Cowboy Baseball Opens Series With Win

Friday, March 26

Stillwater, OK

6:00 PM

Oklahoma State University

13-6-1, 0

Kansas State

13-8, 0

Kansas State

Oklahoma State

March 26, 2021 | Cowboy Baseball

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STILLWATER – Oklahoma State earned its first-ever Big 12 Conference win at O'Brate Stadium Friday night as the 13^th-ranked Cowboys posted a 14-5 victory in the series opener against Kansas State.

The win snapped a three-game losing streak for the Pokes, who improved to 13-6-1 overall and 2-2 in Big 12 play.

Parker Scott turned in another strong outing on the mound as he worked a career-high eight innings in improving to 5-1. The southpaw struck out eight and walked only one, while just three of the five runs he allowed were earned.

Offensively, Max Hewitt led the way as he went 3-for-4 and tied a career best with four RBIs. The Cowboys also got home runs from Nolan McLean, Brock Mathis and Christian Encarnacion-Strand and used a seven-run seventh inning to put the game away.

OSU jumped on K-State's Jordan Wicks early to take a lead it never surrendered as the Cowboys handed the Wildcats' ace his first loss of the season, dropping the lefty to 4-1.

Nolan McLean got things started in the first inning with a solo homer to right field, the freshman's sixth of the season, and later in the frame, Hewitt delivered a two-out, two-RBI single to make the score 3-0.

The Wildcats (13-8, 0-1) cut their deficit to one on a two-run home run off the bat of Chris Ceballos in the fourth, and OSU's lead remained 3-2 until the sixth.

In the bottom of that inning, a two-run homer by Mathis extended the Pokes' lead to 5-2, with the round tripper marking Mathis' sixth of the season.

OSU put the game away in the seventh, sending 10 batters to the plate and scoring seven runs on four hits while also taking advantage of a pair of K-State errors.

McLean got the scoring started with an RBI single, and Hewitt would add his second two-RBI single of the game to make the score 9-2. Later in the inning, Caeden Trenkle drove in a run before a two-out, two-RBI single off the bat of Alix Garcia capped the scoring.

After K-State scored three runs in the eighth, the Cowboys would plate their final two runs in the bottom of the inning on Encarnacion-Strand's team leading seventh homer of the season, a two-run job that cleared the scoreboard in left field.

The two teams return to action Saturday at 6 p.m.