Oklahoma State University Athletics
Cowboys Host Texas Tech On Final Weekend Of Regular Season
May 18, 2006 | Cowboy Baseball
vs.
Texas Tech (31-20-1, 9-13-1)
May 19-21 • 7 p.m., 2 p.m., 1 p.m.
Allie P. Reynolds Stadium (4,000)
Oklahoma State
The Cowboys are 36-15 overall after dropping a mid-week game to Oral Roberts on Tuesday. OSU enters the final weekend of the regular season with a 15-9 record in Big 12 play, which puts the Cowboys third in the league standings. The Cowboys have won five consecutive Big 12 series and will host Texas Tech to close out the regular season. OSU is 18-19 all-time against Texas Tech.
Texas Tech
The Red Raiders are 31-20-1 overall and are in seventh place in the conference standings at 9-13-1 in Big 12 play. Texas Tech is coming off a sweep of Missouri, which was the Red Raiders second conference series win of the season and extended their winning streak to four games.
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 108-64 in three seasons with the Cowboys, including a 2-4 all-time mark against Texas Tech.
Larry Hays is 1,456-797-4 in 36 seasons as a head coach. He is 761-416-3 in 20 seasons at Texas Tech and 16-14 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.
Saturday's game will be televised in by Cox Sports, with John Harris (play-by-play) and Matt Miller (color) providing the talent.
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 .319 batting average and has three players — Tyler Mach, Deik Scram and Corey Brown — among the top 15 in the league in batting average. Six Cowboy regulars are hitting .300 or better, and Mach and Scram rank first and sixth in the Big 12 in batting average.
The Cowboys have scored 392 runs in 51 games and have collected 578 hits — averages of 7.7 runs and 11.3 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 213 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.
