Oklahoma State University Athletics
Cowboys Fall To Oral Roberts At Fayetteville Regional
June 04, 2006 | Cowboy Baseball
Top-seeded
With the loss, OSU (40-19) dropped into the loser's bracket of the double-elimination tourney and will face host and No. 2-seed
“I thought we played very hard tonight, and it was a tough loss,” said OSU head coach Frank Anderson. “I thought we pitched well for the most part. We could have executed better on some plays.
“We have to put this game behind us and get ready for (Sunday). We will regroup and go out there and lay it on the line.”
ORU first baseman Chad Rothford's two-RBI double off Oliver Odle in the bottom of the eighth inning was the difference on Saturday and capped a 3-for-4, five-RBI night for the Golden Eagle senior.
Starter Brae Wright suffered the loss for the Cowboys, dropping the southpaw to 8-4 on the season. The senior worked 7.1 innings and allowed five runs on seven hits.
OSU wasted no time taking the game's initial lead as Corey Brown led off the contest with a home run to right field off Chris Ashman. It was the sophomore's 12th homer of the season.
Brown's homer was the first of three for the Cowboys on the night, with the second coming in the second inning off the bat of Adam Carr. That blast, Carr's 11th of the season, was also a solo shot and gave OSU a 2-0 advantage.
ORU (40-14) would tie the game in the bottom of the fifth. Wright had held the Golden Eagles hitless until that inning, but Tim Torres led off the frame with a single and Rothford then tied the score at 2-2 with a two-run home run over the left-field wall.
In the back-and-forth affair, OSU took the lead back in the sixth. Keanon Simon led off the inning with a triple, and Carr brought him home with a single. Carr finished the contest 3-for-4 with a pair of RBIs.
The bottom of the inning saw the Golden Eagles again tie the score, as this time it was a Rothford double that scored Andy Bouchie to make the score 3-3.
OSU's final score came in the seventh, when Ty Wright hammered the first pitch he saw from Ashman over the wall in left field for a solo homer. Wright finished the contest 3-for-5.
Erik Crichton pitched a scoreless eighth inning to earn the win and improve to 4-0, while Sean Jarrett picked up his seventh save by keeping the Cowboys off the scoreboard in the ninth.
