Oklahoma State University Athletics
Oklahoma Downs Cowboys, 10-9
April 08, 2003 | Cowboy Baseball
All proceeds from the contest went towards a special fund that will be used to aid victims of last Monday's tragic tornadoes in the state of Oklahoma.
Oklahoma jumped out to a 7-0 lead after rocking OSU starter David Rollandini for five runs, four earned, in just one inning of work. Frank Bludau relieved Rollandini in the second and gave up two unearned runs. OU freshman third baseman Tommy Whiteman led the Sooner surge with a grand-slam homer in the first, his seventh dinger of the season.
Oklahoma State rallied for three runs in the second, two coming off a Carlos Gautreaux triple and the other coming off of a Lamont Matthews RBI groundout which plated Gautreaux from third.
OSU struck for two more in the third off a two-run homer by Josh Holliday, his 13th of the year. Matthews added a solo homer to straight away center in the fourth to cut the lead to 7-6. The Pokes tied the game in the sixth when Jay McCullough, who reached on walk, advanced to second on a sacrifice and moved to third off a groundout, scored off a wild pitch from OU reliever Rocky Cherry.
Oklahoma quickly responded in the seventh with three unearned runs off of reliever Ryan Herrmann. Jeremy Vidales, Ryan Van Horn and Bobby Walters each collected RBIs in the inning.
OSU charged back with two runs of their own in the bottom half of the inning to cut the lead to one, 10-9. McCullough and Gautreaux each hit RBI doubles in the inning.
The Cowboys tried to mount another rally in the ninth but Trevor Leu lined out to right field with a man on first to end the game.
Rocky Cherry picked up the win for the Sooners and moved to 5-2 while Ryan Herrmann took the loss and dropped to 3-3. Evan Greusel pitched the final three innings for the his first save of the season.
Oklahoma improved to 28-25 overall while Oklahoma State lost for the first time in six games and fell to 37-14.
The Cowboys will be back in action this Friday in Lubbock, Texas when they face Big 12 for Texas Tech in a battle for third place in the conference standings.
Oklahoma 430 000 300 - 10 12 0
Oklahoma State 032 101 200 - 9 11 5
Bradbury, Cherry (4), Greusel (7) and Van Horn;
Rollandini, Bludau (2), Herrmann (6), Leu (7), Rushing (7) and Budde.
W- Cherry 5-2, L- Herrmann 3-3, Sv- Greusel (1).
HRs- Whiteman (7), Holliday (13), Matthews (21).
