Brylie Ware Named Big 12 Player of the Week

Ware's Week
3/20 at Wichita State	3-for-4, 2B, R
3/23 vs. West Virginia	3-for-4, 6 RBI
3/24 vs. West Virginia	2-for-4, 2 RBI
3/24 vs. West Virginia	1-for-4, GW RBI

Player of the Week
3B-Brylie Ware Ware earned the first Big 12 weekly honor by a Sooner this season and second of his career by hitting .562 (9-for-16) with nine RBI, all of which came in a sweep of WVU.

Player of the Week Since 2014
Austin O'Brien	May 15, 2017
Renae Martinez	April 3, 2017
Cody Thomas	May 16, 2016
Kolbey Carpenter	April 20, 2015 March 23, 2015 February 23, 2015
Anthony Hermelyn	April 6, 2015
Sheldon Neuse	March 9, 2015
Hector Lorenzana	March 20, 2014
Mac James	March 6, 2014

IRVING, Texas – University of Oklahoma baseball junior third baseman Brylie Ware (Sedgwick, Kan.) earned his second career weekly honor from the Big 12 as the conference Player of the Week for the week ending March 25. A 2017 Big 12 Co-Newcomer of the Year, Ware earned his first weekly honor as the Newcomer of the Week on March 13, 2016.

In a 3-1 week for the Sooners, Ware hit a team-leading .562 (9-for-16), including .500 (6-for-12) with nine RBI in a series sweep of West Virginia at home. He went 3-for-4 in each of the first two games of the week beginning at No. 26 Wichita State on Tuesday night. Ware opened the series vs. the Mountaineers by complimenting his three-hit night with a career-high six RBI; the most by a Sooner since Craig Aikin's six vs. Little Rock (3/3/15). He singled, doubled and tripled in the Sooners' 19-6 win.

Ware was 2-for-4 with two RBI and a double in game one of Saturday's doubleheader and 1-for-4 in the nightcap; driving in the game-winning run on a sixth-inning base hit. For the week, he totaled three doubles and three runs scored.

Two Sooners earned Big 12 Player of the Week in 2017; Renae Martinez (4/3/17) and Austin O'Brien (5/15/17).

Oklahoma is at home for four games this week beginning against Oklahoma State in a non-conference Bedlam tilt on Tuesday, March27 at 6:30 p.m. Due to the Easter holiday, the Sooners' weekend series vs. Baylor begins on Thursday, March 29 and wraps up Saturday, March 31 at 4 p.m. as OU's annual “Bark in the Park” event, where fans can bring their dogs to L. Dale Mitchell Park. Additional information will be available at SoonerSports.com later this week.