 AM TuneIn Radio App Toby Rowland Chris Plank (Saturday) Ross Hubbard

Player to Watch
3B-Jack Flansburg, Sr. Flansburg, a .275 hitter on the season, has reached base in 12-straight cames and walked a team-high 24 times this season. He went 3-for-10 with five RBI against Texas in Norman last season.

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FIRST PITCH

The No. 9 University of Oklahoma baseball team heads back on the road for its third Big 12 series of the season coming at Texas. Friday night's game gets underway at 7 p.m. and is the beginning of an eight-game road swing for the Sooners. Game two will take place Saturday at 4 p.m. and game three Sunday at 2 p.m. Games one and three can be heard across the Sooners Sports Network with all three games airing locally on the Sportstalk 1400 AM/99.3 FM. The voice of the Sooners Toby Rowland (play-by-play) will have the call Friday and Sunday with veteran OU broadcaster Chris Plank filling in on Saturday. Former Sooner Ross Hubbard (color commentary) will be in the booth for all three games. Friday night's game will be televised nationally on FS1 with Dave Barnett (pbp) and Pat Combs (color) on the call. The remaining two games will air on the Longhorn Network with Lowell Galindo (pbp), Keith Moreland (color) and Greg Swindell (color).

ABOUT THE SOONERS

Oklahoma is coming off back-to-back Big 12 series wins and a midweek victory over Oral Roberts on Tuesday to hit Austin with a 26-6 overall record, the best at OU since 1985, and a 4-2 conference mark. The Sooners got their top hitter back into the lineup vs. ORU as senior first baseman Austin O'Brien returned from missing 12 games due to a torn left UCL. He is hitting a team-leading .380 and slugging .634. Sophomore Brylie Ware, who filled in at first over the last three weeks, is second with a .351 average and 23 runs scored. Sophomore outfielder Steele Walker is third on the team at .349 with a team-leading 29 runs, 29 RBI and 10 doubles. On the mound, sophomore right-hander Dylan Grove goes for OU in game one. He is 1-1 with a 2.86 earned run average. Fellow sophomore RHP Jake Irvin returns to the rotation Saturday. He is 5-0 with a 1.16 ERA and last pitched on March 17 at Kennesaw State.

SCOUTING THE LONGHORNS

Texas is 20-12 overall and 4-5 in the Big 12 under first-year head coach David Pierce after taking just one of three from Kansas over the weekend and a win against Sam Houston State on Tuesday. Catcher Michael McCann is Texas' top hitter at .368 with a.439 slugging percentage. First baseman Kacy Clemens is second at .313 with 28 runs scored and 11 doubles. Outfielder Tate Shaw holds a slugging percentage of .475 and a .288 average. RHP Nolan Kingham gets the ball on Friday and RHP Morgan Cooper on Saturday. Kingham is 4-2 with a 1.02 ERA, while Cooper is 3-2 with a 1.44 ERA.

THE FORECAST

Projected Starters
OU Lineup	BA/OBP/SLG	Notes
SS-Brandon Zaragoza	.290/.385/.320	Nine-game hit-streak snapped Sunday vs. Tech.
LF-Steele Walker	.349/.403/.571	Collected 100th career hit Friday vs. Tech.
3B-Jack Flansburg	.275/.406/.343	Has reached base in 12 straight games.
1B-Austin O'Brien	.380/.444/.634	Missed 12 games from 3/11 to 4/2 with torn left UCL.
DH-Brylie Ware	.351/.453/.402	Named Nig 12 Newcomer of the Week (3/13).
C-Renae Martinez	.340/.388/.543	Named Big 12 Player of the Week (4/3).
CF-Ben Hollas	.275/.427/.400	Walk-off single to beat Texas (4/3/16).
2B-Kyle Mendenhall	.280/.368/.458	Hit walk-off home run to beat No. 2 Texas Tech (4/2).
RF-Blake Brewster	.302/.422/.604	Go-ahead three-run home run at Baylor (3/24).

Last 10 Meetings
Year	Result	Location
2016	Win, 4-3	Norman
	Loss, 3-5	Norman
	Win, 5-1	Norman
2015	Win, 3-2	Austin
	Loss, 1-4	Austin
	Win, 3-2 (12)	Austin
2014	Loss, 1-8	Norman
	Loss, 2-7	Norman
	Loss, 8-10	Norman
2013	Win, 4-2	Austin

ALL-TIME VS. TEXAS

Currently, the Longhorns lead the Sooners in the series, 127-51-2. The Sooners answered a sweep at home in 2014 by winning their second series in a row down in Austin in 2015 and have now won back-to-back and two of the last three vs. UT. Oklahoma's series victory in 2013 was the first over Texas in 15 years. OU's 2015 and 2016 series wins are the first back-to-back since 1997 and 1998; the last Sooner series win prior to 2013. The two sides have met in the College World Series six times; 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 and 1992. Oklahoma twice defeated Texas in the NCAA Central Regional in Austin to advance to the CWS and win the 1994 National Championship.

LAST TIME THEY MET

On April 3, 2016, Oklahoma claimed its first series win over Texas at home since a sweep in 1998. OU won the game 4-3. Sheldon Neuse hit his team-leading fifth home run of the season in the first inning. Jake Elliott matched his season-high with six strikeouts and Ben Hollas provided the walk-off hit, a RBI-single to right in the ninth to claim a 4-3 win. The Sooners won the first game of the series, 6-1, before the Longhorns evened things up with a 5-3 win on Saturday.

Next Home Game
Oklahoma vs. Kansas April 21 \| Norman, Okla. The Sooners are on the road for eight in a row before returning to face Kansas in a Big 12 series. April 22 will be round two of OU's Bark in the Park. TICKETS

BY THE NUMBERS: Sooners vs. UT

Austin O'Brien, Oklahoma's lone four-year player, has the most experience against Texas. In eight career games, he is a .308 (8-for-26) hitter, including a home run in game one last year in Norman. Jack Flansburg went 3-for-10 in last year's series with five RBI.

100 IN UNDER 100

Steele Walker collected two hits against Texas Tech (3/31) to reach 100 career hits. Doing so in his 86th career game, he tied for the eighth fastest to reach 100 hits at OU since 2003. Overall, Walker became the 14th Sooner with 100 career hits in less than 100 career games in the last 15 seasons.

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