Oklahoma Baseball: Sooners Drop Midweek Contest With Oral Roberts

Successful streak snapped.

Recent off of a dominant sequence sweep of Kansas over the weekend, Oklahoma obtained again to the Sooner State for a midweek collision with the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles at J.L. Johnson Stadium in Tulsa.

Sadly for Skip Johnson’s membership, the Sooners have been unable to select up their sixth straight win as a substitute falling to ORU by a last rating of 5-1 on Tuesday evening.

Getting the beginning on the mound was left-hander Braden Carmichael, who bumped into some struggles that ended his evening early.

Carmichael was solely capable of document 4 outs, permitting 4 hits and three earned runs earlier than Johnson made the transfer to the bullpen.

The back-breaking swing towards Carmichael got here within the very first inning with ORU third baseman Holden Breeze ripping a three-run triple to place the Golden Eagles in entrance early.

Shortstop Jackson Loftin added onto the ORU lead two innings later, hitting a solo house run to push the benefit to 4-0.

Former Sooner Connor Beichler got here throughout to attain on a wild pitch the next inning to increase the result in 5-0, the place it will stay into the seventh.

At that time, Oklahoma mustered a small rally to load the bases, however might solely handle one run with Hudson Polk scoring on a wild pitch.

From there, the Golden Eagles bullpen would end the job and maintain the OU offense quiet to certain up the 5-1 win. 

The loss snaps the Sooners five-game successful streak and dips them right down to 25-14 on the season.

Oklahoma will return house for Large 12 play with a three-game weekend set towards Kansas State beginning Friday evening at 6:30 at L. Dale Mitchell Park.