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Cowboys Fall To Texas, 3-0
May 22, 2014 | Cowboy Baseball
May 22, 2014
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OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma State was shut out for the third time this season Thursday night as fifth-seeded Texas knocked off the top-seeded Cowboys, 3-0, in the Big 12 Baseball Championship at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark.
With the loss, No. 7 OSU falls to 42-15 on the season and into the tourney loser's bracket, where the Cowboys will face Oklahoma Friday at 7 p.m. The Pokes are 4-2 against their Bedlam rival this season and opened the tourney with a 13-4 win over the Sooners on Wednesday.
Jon Perrin was the tough-luck loser against Texas despite allowing just one run on five hits in 6 1/3 innings. The junior right-hander struck out four and walked two as he fell to 7-4 on the season.
The Cowboys managed just five hits against the Texas pitching duo of Dillon Peters and Parker French. Aaron Cornell was 2-for-2 with a pair of singles to lead OSU.
“Tough ball game,” said OSU head coach Josh Holliday. “I thought that both teams pitched extremely well, and I thought that Texas played tremendous defense. Their middle infielders gobbled up some really difficult plays… They had a clutch two-out hit to take the lead early, and we played it tight all the way to the eighth.
“It was one of those nights where you have good at bats against two really good pitchers. When really good pitchers make pitches and you take good at bats, sometimes they win the battle. I thought we were locked in. Dillon Peters is a good one, along with Parker French. When we played them earlier in the year that was their number one and two starters. We faced two high-end pitchers, and they played excellent defense and we didn't do enough on offense to get the win. It's nothing to hang our heads about. We'll go back, rest up and come back tomorrow ready to go.”
The 19th-ranked Longhorns (38-16) got on the scoreboard early, getting a two-out RBI single from Kacy Clemens in the bottom of the second inning to take a 1-0 advantage.
OSU had several scoring chances in the contest but finished with five runners left on base.
Gage Green led off the game with a single and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Donnie Walton, a sacrifice that was OSU's school-record 75th of the season. Walton also tied his own single-season record with 18 and tied the OSU career record of 36, previously set by Fred Ocasio. However, Green was stranded on second following the bunt.
In the fifth, it was Cornell with a leadoff single followed by a Tim Arakawa sacrifice bunt. However, Peters struck out the next two Cowboys to get out of the jam.
OSU also left runners on second in the sixth and seventh innings. Zach Fish doubled in the sixth with two outs but was stranded, and in the seventh it was Arakawa with a two-out walk and a steal of second before being left on.
The Longhorns added a pair of insurance runs in the eighth. With the bases loaded, Clemens struck again with a two-RBI infield single off Blake Battenfield to push UT's advantage to 3-0.
Peters improved to 7-3 after allowing four hits in five innings, while French allowed only one hit over the final four frames for his first save.
