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#21 Oklahoma State (27-15-1) vs. Oklahoma (24-22)

Tues., May 11 / 7 p.m. • ONEOK Field (7,833) • Tulsa, Okla.

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About Oklahoma State
   • For the fifth time this season, OSU will take on Bedlam-rival Oklahoma as the two will square off Tuesday night in a non-conference game at Tulsa's ONEOK Field. Following the midweek contest, the Cowboys will return to Big 12 Conference play for the final time this season as they host Baylor in a weekend series at O'Brate Stadium. The Pokes are 27-15-1 on the season and fifth in the Big 12 standings with a 10-11 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 309-172-2 at his alma mater.

About Oklahoma
   • OU is 24-22 on the season and coming off a series win at West Virginia.
   • The Sooners are hitting .292 as a team, while their pitching staff owns a 5.37 ERA.
   • Skip Johnson is in his fourth season as OU's head coach and owns a career record of 109-74.

Cowboys vs. Sooners
   Oklahoma State owns a 177-155 record in the all-time series against Oklahoma, including a 25-9 mark under Josh Holliday. The Cowboys have split four games with the Sooners this season, winning a non-conference game in Stillwater on March 30 and taking the Bedlam Series finale in Norman after OU won the first two games.

In The Polls
   OSU has appeared in the national polls each of the first 13 weeks of the season and is currently ranked 21st by Collegiate Baseball.
   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.

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. 20 in the latest official NCAA RPI, while Oklahoma is 68th.

No-No
   Justin Campbell joined an elite group by tossing a no-hitter against Kansas on May 8.
   Campbell's historic day marked only the third nine-inning no-hitter by an OSU pitcher in the 110-year history of the program and the first since 1968. It was the ninth no-hitter by an individual in program history, with five of those coming in seven-inning games and one in a five-inning contest.
   Campbell needed just 99 pitches to secure the no-hitter as he struck out 11 and improved to 5-1 with his first-career shutout. He issued just one walk, which came with one out in the eighth inning and was the only thing that kept him from a perfect game.
   The no-hitter was the first for OSU since 1993 when four Cowboy hurlers combined for the feat. The Pokes also had one other combined no-hitter, that coming in a seven-inning game in 1989.
   Campbell's no-hitter was the 19th in Big 12 history and the 12th by an individual.

The Cyclist
   Christian Encarnacion-Strand joined rare company when he hit for the cycle against UAPB on April 21 as he became just the fifth OSU player in the Big 12 Conference-era to achieve the feat and first since 2017.
   Encarnacion-Strand went 5-for-5 in the game against the Golden Lions. He homered in his first at-bat before reeling off a double, single, another homer and a triple in his final AB in the seventh inning.
   The Cowboy third baseman joins Josh Fields (2003), Zach Johnson (2011), J.R. Davis (2016) and Garrett Benge (2017) as OSU players to hit for the cycle in the Big 12-era (1997-present). The feat has been achieved 22 times in conference history.

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.

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 43 games for the Cowboys at third base, has smacked a team-high 15 home runs and also tops the Pokes with 57 RBIs. He is second in the NCAA this season with 129 total bases and ranks 10th nationally in homers, 12th in RBIs and 13th in slugging percentage at .737.
   With Encarnacion-Strand leading the way, the Cowboys have tallied 60 home runs to rank 19th in the NCAA this season, and 14 different players have gone deep. Nolan McLean and Brock Mathis rank second on OSU with seven round trippers.

Mound Menaces
   • OSU's seven shutouts this season ranks fourth in the NCAA.
   • OSU's pitching staff ranks second in the Big 12 and 13th nationally with 462 strikeouts (in 379.0 innings), and their 11.0 strikeouts per nine innings leads the league and is ninth in the NCAA.
   • Parker Scott ranks third in the Big 12 with a 2.20 ERA, while Justin Campbell is sixth at 2.39.
   • 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 seven 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
   • Week 12 (5/10) - Justin Campbell, Big 12 Pitcher of the Week

Showering April With Hits
   Christian Encarnacion-Strand was named the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association National Player of the Month for April following a scorching month at the plate as he hit .458 (27-for-59) in 15 games while tallying seven home runs, seven doubles, two triples and 30 RBIs.
   Encarnacion-Strand led the Big 12 in batting average, RBIs and slugging percentage (1.000) in April, ranked second in homers and triples and was third in total bases (59) and on-base percentage (.542).
   The hot hitting saw Encarnacion-Strand reach base safely in all 15 games, and he also continued a hitting streak that reached 19 games, the longest by an OSU player since 2013 and the ninth longest in program history.
   Encarnacion-Strand also made history on April 21 against UAPB as he became only the fifth OSU player in the Big 12 era to hit for the cycle and the first since 2017 as he went 5-for-5 with a pair of homers.
   Following his torrid April, Encarnacion-Strand ranks in the top five nationally in home runs (15) and total bases (121) and is in the top 10 in RBIs (52) and slugging percentage (.761).

Cowboy Baseball Faces OU Again, This Time In Tulsa

Game Notes (PDF)

#21 Oklahoma State (27-15-1) vs. Oklahoma (24-22)

Tues., May 11 / 7 p.m. • ONEOK Field (7,833) • Tulsa, Okla.

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Players Mentioned

Justin Campbell

Kale Davis

Christian Encarnacion-Strand

Brock Mathis

Nolan McLean

Parker Scott

Brett Standlee

Mitchell Stone

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Cowboy Baseball Faces OU Again, This Time In Tulsa

Game Notes (PDF)

#21 Oklahoma State (27-15-1) vs. Oklahoma (24-22)

Tues., May 11 / 7 p.m. • ONEOK Field (7,833) • Tulsa, Okla.

Next Event

Players Mentioned

Justin Campbell

Kale Davis

Christian Encarnacion-Strand

Brock Mathis

Nolan McLean

Parker Scott

Brett Standlee

Mitchell Stone

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