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Cowboys' Streak Comes To End In Finale
May 17, 2014 | Cowboy Baseball
May 17, 2014
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STILLWATER, Okla. – Oklahoma State had its 12-game winning streak snapped Saturday night as Oklahoma knocked off the No. 6 Cowboys, 8-1, in front of 8,709 fans at ONEOK Field.
With the loss, OSU concludes the regular season with a 41-14 record, while the Big 12 Conference champions finish 18-6 in league play. OU, which tallied four runs in the first inning and never looked back, improved to 28-27 and 8-16 in the league.
OSU will face the Sooners for the sixth time this season in the opening round of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship Wednesday at 4 p.m. at Oklahoma City's Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark. The Cowboys have beaten their rivals three times on the year.
“OU played good today. They did a nice job and came out in the first inning, got on us and made a couple of clutch hits; we made a mistake or two but they created an inning and jumped a four-spot on us,” said OSU head coach Josh Holliday. “That's a strong push early in a game, and we never could quite get anything going.
“We came out ready to play but didn't play well enough to win, and they did. That's a good, very capable ballclub we were playing, and it was just one of those days.”
The Sooners jumped on OSU starter Garrett Williams early, knocking him from the game in the first inning. OU tagged the freshman southpaw for four runs on two hits in just 2/3 of an inning, getting a two-out, two-RBI single from Anthony Hermelyn for its first runs and then taking advantage of an error by plating a pair of unearned runs on another two-RBI single, this one by Kolbey Carpenter, to go up, 4-0.
OU added to its lead in the fourth, scoring two runs on four hits off Blake Battenfield to push its lead to six.
The Cowboys plated their lone run in the fifth when Tim Arakawa, who led off the inning with a single, later scored on wild pitch to make the score 6-1.
OU got a two-run home run from Sheldon Neuse in the eighth to close out the scoring.
Holliday's club managed just five hits in the contest, all singles, with Arakawa's 2-for-3 effort leading the way.
Freshman Trey Cobb was one of six Cowboy pitchers on the day and had an impressive showing with four scoreless innings and four strikeouts.
