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University of Oklahoma Athletics
Tuesday, April 2
Wichita, Kan.
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OU Begins Road Trip at Wichita State
April 01, 2024 | Baseball
Oklahoma
Wichita State
April 2 / Wichita, Kan. / Eck Stadium
FIRST PITCH
• Oklahoma opens a four-game road trip with a midweek matchup at Wichita State Tuesday evening at 6 p.m. CT at Eck Stadium.
• The game can be seen via ESPN+ and heard locally in Oklahoma on SportsTalk 1400 AM/99.3 FM or nationwide on The Varsity app. Live stats can be found at OUStats.com. Toby Rowland will be on the OU radio call.
• The Sooners enter Tuesday with a 15-12 record and 7-2 record in conference play, good for first place in the Big 12 standings.
LEADING OFF
• At nearly the halfway mark of the season, the Sooners hold a 15-12 record, highlighted by a top-10 win over then-No. 9 Tennessee, a walk-off victory over former conference foe Nebraska and a 7-2 start to Big 12 play with sweeps over UCF and then-No. 12 TCU.
• The Sooners started 6-0 in Big 12 play, good for the best start in conference play since the 2018 team started 8-1. The Sooners sit first in the conference standings and hold the most Big 12 wins of any conference team with seven (7-2).
• OU cracked the top 25 rankings for the first time this season and for the first time since 2022 on March 18, being ranked in all five major polls and as high as No. 14. The Sooners held a ranked spot last week by three of the five polls but have since dropped out after last week's series loss to Lamar.
• Oklahoma is in its seventh 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 204-144 record, three NCAA Tournament appearances, the 2022 Big 12 tournament championship and the 2022 College World Series finals since taking over as head coach prior to the 2018 season.
THE NUMBERS
• On the season, the Sooners are batting .305 as a team, paced by senior John Spikerman's .394 average and junior Jackson Nicklaus' .393 clip. Graduate transfer Michael Snyder leads the team with 34 RBIs, while Snyder and Nicklaus each have five home runs to pace OU. Senior Bryce Madron has drawn a team-best 23 walks. Madron, Snyder and sophomore Easton Carmichael share the team lead with seven doubles each.
• On the mound, the Oklahoma pitching staff has a 4.94 team ERA with 269 strikeouts to 126 walks.
• 10 Sooners have homered so far in the early season for a total of 27 team blasts, led by Snyder and Nicklaus' five, while six other Sooners have homered twice.
• Fourteen Sooners have brought in at least one run, with seven plating at least 10 runs.
• Junior LHP transfer Braden Davis has been solid in his seven starting appearances as a Sooner, leading OU with 43 strikeouts in 34.0 innings pitched.
• Sophomore righty transfer Kyson Witherspoon paces the team with a 1.41 ERA in 32.0 IP to go with 37 strikeouts, while junior transfer Brendan Girton has 31 strikeouts in 22.1 innings pitched.
• The pitching staff has recorded double-digit strikeouts in 15 of OU's first 27 games with a season-high 15 three times (vs. Tennessee [2/17], vs. Wright State [2/24], vs. West Virginia [3/22]).
• The Sooner arms have thrown three shutouts in 27 games played in 2024, already surpassing last season's total of two in 60 games.
• The Sooners have had 17 pitchers make appearances so far in 2024, with 11 registering 10-or-more strikeouts, led by junior LHP Braden Davis' 43 and sophomore RHP Kyson Witherspoon's 37.
• Head coach and pitching coach Skip Johnson and the Sooners have 22 pitchers on the roster in 2024.
RECAPPING THE SEASON'S START
• After dropping the season opener to Oregon, the Sooners bounced back in a big way with a pair of wins vs. No. 9 Tennessee and Nebraska in dramatic fashion at the season-opening Shriners Children's College Classic at Globe Life Field in Arlington.
• Opening the home slate vs. Wright State, the Sooners came sprinting out of the gates on offense, putting up a combined 46 runs on the weekend, highlighted by a 20-0 home-opening day win on Friday.
• The Sooners opened Big 12 play in dominant fashion, sweeping a UCF team that came to Norman at 9-1 and fresh off a win at No. 4 Florida. The Sooners pitching and hitting was firing on all cylinders as OU outscored the Knights 29-8 on the weekend, capped by a 14-2, seven inning run-rule on Sunday.
• Oklahoma stayed unbeaten in conference play with an impressive three-game sweep of No. 12 TCU in Fort Worth. It marked OU's first sweep of TCU at Lupton Stadium and first sweep over the Horned Frogs since 2013.
• OU has fallen in back to back series after the hot start to Big 12 play, dropping home series' to West Virginia and Lamar.
