This is your Big 12 Recap for April 17th.
#3 Texas 14 Texas A&M 0
Junior right-hander Cole Green weaved a complete-game, one-hit shutout and Longhorns’ batters pounded out a season-high 18 hits as No. 4 Texas registered a 14-0 rout over the Texas A&M Aggies at Olsen Field on Saturday afternoon. The 14-run win was the Longhorns largest margin of victory since an 18-3 win on May 15, 1939.
Green was masterful in pitching his fourth career complete game and second career shutout. He scattered one hit and three walks while striking out four over 9.0 innings. It marked the first time the Horns had blanked the Aggies since a 3-0 win on May 17, 2003.
Texas batters were equally impressive with six batters recording multiple hits and four Horns racking up three hits. Kevin Keyes led the hit parade going 3-for-5 with two home runs and four RBI. Tant Shepherd went 3-for-4 with one double, two runs and four RBI. Cohl Walla went 3-for-5 with four runs, two doubles and one RBI. Cameron Rupp went 3-for-5 with two runs and two RBI. Jordan Etier and Brandon Loy added two runs and two hits apiece.
The Longhorns pounced early with a run in the top of the first inning. Leading off the frame, Walla reached on an infield single, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Loy and scored when Shepherd laced a single to leftfield as the Horns staked claim to a 1-0 lead. FULL STORY
#15 Oklahoma 12 Texas Tech 1
The No. 11 Sooners took a 1-0 lead in the series with Texas Tech after cruising to a 12-1 victory in game one on Saturday at Dan Law Field. Zach Neal (5-1) tossed the Sooners’ first complete game of the season with four hits allowed across nine innings.
The last Sooner to toss a complete game was Garrett Richards, a first round draft pick in 2009. He accomplished the feat on May 31, 2009 against Washington State in the NCAA Norman Regional. On Saturday, Neal faced the minimum amount of batters in five of the frames and struck out one batter opposite four walks.
Oklahoma snapped a two-game slide with the win and improved to 26-8 overall and 6-5 in Big 12 play. The Sooners have won eight straight series openers over Texas Tech (18-19, 6-7).
The OU offense scored in every inning but the second and fifth and was led by Max White (3-for-5, 3 RBI) and Garrett Buechele (2-for-4, 2 RBI). The Sooners had 12 hits on Saturday afternoon and have connected for 12 or more base knocks in each of the last four Big 12 games. FULL STORY
Texas Tech 7 #15 Oklahoma 3
Junior right-hander Bobby Doran held No. 11 Oklahoma to just one run on seven hits over seven innings while Nick Popescu drove in three runs to help lead Texas Tech to a 7-3 win over the Sooners and a split of a Big 12 doubleheader this evening at Dan Law Field.
The win vaults Tech back to .500 on the season as they stand at 19-19 overall and at 7-7 in Big 12 play. The loss drops Oklahoma to 26-9 on the year and to 6-6 in league action.
After mustering only one run on four hits in a 12-1 setback to the Sooners in the first game of today’s doubleheader, the Red Raiders wasted no time jumping on the board early in game two. Freshman second baseman Jamodrick McGruder led off the bottom of the first with a solo home run that fell just below the scoreboard in right-center field and that gave the Red Raiders a 1-0 lead, their first of this series.
In the fourth, Tech pushed its lead to 3-0 thanks to a fielding error by OU first baseman Cameron Seitzer and an RBI sacrifice fly from senior center fielder Taylor Ashby.
The Sooners scratched across their first run of the night in the top half of the fifth on a two-out RBI single from Garrett Buechele. Buechele’s single was his third of the game and cut the Tech lead to two runs. FULL STORY
#24 Kansas State 5 Baylor 2
Kyle Hunter threw no-hit baseball for six innings as No. 20 Kansas State used stellar pitching for the second straight day to defeat Baylor, 5-2, Saturday afternoon at Tointon Family Stadium.
Kansas State improved to 25-8 on the season, its best mark through 33 games in school history. The Cats started the 1976 and 2009 seasons 24-8, but lost the 33rd game of the year in both campaigns. Saturday’s win also moved the Wildcats’ conference record to 8-3, tying the best conference start in school history, and established K-State’s best record through 11 Big 12 games since the league began play in 1997.
Hunter was outstanding as he dominated through six innings in a duel against Baylor’s Logan Verrett. The sophomore left-hander, who recorded three strikeouts, retired the side in order four times. The Bears managed only two baserunners in the first six innings as Hunter walked a batter in each the second and sixth.
Baylor’s sixth-inning threat ended in spectacular fashion. Greg Glime, who had walked, was at second base following a sacrifice bunt when Landis Ware hit a line drive back at Hunter. The ball ricocheted off Hunter’s arm to shortstop Carter Jurica, who caught the ball in the air and stepped on second base for an inning-ending double play that kept the no-hit bid alive. FULL STORY
Kansas 7 Nebraska 4
Junior Brandon Macias went 2-for-3 with a three-run homer, while senior Cameron Selik pitched seven solid innings as Kansas evened its three-game series at Nebraska with a 7-4 triumph Saturday afternoon at Hawks Field at Haymarket Park.
The Jayhawks snap a six-game winless streak in conference play and improve to 21-14-1 overall and 4-6-1 in Big 12 play. The Huskers fall to 18-17 overall and 5-9 in the conference.
Kansas jumped out to an early lead on Macias’ three-run blast and held on despite a Nebraska rally in the ninth inning.
Macias, the team’s ninth-place hitter, gave KU a 3-0 lead in the second when he lined a 1-0 pitch over the fence in left field with Jake Marasco and James Stanfield on in front of him. It was the junior’s first homer of the season.
The offense was enough to support Selik, who looked sharp for the second straight week. The senior right-hander went seven innings, allowing one earned run on five hits with one walk and four strikeouts.
Selik allowed just two base hits through the first five innings, improving to 5-3 on the season. FULL STORY
Oklahoma State 10 Missouri 7
Oklahoma State picked up its first Big 12 Conference road win of the season Saturday as the Cowboys evened their series with Missouri with a 10-7 triumph at Taylor Stadium.
With the win, OSU improved to 20-13 overall and 4-7 in league play, while the Tigers fell to 19-15 and 4-7 in the Big 12.
Tyler Lyons picked up the win on the mound for the Cowboys and in doing so moved into the top 10 on OSU’s all-time wins list with the 22nd victory of his career. The senior southpaw worked 6.2 innings and racked up a season-high 11 strikeouts as he improved to 3-2 on the season.
Brad Propst came on in the ninth and earned his second save of the season, capping a day that also saw the junior blast the first home run of his OSU career.
Offensively OSU racked up 13 hits, four of those by Nico Rosthenhausler, who was also one of four Cowboys to collect multiple RBIs in the contest.
The Cowboys jumped out to an early lead as they rallied for three runs in the top of the first inning. After a two-out single by Rosthenhausler, Mark Ginther drilled a three-run home run, his team-leading seventh round tripper of the season, to give OSU a 3-0 lead. http://www.okstate.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/041710aaa.html
