OU Heads Back to Globe Life Field to Face Northwestern State

Friday, February 25

Arlington, Texas

12 p.m.

University of Oklahoma

Northwestern State

Tickets

Photo by: Joshua R. Gateley

OU Heads Back to Globe Life Field to Face Northwestern State

February 24, 2022 | Baseball

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Oklahoma

Northwestern State

Friday-Sunday, Feb. 25-27 / Arlington, Texas / Globe Life Field

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Matchups
Game Time	OU Projected Starters	NSU Projected Starters
Friday, noon	LHP Jake Bennett	LHP Cal Carver
Saturday, 6:30 p.m.	RHP David Sandlin	RHP Jonathan Harmon
Sunday, 5:30 p.m.	LHP Chazz Martinez	RHP Drayton Brown

First Pitch

• Oklahoma and Northwestern face off in a three-game series this weekend at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas. Game times are noon Friday, 6:30 p.m. Saturday and 5:30 p.m. Sunday. OU will be the home team for all three games.
• The series was originally scheduled to be played at L. Dale Mitchell Park in Norman, but due to inclement weather in Oklahoma, the teams agreed to move the series to Arlington, where the games can be played under the closed roof at Globe Life Field.

Watch/Listen/Follow

• The games will be broadcast locally on Sportstalk 99.3 FM/1400 AM KREF, and streamed live on SoonerSports.tv. The radio broadcast can also be found at Sportstalk1400.com and on the Sportstalk1400 app. Toby Rowland will have the radio call for all three games, which will be tied into the video stream.
• Live stats will be available at OUStats.com.

Tickets

• General admission single-day and full-weekend tickets can be purchased at texasrangers.com/collegebaseball. Single-day tickets and weekend passes include the OU-NSU games as well as the previously scheduled series between TCU and Nebraska at Globe Life Field.

Leading Off

• Oklahoma defeated Wichita State 6-2 on Tuesday in its home opener at L. Dale Mitchell Park. OU registered 11 stolen bases, one shy of the school record of 12 set in 1937 against East Central (Okla.) University. Three Sooners notched three steals in the game, the first time since 2012 even one OU player had three steals in a single game.
• Oklahoma is in its fifth season under the direction of head coach Skip Johnson (including the 2020 season that was shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson, who spent the 2017 season on staff as an assistant coach, has led the Sooners to a 115-81 record since taking over as head coach prior to the 2018 season.
• The Sooners will now open the season by playing three consecutive weekends at a Major League ballpark. Oklahoma opened the season by winning two of three games in the State Farm College Baseball Showdown at Globe Life Field last weekend. OU will play next weekend (March 4-6) at the Shriners Hospitals for Children College Classic at Minute Maid Park in Houston. Oklahoma could also return to Globe Life Field in May for the 2022 Big 12 Championship, which will include the league's top eight teams in the standings, will be held at Globe Life Field May 25-29.
• This is the fourth straight season in which Oklahoma has played at least one game in a Major League Ballpark. OU played two games at Globe Life Field in 2021, three at Houston's Minute Maid Park in 2020 (Shriners College Classic) and one contest against Minnesota at Target Field in Minneapolis (2019).

Series History

• Oklahoma leads the all-time series against Northwestern State, 5-1. All six meetings (three in 2013 and three in 2005) were played in Norman. NSU's only win in the series was the first game in 2005, 13-10 in 12 innings. OU outscored the Demons 38-19 in the other five contests between the teams.

#LaunchPad

• The #LaunchPad is back for 2022. For the second straight year, pledged donations to a customized dollar amount for every homer that OU baseball hits in 2022 will go towards the the stadium renovation project. For more information, visit TheSoonerClub.com/LaunchPad.
• All donations from the Pledge Per Home Run Campaign will be treated as charitable donations supporting either the OU Softball Stadium Project or the OU Baseball Stadium Renovation Project and are tax-deductible.

