Sooners Drop Big 12 Opener to KSU

May 25, 2011

Kansas State 5, Oklahoma 4
Box Score |

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
KSU	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	5	9	1
OU	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	8	1

Pitching	IP	H	R	E	BB	SO
W - Marshall (5-5)	1.0	1	0	0	0	0
L - John (4-1)	7.0	4	2	1	1	5
S - Allen (16)	1.0	0	0	0	2	1

Batting Leaders	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	HR
OU - Ogle	4	1	3	2	0	0
KSU - Kivett	5	0	4	2	0	0

NOTES
In the Sooners' last eight losses, six have been decided by one run ... OU is 4-7 in one-run games this year ... OU's streak of four-straight wins in the Big 12 tournament opener ended on Wednesday ... The Sooners and Wildcats have now split the only two meetings in the Big 12 Championship ... OU is 24-24 all-time in the Big 12 tournament ... Sophomore Drew Harrison and senior Ricky Eisenberg made their first career starts in the lineup at the leadoff and cleanup spots, respectively ... Tyler Ogle had his 16th multi-hit game of the season and fifth in the last 11 games.

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OKLAHOMA CITY -- The No. 12 Sooners dropped their first game of the 2011 Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship on Wednesday, 5-4, to Kansas State, the No. 6 seed, at Redhawks Field.

The loss drops OU, seeded third, into an elimination game tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. against Texas Tech (seventh seed). The Red Raiders fell 10-5 earlier today to Texas A&M.

Oklahoma entered Wednesday having won each of its last four conference tournament openers, but fell to 40-16 on the season after surrendering the go-ahead run in the ninth inning on Ross Kivett's single through the left side of the infield.

“It's another one-run loss, we've had a bunch of them this year,” said OU Head Coach Sunny Golloway. “The last two games now, finishing at Baylor (last weekend) with a walk-off in the ninth and now, we are the home team and basically they get the run in the ninth. We just haven't finished games.”

Jordan John (4-1) took the loss for OU despite his longest relief outing of the season. John entered the game in the second inning after starter Michael Rocha was chased with three unearned runs. John lasted seven innings and gave up two runs, but just one earned.

Kansas State improved to 35-21 after trailing 4-3 headed to the seventh inning. Evan Marshall improved to 5-5 with one inning of scoreless relief and James Allen posted his 16th save of the season, tied for the Big 12 lead.

Tied at four, the Sooners had their chances to take a lead after Tyler Ogle led off the eighth inning with a double down the right-field line. However, after moving to third on Garrett Buechele's groundout to first base, Ogle was thrown out at the plate on Ricky Eisenberg's fielder's choice.

The Wildcats jumped on top first with a trio of unearned runs in the second inning. The frame started with a leadoff double by Jason King, but OU starter Michael Rocha recorded two quick outs. However, a walk and an error by Caleb Bushyhead at short prolonged the inning and ended the evening early for Rocha with 1 2/3 innings.

In the bottom of the third inning, the Sooners countered to take their first lead. Tyler Ogle put OU on the board with a two-run single up the middle and a single by Cameron Seitzer evened things at three runs apiece. The go ahead run was scored on a potential double steal as Cameron Seitzer was tagged out on his way to second base but not before Ricky Eisenberg slid into home plate.

In the seventh, KSU tied the game at four runs apiece off a RBI groundout by Kent Urban off reliever Jordan John. The reliever lasted seven innings out of the bullpen, his longest relief outing of the season.

“Unfortunately for us Kansas State played really well,” added Golloway. “We'll come back tomorrow and fight hard. We understand the loser's bracket is going to be a long road. We are going to have the pitching to do it if we can just play well.”

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