• Fans have tuned in and showed out for the trending Sooners, with attendance records being set at L. Dale Mitchell Park in Norman. On home-opening weekend, the fan base set records for: largest opening day attendance, largest student attendance and largest opening series attendance.
• 4,177 fans attended the midweek Bedlam matchup on March 12, ranking second all-time in program single game attendance.
DAVIS, HENSLEY COMBINE ON NO-HITTER
• Juniors Braden Davis and Reid Hensley pitched a combined no-hitter on March 22, totaling 15 strikeouts, as OU shut out West Virginia 13-0.
• Davis struck out a career-high 12 batters over 7.0 innings, allowing only two walks, while Hensley tossed the final two frames, striking out three and walking one. The 15 total strikeouts tied a season high for the OU pitching staff.
• The no-hitter was the program's ninth all-time and the second combined effort. OU's last no-hitter was a solo feat by Dane Acker against LSU on March 1, 2020. The last combined no-hitter was on March 9, 2005, against Arkansas-Pine Bluff by six pitchers (Kevin Duke, John Browenn, Daniel McCutchen, Ryan Mottern, Will Savage and P.J. Sandoval).
• It was the second no-hitter recorded in Oklahoma head coach Skip Johnson's tenure.
• The Mountaineers only managed four baserunners, none of which advanced past the first bag.
• Following a fifth-inning walk, Davis ended the frame with two strikeouts and went on to punch out the side in the sixth and seventh innings, ending his outing with eight straight strikeouts.
• Hensley entered to start the eighth inning and retired six of his seven batters, striking out three.
LED BY THE VETS
• Veteran leadership in the field highlights the 2024 Oklahoma squad, paced by redshirt seniors Kendall Pettis and Michael Snyder, seniors Anthony Mackenzie and Bryce Madron, and juniors Jackson Nicklaus and John Spikerman.
• The six combine for 891 career games played and 835 starts. Production at the plate includes a combined 90 home runs, 152 doubles and 516 RBIs.
RANKINGS CHATTER
• The Sooners made their season debut in the polls the week of March 18, earning spots in all five major polls. In last week's polls, the Sooners held top-25 spots in three of the five rankings before falling out this week after the series loss to Lamar.
• Oklahoma holds the No. 2 strength of schedule in the nation, already playing seven ranked opponents, going 5-2 in such games.
• OU ranks 23rd in the latest NCAA RPI, having been as high as third this season.
• OU is an undefeated 5-0 in games vs. 2023 Men's College World Series participants, beating No. 9 Tennessee, a three-game sweep of No. 12 TCU and a run-rule win over Oral Roberts.
THE SKIPPER SURPASSES 200 WINS AT OU
• OU head coach Skip Johnson collected his 200th career victory at Oklahoma on March 15 with OU's 7-3 win at No. 12 TCU.
• Oklahoma is in its seventh season under the direction 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 204-144 record, three NCAA Tournament appearances, the 2022 Big 12 tournament championship and the 2022 College World Series finals since taking over as head coach prior to the 2018 season.
• Johnson holds 618 career wins as a head coach, earning 414 at Navarro (TX) College before making the jump to Division I baseball where he's won 204 at OU.
UP NEXT
• OU travels to Stillwater to meet Oklahoma State for the Bedlam Series presented by Phillips 66.
• The three-game conference series begins Friday with first pitch scheduled for 6 p.m. CT at O'Brate Stadium. Saturday and Sunday's games begin at 6 p.m. and 1 p.m., respectively.
• All three games can be seen via Big 12 NOW on ESPN+ and heard locally in Oklahoma on SportsTalk 1400 AM/99.3 FM or nationwide on The Varsity app.
L. DALE MITCHELL PARK EXPANSION PROJECT
• The Oklahoma baseball facility enhancement project will transform the look of the ballpark from both the interior bowl and the exterior of the stadium. New locker rooms, training areas, coaches offices and team meeting areas combined with chairback seating, terraced berms and additional awnings and concourses will provide a first-class facility for fans and student-athletes. In addition, a new, state-of-the-art performance and player development center will be added. A new entry to the team areas will include a Champions Lobby, displaying the success and tradition of the Oklahoma baseball program.
• More than 35,000 in square-foot-space of new areas benefiting student-athlete performance and recovery including a robust medical services area, weight room and sports science to centralize student-athlete training at the baseball field.
• For more information and to donate to the L. Dale Mitchell project, visit The Sooner Club.
For updates and more information on Oklahoma baseball, follow the Sooners on Twitter and Instagram (@OU_Baseball) and like Oklahoma Baseball on Facebook.
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