Theft on the Pasepaths

• The Sooners have registered 17 stolen bases in 18 attempts through the first four games of the season. Kendall Pettis and Tanner Tredaway lead the team with four steals apiece, while Peyton Graham and Blake Robertson each have three steals.
• OU's most steals over the last four seasons was 46, last year. The Sooners registered 32 steals in 18 games during the COVID-shortened 2020 season, 29 steals in 2019 and 44 steals in 2018.
• Oklahoma finished opening weekend with six stolen bases over three games, then went off for 11 steals against Wichita State on Tuesday. Three players — Graham, Pettis and Tredaway — each had three stolen bases in the game.
• Prior to Tuesday, no single Sooner had stolen three bases in a game since Erik Ross against Hartford in 2012. Oklahoma (3-1) finished the Wichita State game one steal shy of the school record of 12, set in 1937 against East Central (Okla.) University.

Recap Opening Week

• Oklahoma has won three of four games to open the 2022 season. The Sooners sandwiched victories over Auburn (3-0) and Michigan (6-1) around a loss to No. 15 Arizona (14-4) at the State Farm College Baseball Showdown at Globe Life Field, then defeated Wichita State (6-2) in its home opener at L. Dale Mitchell Park on Tuesday.
• Braden Carmichael earned the victory on the mound Tuesday by allowing one run on six scattered hits and striking out four batters over 5.0 innings. Trevin Michael pitched the final four frames, striking out five batters, to earn the extended outing save. Cade Horton drove in two runs with RBI singles, the first career hits for the redshirt freshman from Norman. Tredaway got the scoring started with a two-run double in the first inning, and OU registered 11 stolen bases in the ballgame.
• The Sooners registered six stolen bases in seven attempts over opening weekend, including five on Sunday night against Michigan. Four different players stole a base, and Blake Roberson picked up three on his own. The 6'5" first baseman – who was the designated hitter for all three games – led the Sooners with three steals (3 for 3). The junior college transfer redshirt sophomore also went 3 for 11 with three walks in his first regular baseball game in three years.
• Trent Brown led the Sooners with four RBIs, and all of them came on two hits. He hit a two-run single in the fourth inning against Arizona, as OU cut into the five-run deficit, then gave the Sooners a 2-0 lead in the second inning against Michigan with a two-run double into the left center field gap. Jimmy Crooks and Diego Muniz joined Robertson with three hits and three walks over the weekend. Crooks, who was also hit twice, posted a .667 on-base percentage while Muniz (hit once) turned in a .700 OBP
• Jake Bennett pitched 5.0 scoreless innings in Friday's win over Auburn, allowing just one hit and two walks. After a double to lead off the second inning, he faced just one over the minimum for the rest of his outing, retiring six in a row following the hit.
• David Sandlin pitched 4.1 innings against Arizona on Saturday night, striking out four batters. He retired the first five batters in the order, worked around a single in the second and rebounded from the Wildcats' five-run third inning with a scoreless fourth frame.
• Chazz Martinez struck out five batters over 4.2 innings in the Sunday night finale against Michigan. He scattered four hits, walked none, and the lone run allowed was unearned. After Michigan's RBI double in the fourth inning, he retired four in a row.
• The bullpen was electric in the two victories. Jaret Godman picked up the save on Friday and was perfect in the ninth inning on Sunday. Freshman Colton Sundloff pitched 2.0 shutout innings with one hit and one walk against Auburn and Griffin Miller went 2.2 against Michigan, punching out four batters and retiring his first eight. Carter Campbell, after tossing an inning on Friday, got the final out of the eighth inning on Sunday, and Carson Atwood stranded two runners with a strikeout looking in the fifth inning.
• Peyton Graham hit OU's only home run of opening week — a two-run blast to left field in the seventh inning of the season opener to give the Sooners a 2-0 lead vs. Auburn. He also singled, doubled and scored two runs.
• Several players made their first appearance in an Oklahoma uniform during opening weekend. Junior college transfers Robertson, Sandlin, Martinez, Miller, Campbell, Sebastian Orduno and Creed Watkins all saw action. Redshirt freshman Cade Horton, who missed the 2021 season with an injury, started all three games at third base. True freshmen Sundloff, Aaron Calhoun, Max McGwire and Jackson Nicklaus made their collegiate debuts in the major league ballpark. Graduate transfer pitcher Trevin Michael, a Piedmont, Okla., native who came from Lamar, earned the save on Tuesday.