Oklahoma State set to battle Texas in top-10 showdown – Daily Ardmoreite

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The Oklahoma State College baseball staff, which is No. 7 within the nation, travels to Austin this weekend for a three-game collection in opposition to No. 6 Texas.

The Cowboys (28-13 total, 10-5 Large 12) are coming off a 12-6 victory over Wichita State on Tuesday in Kansas. OSU dropped two of three to TCU at residence this previous weekend.

In the meantime, the Longhorns (31-13, 9-6 Large 12) enter the competition on a five-game successful streak. Texas cruised to a 7-2 victory over College of Texas Rio Grande Valley on Tuesday and swept a house collection with Baylor.

The Large 12 rivals kick off motion at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 29 with OSU’s Justin Campbell (6-1, 2.89) dealing with off in opposition to Texas’ Pete Hansen (7-1, 2.70).

The Cowboys are 48-64 within the alltime collection in opposition to the Longhorns, together with a 20-11 mark beneath Josh Holliday. In 2021, the Pokes went 2-2 in opposition to the Horns, dropping the common season collection however successful a recreation within the Large 12 Championship.

‘Okay’onsistency

Justin Campbell leads the Large 12 and ranks sixth nationally with 95 strikeouts this season. He has posted double digit strikeout totals 4 occasions and has struck out not less than eight in 9 of his 10 begins. He racked up a career-high 14 punchouts within the collection opener in opposition to TCU.

Jake rakes

With a team-leading .333 batting common and 41 RBIs, Jake Thompson has established himself as one of many Large 12’s high hitters.

Thompson, who Josh Holliday calls among the best two-strike hitters he’s ever coached, has reached base safely in 52 of OSU’s final 57 video games, together with a streak of 25 consecutive video games throughout that stretch, and he leads the Cowboys with 15 multi-hit and 11 multi-RBI video games.

Small city, huge time

What’s it about OSU closers and small cities?! We don’t know, however Trevor Martin is constant a pattern.

Martin hails from Asher, Oklahoma, inhabitants 412, and the right-hander is 1-2 with a 3.34 ERA in a team-high 22 appearances (20 in reduction). He’s second within the Large 12 with 9 saves and has 46 strikeouts in 29.2 innings of labor. He’s already tied for fifth on OSU’s single-season saves checklist – and one away from shifting right into a tie for second – and he ranks tenth nationally in saves.

Martin is one among 62 reduction pitchers on the NCBWA Stopper of the 12 months Award Midseason Watch Checklist.

In 2014, Brendan McCurry set OSU’s single-season saves document with 19 to earn first-team All-America honors. A local of Tupelo, Oklahoma, inhabitants 330, McCurry can also be the Cowboys’ chief in profession saves with 27. His brother, Randy, had 10 saves in 2009 and completed his profession with a dozen.

One other small-town Oklahoma child, Jordy Mercer, from Taloga, Oklahoma, inhabitants 300, served as OSU’s nearer from 2006-08 and ranks second on OSU’s all-time checklist with 17 saves.

Two-way expertise

Nolan McLean’s highly effective bat has been a fixture in the course of the Cowboys’ order all through the season, and he has additionally seen elevated work on the mound of late. The sophomore leads the Cowboys with 9 residence runs and is second with 11 doubles. He has hit safely in 19 of OSU’s final 22 contests.

McLean, a hard-throwing right-hander, has additionally made 13 reduction appearances on the season and is 1-0 with two saves; he has racked up 28 strikeouts in 16.0 innings. He recorded his first-career save at Wichita State on April 5 and notched his first win vs. Oklahoma on April 9.