Oklahoma State University Athletics
Cowboys Resume Big 12 Play At Missouri
April 15, 2010 | Cowboy Baseball
April 15, 2010
Oklahoma State (19-12, 3-6) at Missouri (18-14, 3-6)
April 16-18 • Columbia, Mo.
Taylor Stadium
Fri. - 6 p.m./Sat. - 3 p.m./Sun. - 1 p.m.
Oklahoma State
Oklahoma State is 19-12 and coming off a 7-6 win over 11th-ranked Oklahoma in 10 innings Tuesday at Allie P. Reynolds Stadium. The Cowboys return to Big 12 Conference action this weekend at Missouri, with both teams entering the series with 3-6 league records.
The Cowboys lead the all-time series against Missouri by a 124-64 count, and OSU took 2-of-3 against the Tigers last season in Stillwater.
OSU head coach Frank Anderson is in his seventh season at the helm of the Cowboys and has led the club to 252 wins in his career. The Pokes are coming off a season in which they finished 34-24 and advanced to the finals of the NCAA Clemson Regional. With that showing, OSU became the only Big 12 Conference team to advance to a Regional championship round each of the last four seasons.
OSU is third in the Big 12 with a .323 team batting average, with five of the Cowboy regulars in the starting lineup hitting .300 or better, and the pitching staff sports a collective 5.11 ERA.
About Missouri
Missouri is 18-14 overall and tied with OSU in the league standings with a 3-6 mark. The Tigers are hitting .304 as a team, led by Aaron Senne's Big 12-best .457 average, and their pitching staff sports a combined 4.77 ERA.
Up Next For The Cowboys
Following the weekend series in Columbia, the Cowboys will take the road again for another Big 12 series as they travel to Austin to take on Texas next weekend.
On The Air & The Web
All OSU baseball games are carried live by Stillwater Radio and will air on KSPI 93.7 FM or 780 AM. Rex Holt, who is in his 28th season with Cowboy baseball (15th as the play-by-play voice), will call the action, with Matt “Chief” Davis providing color commentary.
Radio broadcasts and live stats can also be accessed via www.okstate.com (links are available under Schedule/Results).
Cowboys In The Clutch
OSU is hitting .399 with runners in scoring position this season. The Cowboys also sport a .297 average with two outs and have collected 77 two-out RBIs.
Catch Them If You Can
OSU ranks second in the Big 12 this season with 62 stolen bases, a number which long ago surpassed its total from '09 (45).
Davis Duren and Dusty Harvard both rank among the top five in the league in steals.
The Cowboys are on their way to becoming the first OSU team to top 100 steals since the 1999 team had 117. OSU's highest stolen base total since '99 is 90, which came in 2002.
From 1981-94, OSU topped the century mark in steals 11 times, including a school-record 190 thefts in 1985.
Lyons Climbing The Charts
Tyler Lyons is poised to finish his OSU career with his name scattered throughout the Cowboys' pitching record book.
A native of Lubbock, Texas, Lyons is 21-8 in his OSU career, one win shy of moving into the top 10 on the Cowboys' career list.
Lyons already ranks seventh on OSU's career innings pitched list with 274.1 and is 10th on OSU's career strikeouts list with 230. Lyons' has 36 career starts, which ranks 10th on the Cowboys' career list.
The southpaw is also on the verge of cracking the top 10 on the Cowboys' career list for appearances as his 59 are six shy of that mark.
K Is For Keeling
Cowboy junior Thomas Keeling continues to rack up strikeouts at an impressive rate.
Keeling leads OSU with 62 strikeouts and has had at least nine Ks in six of his seven appearances this season. With 62 Ks in 41.1 innings, Keeling is averaging 13.5 strikeouts per nine innings, which ranks third nationally.
Keeling was named the Big 12 Conference pitcher of the week on April 5 after he tossed 7.1 scoreless innings, allowed only four hits and racked up 11 strikeouts to earn his first-ever Big 12 win in the opener vs. Nebraska.
Keeling's strikeout total ranks fifth in the Big 12, and each of the pitchers above him has at least one more outing than the Cowboy.
As a redshirt sophomore last season, Keeling recorded 73 strikeouts in just 51.0 innings. His 12.88 strikeouts per nine innings would have ranked fourth nationally had he had three more innings of work to qualify for the NCAA minimum.
In 94.0 career innings, Keeling has racked up 137 strikeouts. He had a career-high 12 Ks last season at Arizona.
The Thief
Junior second baseman Davis Duren leads the Big 12 with 25 stolen bases, a total which also ranks in the top 10 nationally. Against Oklahoma Christian, Duren swiped four bags, the most by a Cowboy since 2004 and one shy of the school's single-game record.
Last season, Duren was 14-of-15 on stolen base attempts to lead the Cowboys.
From his leadoff spot in the lineup, Duren is leads the Cowboys with 35 RBIs and ranks second with a .361 batting average.
Duren's recent 14-game hitting streak is tied for the fourth longest in the Big 12 this season.
Vote For Cowboy Greats
To commemorate the final year of the College World Series being played in Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium in 2010, the NCAA is creating a CWS Legends Team, and six former OSU Cowboys are nominated for the team.
The Legends Team will represent those student-athletes who had the best CWS performances in the 60 years the CWS has been played at Rosenblatt Stadium. OSU's nominees for the team are third baseman Robin Ventura (1986-87), catcher Mike Day (1982-85), designated hitter Pete Incaviglia (1983-85), outfielder Wayne Weatherly (1966-68), pitcher Tom Borland (1954-55) and shortstop Danny Thompson (1968).
Fans can vote online for players they think should be selected as members of the CWS Legends team at www.ncaa.com.
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