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Oklahoma (20-19, 4-8) vs. #18 Oklahoma State (24-12-1, 7-8)

Fri., April 30 / 6 p.m. • O'Brate Stadium (2,700) • Stillwater, Okla.
Sat., May 1 / 3 p.m. • Sun., May 2 / 4 p.m. • L. Dale Mitchell Park (655) • Norman, Okla.

Video/TV: Fri. - ESPN+ (Dave Hunziker & Tom Holliday)
Sat. - Bally Sports Oklahoma (Toby Rowland & George Frazier)
Sun. - ESPNU (Chris Cotter & Mike Rooney)
Radio: KSPI 93.7 FM (Rex Holt & Matt Davis)
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Live Stats: okstate.statbroadcast.com
Twitter In-Game Updates: @OSUBaseball

About Oklahoma State
   • OSU is back in Big 12 Conference action this weekend against Oklahoma in the Bedlam Series. The Cowboys will host Friday's opener at O'Brate Stadium before the series shifts to Norman for the final two games. OSU is 24-12-1 on the season and tied for fourth in the Big 12 standings with a 7-8 league mark.
   • The Cowboys are coming off a 13-5 showing in 2020, a season that was cut short in early March due to the COVID-19 global pandemic.
   • OSU returns the majority of its 2020 roster in 2021, along with a talented group of newcomers in a recruiting class ranked in the top 25 nationally. Seven position players that started at least 13 games a year ago are back, and the Cowboys' entire starting weekend rotation also returns.
   • The 2021 season is OSU's ninth under head coach Josh Holliday, who is 308-170-2 at his alma mater.

About Oklahoma
   • OU is 20-19 on the season and eighth in the Big 12 standings with a 4-8 conference mark.
   • The Sooners are hitting .296 as a team, while their pitching staff owns a league-high 5.46 ERA.
   • Skip Johnson is in his fourth season as OU's head coach and owns a career record of 105-71.
   • OU's starting pitching rotation vs. the Cowboys is expected to be:
   Friday: RHP Wyatt Olds — 2-4 with a 6.00 ERA in 10 appearances (nine starts); 61 K, 20 BB in 48.0 IP
   Saturday: LHP Jake Bennett — In 10 starts is 3-3 with a 6.60 ERA; 51 K, 10 BB in 43.2 IP
   Sunday: LHP Braden Carmichael — 5-1 with a 3.97 ERA in 10 outings (nine starts); 43 K, 16 BB in 47.2 IP

Cowboys vs. Sooners
   Oklahoma State owns a 176-153 record in the all-time series against Oklahoma, including a 24-7 mark under Josh Holliday. The Cowboys won a 5-4 non-conference affair in walk-off fashion in Stillwater on March 30.

In The Polls
   OSU has appeared in the national polls each of the first 11 weeks of the season and is currently ranked as high as 18th by Collegiate Baseball. The Cowboys are also ranked 19th by the NCBWA and 20th in this week's USA Today coaches poll.
   The Cowboys spent three weeks of the 2020 season in the national polls and peaked at No. 16 in the Baseball America rankings.
   From March 4, 2013 to April 3, 2017, OSU was ranked in at least one national poll, a streak of 77 consecutive weeks. During that time, the Cowboys spent 18 weeks in the Top 10 and were ranked as high as No. 3 (by the NCBWA in 2014). They have finished in the top 10 in the final national polls twice in the last six seasons — 10th in 2014 and fourth in 2016.

High Five
Oklahoma State entered the 2021 season as the fifth-winningest team in NCAA baseball history in terms of winning percentage at .661.

2,657 & Counting
   Oklahoma State began the 2021 season 14th on the NCAA's all-time Division I wins list with 2,670. The Cowboys are one of only 25 programs in Division I history to reach 2,600 victories, and of those, only four — Florida State, Miami (Fla.), Florida and Fresno State — have played fewer seasons than OSU's 109.

