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Cowboys Drop Second Game To Kansas
April 11, 2009 | Cowboy Baseball
With the loss, OSU drops to 21-13 overall and 4-7 in Big 12 Conference play. The Cowboys have lost three of their four Big 12 series this season.
Tyler Blandford suffered his first loss of the season for the Cowboys to fall to 6-1. The junior right hander worked 4.1 innings and allowed eight runs, six of them earned, on six hits. He struck out seven and walked three.
Blandford's outing tied his shortest of the season and snapped his streak of six consecutive starts with a win.
Tyrone Hambly and Micheal Dabbs each went 3-for-5 for the Cowboys and combined for six of OSU's 10 hits. Hambly had a double, home run and four RBIs in the contest.
Kansas (22-12, 6-5) took an early 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first when Buck Afenir delivered a two-run home run off Blandford with two outs.
OSU battled back and tied the score in the third. Following a single by Eric Walker and a double by Dabbs that put Cowboys on second and third with one out, Hambly brought home both runners with a double to left field to make the score 2-2.
The Jayhawks answered in the bottom of the inning with another two-out rally to regain their two-run lead. Brian Heere got things started with a solo home run, and after Afenir walked and advanced to second on a wild pitch, Tony Thompson brought home KU's fourth run with a single.
With KU still leading 4-2 in the fifth, Blandford got into more trouble as a hit batter and back-to-back singles loaded the bases with one out. Thompson then walked to plate the Jayhawks' fifth run and knock Blandford out of the game.
With the bases still full, Jeff Breedlove came out of the Cowboy bullpen and induced a ground ball off the bat of the bat of Casey Lytle. But OSU second baseman Tom Belza committed an error on the play, allowing two runs to score and keeping the inning alive.
The Cowboys got back into the scoring column in the sixth. Neil Medchill led off the frame with a walk, and Dean Green followed with a single. After a fly out, Belza delivered an RBI single through the right side to make the score 8-3, but KU escaped further damage when Jared Womack grounded into an inning-ending double play.
OSU's final runs came on Hambly's two-run home run in the ninth. The blast was the Cowboy third baseman's sixth homer of the season.
KU starter T.J. Walz improved to 4-0 with a 6.2 inning effort in which he recorded a career-high 10 strikeouts.
Sunday's series finale is scheduled for a 1 p.m. start.
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