#10 Texas 3 #24 Baylor 1
WACO, Texas — Taylor Jungmann was overpowering in his first career Big 12 start, Cameron Rupp launched his sixth home run of the season and Austin Wood joined the 20-20 club as the No. 8 Texas Longhorns completed as sweep of the No. 17 Baylor Bears with a 3-1 at Baylor Ballpark.
Jungmann (5-3) fanned 10 Bears and allowed just one run on three hits and one walk over 6.0 innings. The freshman right-hander started his procession of strikeouts with two in the first inning and added two in the second, one in the third and two each in the fourth and fifth frames. He whiffed the last batter he faced with two runners on in the sixth to get out of a jam.
After Austin Dicharry put a scoreless seventh inning in the books for the Horns, Wood wrapped up the game with two shutout innings. The lefty became the second player in school history to log 20 wins and 20 saves in a career, joining J. Brent Cox. The southpaw allowed just one hit and struck out one batter.
Rupp spearheaded Texas offense, going 2-for-3 at the plate with one home run and two RBI.
The Longhorns drew first blood in the top of the second inning. With one out, Cameron Rupp deposited a 2-1 offering from Baylor starter Willie Kempf over the fence in leftfield for his second dinger of the series.
#11 Oklahoma 10 Kansas 9
NORMAN, Okla. — Casey Johnson came off the bench and connected for an RBI double in the 10th inning as No. 9 Oklahoma avoided a three-game sweep at the hands of Kansas with a 10-9 win.
Ryan Duke bounced back from a blown save on Tuesday and pitched three solid innings in relief to nail down the win. Duke was nearly perfect in his second longest outing of the year, allowing just one walk while striking out two Jayhawks to improve to 3-1. The shutout baseball paved the way for OU’s offense to rally from a 9-7 deficit after the top of the seventh inning.
“The way our guys fought back, even after we gave up the lead 9-7, to come back and win, I thought was really huge,” said OU Head Coach Sunny Golloway. “It showed a lot of mental toughness and it wasn’t easy by any stretch.”
Missouri 12 Nebraska 9
LINCOLN, Neb.- – Missouri pounded out three home runs and senior Steve Gray drove in four as the Tigers finished off a three-game sweep of Nebraska with a 12-9 win on Sunday in Lincoln, Neb. Gray was 2-for-5 and scored twice, in addition to his four RBI. Seniors Kyle Mach and Ryan Lollis each added a pair of hits to extend their hitting streaks to nine and seven games, respectively. Senior Austin Holt was 2-for-4 with his first career home run.
The Tigers (28-21, 14-10 Big 12) have won seven-straight games and have been victorious in 11 of their last 13. They have swept back-to-back Big 12 series and have won eight of their last nine conference games.
The sweep in Lincoln is the first for Missouri since a two-game sweep in 1996 and is its first three-game sweep on the road against the Huskers since 1963. Mizzou has won six-straight against NU, as it also swept last year’s series between the two teams.
Each team put runs on the board in the second inning as Nebraska answered a three-run top of the second by Mizzou with five runs in the bottom half of the inning.
