Oklahoma State University Athletics
Cowboys Close Out Non-Conference Schedule Against Oral Roberts
May 16, 2006 | Cowboy Baseball
vs.
Oral Roberts (30-14)
May 16 • 6:30 p.m.
Allie P. Reynolds Stadium (4,000)
Oklahoma State
The Cowboys are 36-14 overall after a Bedlam series sweep of Oklahoma over the weekend. OSU has won 18 of its last 21 games and is coming off back-to-back shutout wins against the Sooners in a series in which the Cowboys outscored their in-state rival 15-2. OSU hosts Oral Roberts Tuesday night at Allie P. Reynolds Stadium, where the Cowboys are 25-3 this season. OSU is 32-25 all-time against ORU.
Oral Roberts
The Golden Eagles are 30-14 overall and continue to dominate their Mid-Continent Conference opponents. ORU sports a .323 team batting average and has won 20 of its last 23 games.
Last Meeting — April 4, 2006
The Golden Eagles topped OSU, 5-2, at Drillers Stadium in Tulsa. Three unearned runs in the third inning were the difference for ORU.
Polls
Oklahoma State is ranked No. 13 by Collegiate Baseball, 17th by Baseball America and 24th in both the USA Today/ESPN Coaches' Poll and the NCBWA poll. ORU is not ranked.
The Coaches
OSU's Frank Anderson is 108-63 in three seasons with the Cowboys, including a 1-1 all-time mark against Oral Roberts.
Rob Walton is 122-45 in his third season at Oral Roberts and 1-1 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, with Matt Davis providing color commentary. 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.
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 ranks third in the Big 12 Conference with a .322 batting average and has four players — Tyler Mach, Deik Scram, Corey Brown and Keanon Simon — among the top 20 in the league in batting average. Six Cowboy regulars are hitting .300 or better, and Mach and Scram rank first and fourth in the Big 12 in batting average.
The Cowboys have scored 390 runs in 50 games and have collected 574 hits — averages of 7.8 runs and 11.5 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 212 extra-base hits, and the Cowboys top the conference in home runs (73) and triples (28).
Clutch Cowboys
The Cowboys have shown a flair for the dramatic in 2006. OSU is 3-1 in extra-inning games, 10-1 in one-run games and has won several games with late- inning rallies or in their final at bat.
The trend started in OSU's season opener as the Cowboys scored five runs in the top of the 10th inning to beat South Alabama. In a win against Pepperdine in March, a home run in the top of the 10th gave OSU a 3-2 win. Against Texas-Arlington, the Cowboys scored five runs in the bottom of the eighth to lift them to an 8-3 win.
The Cowboys have done more of the same in conference play. They scored the winning runs in their final at bat in each of the three games of a sweep of Texas A&M. During its most recent stretch in league play, OSU has won 7-of-8 games and five of those have been one-run victories. In the finale against Kansas State, the Cowboys scored five runs in the top of the 10th to carry them to a series sweep. Then last weekend against Nebraska, OSU won the first two games of the series by scoring the winning run(s) in the bottom of the eighth.
