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Baseball
vs Texas Tech
University of Oklahoma Athletics
Friday, June 3
Fort Worth, Texas
2:00 PM
University of Oklahoma
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Dallas Baptist
Sooners Drop NCAA Opener to DBU in Extras
June 03, 2011 | Baseball
June 3, 2011
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FORT WORTH, Texas -- No. 14 Oklahoma entered Friday having won four straight openers in the NCAA tournament but suffered a 3-2 defeat in 10 innings to Dallas Baptist in the NCAA Fort Worth Regional.
The loss puts the Sooners into tomorrow's elimination game at 2 p.m. against the loser of tonight's contest between TCU and Oral Roberts.
“We understand what we have to do better in order to continue to play,” said head coach Sunny Golloway about the elimination game tomorrow. “We have a chance to do that. We have a talented team and we have plenty of pitching depth. We have a chance to stick around and play.”
OU fell behind early in the first inning, 1-0, but rallied to tie the game in fourth and take the lead in the seventh inning, an advantage it held with two outs in the ninth inning.
Austin Elkins drove in the game-tying run in the ninth before getting thrown out at second base to end the inning. In the 10th, Jason Krizan helped DBU regain the lead, 3-2, with an infield single that was hit deep in the hole to short.
Oklahoma's overall record dropped to 41-18 while Dallas Baptist improved to 40-17. The Patriots also won the earlier meeting this season with the Sooners, marking the first two-game winning streak in the 25 meetings for DBU (OU leads 21-4).
Friday's game was nearly a mirror image of the April 19 meeting in Norman. Dallas Baptist also won that game 3-2 behind the pitching performance of Brandon Williamson. The right-hander got the start again today and lasted nine innings with seven strikeouts.
Williamson (10-3) was paced to an early 1-0 lead as Dallas Baptist connected on a pair of doubles in the first, the second by Krizan, who leads the nation with 38.
In the bottom of the fifth, OU evened things up at one run apiece on Garrett Buechele's sacrifice fly.
Tyler Ogle gave the Sooners their first lead of the afternoon on a two-out single in the seventh that plated Cale Ellis, who was hit by a pitch with one out earlier in the frame. Ellis moved to second on Erik Ross' bunt single and scored the go ahead run two batters later.
After surrendering the run in the first inning, OU starter Michael Rocha settled down to retire 10 straight batters before exiting in the eighth inning to Dillon Overton.
Rocha struck out three and walked one in 7 1/3 innings with one run allowed on five hits. Overton entered in the eighth and was eventually charged with the game-tying run that scored with closer Ryan Duke on the mound.
Freshman Jordan John (4-2) took the loss for the Sooners after giving up one run on three hits in just 1/3 of an inning.
“Pitched well enough to win,” said Golloway on Rocha's performance. Those are games he won early in the year when we were swinging the bats. That's probably the hardest part.
“Michael won those games early in the year because we scored runs. We scored runs in the Big 12 against some really talented pitchers. There's no excuse. They pitched, they played well and they got timely hits. They deserved to win today; there's no doubt.”
Johnson and Carmichael Postgame vs North Carolina
Monday, June 02
BB Highlights: OU 9, UNC 5
Monday, June 02
Johnson, Dickerson, Willits Postgame vs North Carolina
Sunday, June 01
BB Highlights: OU 17, Nebraska 1
Sunday, June 01