Baseball In Their Orange Blood
   Baseball — and Oklahoma State — is a family affair for Josh Holliday.
   Josh's father, Tom, served as an OSU assistant coach for 19 years then took over as the Cowboys' head coach from 1997-2003, leading the program to a College World Series appearance in 1999 (and coaching Josh in his final three college seasons). Tom spent four decades as a collegiate coach and was inducted into the OSU Cowboy Baseball Hall of Fame in 2016.
   Josh's younger brother, Matt, was a Major League Baseball standout from 2004-18 who was named to seven All-Star teams in 15 career seasons with the Rockies, Athletics, Cardinals and Yankees.
   Matt joined the OSU staff as a volunteer assistant in July 2019.
   Josh's uncle, Dave Holliday, was an OSU assistant coach from 1981-87 and has since held a variety of roles in Major League Baseball, including his current spot as a professional scout for the Atlanta Braves.

Building A Winner
   In eight seasons as head coach at his alma mater, Josh Holliday has built a sparkling resume. Among the highlights:
   • The Cowboys earned seven NCAA Regional berths, advanced to three Super Regionals and played in the College World Series for the first time since Holliday was a senior for the Cowboys in 1999.
   • OSU finished first or second in the Big 12 Conference standings five times, claiming the program's first-ever regular season Big 12 title in 2014 and finishing second in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2018.
   • The Cowboys finished in the top 10 in the national rankings in 2014 (10th) and 2016 (4th) after ending the 2013 season ranked as high as No. 19. In 2019, they were ranked as high as 11th in the final polls.
   • The Pokes have added three Big 12 championships to the program's total. In 2014, OSU won its first-ever Big 12 Conference regular season championship, and the 2017 club captured the second Big 12 Championship title in program history. The Cowboys also claimed the conference tourney title in 2019.
   • OSU hosted NCAA Regionals in 2014 and 2015 and was the top-seeded team both times. The Cowboys were also awarded a No. 9 national seed and host and top-seed status of the NCAA Oklahoma City Regional in 2019.
   • Holliday has coached 62 All-Big 12 performers, seven All-Americans, two Big 12 Pitcher of the Year honorees, a Big 12 Player of the Year and a Big 12 Newcomer of the Year.

300 Club
   Josh Holliday recorded his 300th career win as a head coach when he led his alma mater to a 5-4 win over Bedlam-rival Oklahoma on March 30 in Stillwater.
   Holliday is one of four coaches to reach the 300-win milestone with the Cowboys, joining Gary Ward (953), Frank Anderson (329) and Toby Greene (318).

Checking The RPI
   OSU comes in at No. 16 in the latest official NCAA RPI, while Oklahoma is 95th.

Preseason Picks
   OSU was picked to finish fourth in the Big 12 standings in a preseason vote of the league's head coaches, who also named three Cowboys to the Preseason All-Big 12 Team.
   The coaches tabbed infielders Max Hewitt and Hueston Morrill as all-conference picks, while Justin Campbell was named to the team as a utility player.
   Hewitt finished second in the Big 12 with a .410 batting average in 2020 and had career highs in extra-base hits and RBIs despite the shortened season, while Morrill has started 75 games on the infield over the last two seasons and was an honorable mention All-Big 12 performer as a freshman.
   Campbell was a standout on the mound and at the plate as a freshman last season, hitting .414 with a pair of three-RBI games in limited duty, while ranking second on the team with 22 strikeouts as a part of OSU's weekend rotation.

Glimpse Of A Bright Future
   Two Cowboys earned Freshman All-American status following the shortened 2020 season, with outfielder Caeden Trenkle and two-way standout Justin Campbell collecting honors from Collegiate Baseball.
   In 18 games, Trenkle hit .333 with three home runs, 16 RBIs and a team-high .623 slugging percentage, and he tied for the NCAA lead with four triples while ranking third nationally with five sacrifice bunts.
   Campbell starred both on the mound and at the plate. Offensively, he appeared in 10 games and hit .414 with a homer and seven RBIs. He had a pair of three-RBI games and hit safely in five of his last six games in the lineup.
   On the bump, the right-handed Campbell was in the weekend starting rotation the entire season and went 1-2 with a 4.43 ERA in four starts while recording 22 strikeouts in 20 1/3 innings. In his final outing of the season, he tossed eight shutout innings against BYU and racked up nine strikeouts.

