#3 Cameron Rupp-Stuart Villanueva BRYAN COLLEGE STATION EAGLE
in Big 12 actions last night, Texas had to go into extra innings to take game 1 from A&M in College Station, In the Bedlam Series OU took game 1 from Oklahoma State, In the Border War-Missouri outlast Kansas, Texas Tech helped its cause by taking the first game with Kansas State, and Nebraska won the Non-Conference opener with Cal-State Bakersfield.
#8 Texas 11 #16 Texas A&M 9
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Russell Moldenhauer broke an 8-8 tie with a single in the top of the 10th inning and Austin Dicharry earned his first career save to lead the No. 8 Texas Longhorns to an 11-9 win over the No. 14 Texas A&M Aggies in the first game of the State Farm Lone Star Showdown at Olsen Field on Friday evening.
With the score tied 8-8, Cameron Rupp, who went 3-for-5 with three runs scored on the evening, led off the top of the 10th with a single through the left side. Tim Maitland was hit by a pitch to put the go-ahead run in scoring position. Moldenhauer, who pinch-hit in the eighth inning and remained in the game as designated hitter, singled up the middle to plate Rupp. Maitland added an insurance run when he scored on a wild pitch and Jordan Etier, who pinch-ran for Moldenhauer, touched home when Connor Rowe grounded into a double play to give the Horns an 11-8 lead.
Austin Wood, who entered the game in the seventh, remained in to pitch the bottom of the 10th inning, but yielded a lead-off triple by Kyle Colligan and a single by Joe Patterson to narrow the gap to 11-9. Dicharry entered the game and induced a fly out by Caleb Shofner, swinging strikeout by pinch-hitter Brett Parsons and a looking strikeout by Kevin Gonzalez to close the game.
The game almost failed to go extra innings when Texas A&M rallied from an 8-7 deficit in the bottom of the eighth. With one out, David Alleman drew a walk and was replaced at first by pinch-runner Scott Arthur. Arthur stole second base and with two outs, Adam Smith launched a ball to the gap in left centerfield. Texas centerfielder Connor Rowe was unable to track the ball down and the carom off the wall got past him allowing Arthur to score. Smith was feeling lucky and went for the inside-the-park home run but Rupp, UT’s catcher didn’t allow him to touch home with a perfect block of the plate, ending the inning with the score knotted at 8-8.
#17 Oklahoma 5 vs Oklahoma State 2
TULSA, Okla. — J.T. Wise and Bryant Hernandez each homered behind Michael Rocha’s six shutout innings of relief, as No. 17 OU won 5-2 over Oklahoma State in game one of the Bedlam Series, presented by the Oklahoman and Oklahoma Farm Bureau Insurance, in front of 10,757 fans at Drillers Stadium on Friday.
OU improved to 36-15 overall and 13-9 in Big 12 play while OSU dropped to 29-20 and 6-14.
The win was the Sooners’ first in Tulsa since 2000. Despite the recent struggles, OU leads 10-9 over Oklahoma State in games played at Drillers’ Stadium, which hosted its final Bedlam game before moving downtown into a new facility next year.
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Missouri 8 #21 Kansas 5
COLUMBIA, Mo.- – Junior Greg Folgia had his second two-home run game of the season, including an inside the park homer in the sixth inning, to lead Missouri to an 8-5 win over Kansas on Friday night at Taylor Stadium. The Tigers have won seven-straight Big 12 games and nine of their last 10.
Folgia put the Tigers on the board with a solo shot in the bottom of the first inning. Missouri made it a 2-0 lead after a run in the second, before Kansas’ Buck Afenir connected on a three-run home run in the third inning to put the Jayhawks in front.
Mizzou (29-22, 15-10 Big 12) responded by scoring runs in each of its next three at-bats, including a solo home run by junior Aaron Senne in the fifth. In the sixth inning, Folgia drove in three on an inside the park home run, as he hit a ball off the wall in centerfield. The KU centerfielder, Jason Brunansky, was injured trying to make the play and Folgia rounded the bases as the ball got away from Brunansky.
With the two homers on Friday, Folgia increased his team lead to 11 on the year. He drove in five runs on the night, adding a sacrifice fly in the eighth and has a team-best 57 RBI. It was Folgia’s third five-RBI game of the season.
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Texas Tech 6 at #21 Kansas State 0
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Junior right-hander Nate Karns tossed 5 1/3 scoreless innings to help lead Texas Tech to a 6-0 shutout of No. 10 Kansas State on Friday evening in front of 3,651 fans at Tointon Family Stadium. The win marked Tech’s first Friday night road win in the Big 12 since the 2006 season.
Texas Tech improves to 22-27 on the year and to 10-12 in league action while Kansas State falls to 37-12-1 and to 12-8-1 in the Big 12. The Red Raiders have moved into seventh place in the league standings as the Baylor Bears have the weekend off.
The Red Raiders came out swinging in the first inning with a solo run thanks to an RBI single by senior first baseman Chris Richburg. Richburg’s RBI single followed back-to-back one-out singles by Michael Reed and Joey Kenworthy.
Tech tacked on single runs in the third and fifth to push its lead to 3-0 thanks in part to three hits by Reed. Reed led off both the third and the fifth with doubles and ended up scoring on both.
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Nebraska 9 Cal State Bakersfield 6
Lincoln – Mike Nesseth overcame a rocky start to earn his first win since March 18, as Nebraska topped CSU Bakersfield, 9-6, Friday night at Hawks Field.
Nesseth (4-4) allowed five runs over the first two innings, but settled down and held the Roadrunners in check over his final 5.1 innings of work. The sophomore right-hander fanned seven and allowed just three hits after the second in his longest outing since March 6, as he retired nine of the final 11 hitters he faced in a 7.1 inning stint.
“It ended up being a great outing because he went through some adversity and fought back and settled down in the last few innings,” Anderson said. “He’s fighting himself sometimes, but when he does find it, he’s very, very good.”
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