Oklahoma State University Athletics
Cowboys Head To Kansas State Looking To Extend Winning Streak
April 27, 2006 | Cowboy Baseball
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Kansas State (24-13-1, 4-10-1)
April 28-30 • 6:30 p.m., 2 p.m., 1 p.m.
Tointon Stadium (2,331) • Manhattan, Kan.
Oklahoma State
The Cowboys are 28-13 after winning a pair of mid-week doubleheaders against Arkansas-Pine Bluff to extend their winning streak to six games. OSU outscored UAPB, 54-9, and looks to carry that momentum to Manhattan, Kan., where the Cowboys will battle Kansas State this weekend at Tointon Stadium. At 7-8, OSU is in sixth place in the Big 12 Conference standings and has won its last two league series. OSU is 141-38 all-time against Kansas State.
Kansas State
The Wildcats are 24-13-1 and have lost four of their last five games after a 7-6 setback against Missouri State in Kansas City on Wednesday. Kansas State is 4-10-1 in Big 12 play and is still in search of its first series win. The closest the Wildcats came to that was going 1-1-1 against Texas Tech in Lubbock.
Polls
Neither team is ranked in any of the four major polls.
The Coaches
OSU's Frank Anderson is 100-62 in his third season with the Cowboys, including a 5-1 all-time mark against K-State.
Brad Hill is 80-68-1 in his third season at Kansas State and 1-5 against the Cowboys.
On The Air
All OSU baseball games will be carried live by Stillwater Radio on KSPI 93.7 FM and 780 AM. Rex Holt, who is in his 24th season as the play-by-play voice of Cowboy baseball, will call the action. The radio broadcast can also be accessed via the internet at www.okstate.com (link is available under Audio Webcast). Those wishing to follow the game via live stats can also log in to www.okstate.com.
About Kansas State
The Wildcats won 17 of their first 18 games to start the season and were even nationally ranked in a few of the polls, but coach Brad Hill's squad has since cooled off. Kansas State is 24-13-1 overall and 4-10-1 in Big 12 Conference play, which puts them ninth in the conference standings.
Aluminum Assault
Frank Anderson has called his 2006 squad the best offensive team he's had since arriving in Stillwater, and the Cowboys are proving their head coach prophetic.
OSU leads the Big 12 Conference with a .333 batting average and has four players — Tyler Mach, Deik Scram, Keanon Simon and Corey Brown — among the top 20 in the league in batting average. Seven Cowboy regulars are hitting .300 or better, and Mach and Scram rank first and second in the Big 12 in batting average.
The Cowboys have scored a Big 12-best 343 runs in 41 games and have collected 491 hits — averages of 8.4 runs and 12 hits per game. The Cowboys have scored 10 or more runs 17 times and have had 16 games where they racked up at least 15 hits, including six contests in which they topped the 20-hit mark.
OSU leads the Big 12 with 183 extra-base hits, and the Cowboys top the conference in each of those categories with 62 home runs, 24 triples and 97 doubles.