Back On The Bump
   Parker Scott is back for a fifth season with the Cowboys, and the southpaw is expected to lead OSU's starting rotation. He is ranked No. 69 on D1Baseball.com's Preseason Power Rankings: Top 150 Starting Pitchers for college baseball in 2021.
   Scott struggled with injuries that cost him the majority of his first two seasons in Stillwater but showed what he could do when healthy over the last two seasons.
   Scott pitched in six games as a freshman in 2017, starting twice, before an arm injury ended his season. He suffered another setback when he underwent Tommy John Surgery that November that caused him to redshirt in 2018.
   After two years between appearances (March 12, 2017-March 10, 2019), Scott made 15 appearances in 2019, eight as a starter, and go 3-1 with a 2.18 ERA and 51 strikeouts in 45 1/3 innings. He led the Big 12 in conference-only games with a 1.11 ERA while racking up 31 strikeouts in 24 1/3 innings of work.
   In four starts in 2020, Scott was 3-1 with a 2.16 ERA and tallied 31 strikeouts in 25 innings.
   Scott is 6-1 with a 2.20 ERA and 52 strikeouts in 49.0 innings in his nine outings this season. His six wins ranks second in the Big 12 and 20th nationally.

Four Sure
   Four of the nine starting pitchers OSU has used this season — Parker Scott, Justin Wrobleski, Bryce Osmond and Justin Campbell — have combined to go 15-7 with a 3.36 ERA and 210 strikeouts in 179.0 innings.
   Both Wrobleski and Campbell have turned in career outings. Campbell struck out 14 in seven shutout innings at Oral Roberts, which came on the heels of a six-inning, 13-strikeout effort at Missouri State, and Wrobleski racked up 13 punchouts and allowed only one hit in seven scoreless frames vs. Grand Canyon.

They're Watching You
   Justin Campbell has been named to a pair of national award watch lists in 2021. The Cowboys' two-way standout is one of 45 players on the midseason watch list for USA Baseball's Golden Spikes Award, which is given to the top amateur player in the country, and he is also one of 17 players on the College Baseball Foundation's John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Year Watch List.

Fear The Beard
   Regardless of his role, Brett Standlee has solidified himself as one of OSU's top arms in 2021.
   In a team-high 18 appearances, the bearded one is 4-1 with three saves and a 2.25 ERA. In 24.0 innings, the right-hander has posted 40 strikeouts and allowed just six earned runs.
   Standlee's first 17 appearances were out of the bullpen as OSU's closer, but he was forced into a starting role in the series finale against Texas due to injuries. He delivered with a six-inning gem in which he struck out 10 on 117 pitches, both career highs, while allowing just two runs on three hits to get the win.
   Forced to redshirt the 2018 season after being declared academically ineligible, Standlee made his collegiate debut in 2019 and served roles as both a starter and reliever en route to earning a spot on the Big 12 All-Freshman Team. He appeared in 19 games, 12 as a starter, and was 3-2 with a save and a 4.26 ERA while ranking second on the team in strikeouts (55) and innings pitched (72 2/3).
   In the Big 12 Championship title game, Standlee had a memorable performance as he worked a career-high seven innings and allowed just one run while striking out three against West Virginia to earn the win in OSU's 5-2 victory.
   Last season, Standlee was again used as a starter and reliever and went 1-0 with a save, a 1.83 ERA and 17 strikeouts in 19 2/3 innings over a team-high seven appearances. He earned a win in his start at No. 8 Arizona State, tying career highs in innings pitched (7.0) and strikeouts (8) in OSU's 2-1 victory.

