Oklahoma Baseball: Sooners Roll Pacific to Close Weekend

NORMAN – Ended the weekend on a excessive notice. 

After dropping a high-scoring affair to Lamar on Friday evening, Oklahoma completed up the weekend at L. Dale Mitchell Park with a collision towards Pacific.

The Sooners obtained again on monitor on Saturday afternoon cruising by the Tigers with a ultimate rating of 10-2. 

Getting the beginning nod for the weekend finale was right-hander David Sandlin, who would flip in one in all his strongest outings of the season. 

The JUCO switch tossed six rock strong innings permitting just one run and 5 hits whereas placing out 5. 

Oklahoma didn’t wait lengthy to get the scoring began, with the piping-hot Brett Squires ripping a single to proper discipline to attain Cade Horton within the second.

Hudson Polk then drove in Squires with an RBI double to have the Sooners holding a 2-0 lead after two frames.

The Tigers reduce that lead in half two innings later within the fourth with catcher Jacob Weiss singling to left discipline to plate Pacific’s first run.

However, now with the lead down to at least one run, the Oklahoma offense responded with their largest inning of the day within the backside half.

The Sooners struck for 4 runs within the flip at bat, with Polk getting it began with an RBI triple.

Polk then got here throughout on a groundout earlier than Tanner Tredaway ballooned the lead out with a two-run double plating each Peyton Graham and Blake Robertson. The Sooners led 6-1 by way of 4.

OU tacked on one other the next inning with Squires coming round on a wild pitch to make the Oklahoma benefit 7-1 by way of 5. 

The Tigers would add on yet another run within the seventh to inch a little bit nearer, however the Sooners weren’t completed scoring both. 

Within the eighth, Tredaway, Crooks and Kendall Pettis all labored themselves across the bases to increase the OU result in 10-2. 

Carter Campbell and Carson Atwood closed out the sport in aid of Sandlin recording the ultimate 9 outs to complete off the ballgame. 

The win strikes Oklahoma to 21-13 on the season and is their third within the final 4 video games.

The Sooners will now get a few days to relaxation up earlier than internet hosting Wichita State on Tuesday evening at 6:30 p.m. again at L. Dale Mitchell Park in Norman.