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5 days ago
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North Carolina beats Oklahoma in NCAA Tournament
North Carolina beats Oklahoma in NCAA Tournament Oklahoma's baseball season is now one loss away from ending. The Sooners fell Saturday to No. 5 overall seed North Carolina in the second round of the Chapel Hill Regional in the NCAA Tournament, 11-5. Oklahoma will next play Nebraska, a team OU beat on Friday in the first round, on Sunday in an elimination game on Sunday at 11 a.m. CT. North Carolina touched up Oklahoma ace Kyson Witherspoon for a season-high nine runs against. Witherspoon, a projected top-10 pick in this summer's MLB Draft, gave up six runs in the first inning as the Tar Heels batted around. UNC collected five straight hits, including three run-scoring singles and a home run, all with two outs to take command. Oklahoma's bats took too long to come around. The Sooners scored runs in each of the final four innings, but the hole was too large. OU had just three hits through the first five innings and trailed 9-0 before finally scoring. Sam Christiansen hit an RBI double and Jaxon Willits scored on a groundout for OU's first two runs. But North Carolina, which scored in five of the eight innings in which it came to the plate, responded with a run itself in the bottom of the inning. When OU scored again in the seventh, the Tar Heels matched them again, keeping any rallies at bay. Witherspoon finshed having worked just four innings, allowing the nine runs on 10 hits and three walks. Dasan Harris picked up three hits to lead the Sooners, while Trey Gambill, Easton Carmichael and Jaxon Willits each had two apiece. Oklahoma beat Nebraska on Friday, 7-4. Cade Crossland is expected to start Sunday's rematch.
USA Today
16-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
No. 16 Oklahoma Sooners beat Oklahoma State in Bedlam
The first post-Big 12 Bedlam baseball series went to the Crimson and Cream. No. 16 Oklahoma knocked off Oklahoma State on Tuesday night, 11-1, in Stillwater. And what the game may have lacked in pomp and circumstance, it made up for in revenge. The win was only Oklahoma's fourth in the series in the last 14 meetings. The Sooners saw 19 runners reach base on 11 hits en route to an easy win. A five-run first inning practically put things away immediately. And if the Cowboys had any ideas about a comeback, OU scored another five runs in the ninth to make it all but official. OU began with four straight singles off the bats of Trey Gambill, Jaxon Willits, Easton Carmichael and Sam Christiansen. The latter two knocks resulted in the first runs of the game. Dayton Tockey's fielder's choice would result in the fourth Sooners run of the inning and Kyle Branch capped the scoring with an RBI single. In the ninth, Willits singled home a run and Jason Walk planted a grand slam over the left-centerfield wall and closed the scoring for night. The top four hitters in the Oklahoma lineup combined to go 7 for 15 with four walks, four RBI and nine runs. Oklahoma State picked up two of its four hits in the fourth inning, but otherwise looked at sea. Colin Brueggemann led off the fourth with a solo home run off Reid Hensley and Beau Sylvester followed with a double. But Hensley retired the next two batters with a strikeout and on a flyout and limited the damage. OU has two nonconference games remaining alongside five Southeastern Conference series. Next up for the Sooners is a trip to another former Big 12 rival, Missouri. The Tigers are winless in SEC play this season.