Bombs Away
   In less than two full seasons at Yavapai JC, where he played in a wood bat league, Christian Encarnacion-Strand hit 33 home runs in 81 games, and he's continued that power surge in his first season at OSU.
   Encarnacion-Strand, who has started all 37 games for the Cowboys at third base, has smacked a team-high 15 home runs and also tops the Pokes with 51 RBIs. He leads the NCAA this season with 117 total bases and ranks second nationally in homers, third in RBIs and seventh in slugging percentage at .801.
   With Encarnacion-Strand leading the way, the Cowboys have tallied 51 home runs to rank 15th in the NCAA this season, and 11 different players have gone deep. Nolan McLean and Brock Mathis rank second on OSU with seven round trippers.

Mound Menaces
   • OSU's six shutouts this season rank third in the NCAA behind Louisiana Tech and Gonzaga's seven.
   • OSU's pitching staff leads the Big 12 and ranks 12th nationally with 402 strikeouts, and their 11.2 strikeouts per nine innings leads the conference and is seventh in the NCAA. The Pokes have racked up 402 strikeouts in 323.2 innings.
   • Parker Scott ranks fifth in the Big 12 with a 2.20 ERA, while Justin Campbell is sixth at 2.70.
   • Campbell recorded a streak of 28 2/3 innings without allowing an earned run that stretched from the fourth inning of his first start vs. LR on Feb. 24 to the sixth inning of his start vs. WVU on April 2.
   • Campbell posted a career-high 14 strikeouts in seven scoreless innings against Oral Roberts on March 9. The 14 strikeouts were just two shy of the OSU single-game record held by Derek Brandow.
   • In that game against the Golden Eagles, Campbell teamed with Mitchell Stone, Kale Davis and Brett Standlee to strike out 19 batters. The 19 strikeouts are one shy of the OSU and Big 12 record for strikeouts in a nine-inning game.

Big 12's Best
   The Cowboys have collected weekly awards from the Big 12 Conference six times this season.
   • Week 2 (3/1) - Brock Mathis, Big 12 Co-Newcomer of the Week
   • Week 3 (3/8) - Christian Encarnacion-Strand, Big 12 Co-Newcomer of the Week
   • Week 4 (3/15) - Justin Campbell, Big 12 Pitcher of the Week & Big 12 Co-Newcomer of the Week
   • Week 5 (3/22) - Parker Scott, Big 12 Pitcher of the Week
   • Week 7 (4/5) - Christian Encarnacion-Strand, Big 12 Player of the Week
     • Week 10 (4/26) - Christian Encarnacion-Strand, Big 12 Player of the Week

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Game Notes (PDF)

Oklahoma (20-19, 4-8) vs. #18 Oklahoma State (24-12-1, 7-8)

Fri., April 30 / 6 p.m. • O'Brate Stadium (2,700) • Stillwater, Okla.
Sat., May 1 / 3 p.m. • Sun., May 2 / 4 p.m. • L. Dale Mitchell Park (655) • Norman, Okla.

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Players Mentioned

Justin Campbell

Kale Davis

Christian Encarnacion-Strand

Max Hewitt

Brock Mathis

Nolan McLean

Hueston Morrill

Bryce Osmond

Parker Scott

Brett Standlee

Mitchell Stone

Caeden Trenkle

Justin Wrobleski

Oklahoma State University Athletics

Bedlam Series Up Next For Cowboy Baseball

Game Notes (PDF)

Oklahoma (20-19, 4-8) vs. #18 Oklahoma State (24-12-1, 7-8)

Fri., April 30 / 6 p.m. • O'Brate Stadium (2,700) • Stillwater, Okla. Sat., May 1 / 3 p.m. • Sun., May 2 / 4 p.m. • L. Dale Mitchell Park (655) • Norman, Okla.

Next Event

Players Mentioned

Justin Campbell

Kale Davis

Christian Encarnacion-Strand

Max Hewitt

Brock Mathis

Nolan McLean

Hueston Morrill

Bryce Osmond

Parker Scott

Brett Standlee

Mitchell Stone

Caeden Trenkle

Justin Wrobleski

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Fri., April 30 / 6 p.m. • O'Brate Stadium (2,700) • Stillwater, Okla.
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