Sooners' Season Ends in Fort Worth

June 4, 2011

Oral Roberts 7, Oklahoma 0
Highlights/Press Conf.

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

Pitching	IP	H	R	E	BB	SO
W - Bowen (6-2)	8.0	6	0	0	3	1
L - Smith (10-4)	0.2	3	3	3	1	0

Batting Leaders	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	HR
ORU - Baligod	5	1	2	1	0	0
OU - Ellison	5	0	3	0	0	0

NOTES
The Sooners are 76-67 in the NCAA Tournament with their first 0-2 showing in regional play since 2002 (Wichita Regional) ... OU had reached the regional final in each of the previous five NCAA appearances under head coach Sunny Golloway (2005, 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010) ... OU held the opposition to five or less runs in 22 of the last 23 games, before Saturday ... The last team to plate five or more runs on OU was Kansas on May 8, but the Sooners won that game 11-7 ... Cameron Seitzer's reaching base safely streak ended at 18 on Saturday ... He finished 2011 as OU's batting leader with a .358 clip ... Burch Smith recorded his shortest start of the season at 0.2 innings, his previous was 2.1 IP at Texas on April 30 ... Jordan John tied his longest relief outing with seven innings ... John also lasted seven innings out of the pen on May 25 against Kansas State in the Big 12 Championship ... OU leads the series with ORU, 32-29, and entered Saturday having won the last two meetings (2010 and 2004) ... The OU pitching staff finished with a 3.00 ERA while hitters combined for a .313 clip ... The Sooners have hit over .300 in each of the last six seasons and the team ERA was the lowest since 1978 (2.66).

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FORT WORTH, Texas -- No. 14 Oklahoma's season ended on Saturday with a 7-0 loss to Oral Roberts in the first elimination game of the NCAA Fort Worth Regional.

The loss drops Oklahoma to 41-19 on the season while Oral Roberts (37-21) will play Sunday at 2 p.m. against the loser of tonight's game between TCU and Dallas Baptist.

Its a frustrating end for us, there's no doubt,” said OU Head Coach Sunny Golloway. “We had some high expectations, we just didn't liv eup to them. We are looking forward to next year.”

OU's Burch Smith took the loss and dropped to 10-4 after allowing three runs off three hits and a walk in just 2/3 of an inning

In the other dugout, Drew Bowen lasted eight innings with six hits allowed and improved to 6-2. Bowen's strong outing gave the Golden Eagles their first postseason win over Oklahoma after dropping the opener in the 2010 NCAA Norman Regional and falling twice in the 2000 Oklahoma City Regional.

The Golden Eagles' offense wasted little time in giving Bowen a comfortable cushion to work with, plating three runs off Smith in the first and three more off Dillon Overton (two unearned) in the second.

Overall, three of ORU's seven runs were unearned thanks to a season-high six errors committed by the Sooners.

“I thought in the game today, Oral Roberts played really well,” added Golloway. “I thought their pitching was outstanding, but more so, once they got the lead, I thought their hitters really attacked and did a good job. They clearly deserve to win the ball game today and we wish them luck the rest of the way.”

In the second inning, Jordan John became the third Sooner pitcher used on the afternoon and he tossed the final seven innings. John allowed just one run, but it was unearned, off two hits and three walks, while also striking out five ORU batters.

'I just didn't have it," said Smith in the postgame press conference. "Jordan John did a great job of coming in and shutting them down for the rest of the game.”

Chris Ellison had three of the Sooners hits on the day while Ricky Eisenberg, Casey Johnson and Tyler Ogle each added a base knock.

"We didn't hit as well as we wanted to," said Ellison. "You have to put runs on the board."

The game was the final in a Sooner uniform for Johnson and Eisenberg, two of the 10 seniors on the team (Elliott Blair, Tyler Brady, Anthony Collazo, Ryan Duke, Cale Ellis, Michael Rocha, Tyson Seng and Bobby Shore).

The 2011 Major League Baseball draft will take place on Monday, June 6. Stay tuned to SoonerSports.com for more information.

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