They cut it a bit close, but the Oklahoma Sooners will move on in the Big 12 Baseball Championship after defeating the West Virginia Mountaineers 6-4 in their first game of the double elimination tournament. OU will play Texas Tech. The Red Raiders are coming off of a 5-3 win over the Kansas State Wildcats.
The Sooners took the lead early in second inning. After John Spikerman opened things up with an RBI single, the very next batter Peyton Graham hit a grand slam to give the Sooners a five run lead.
Oklahoma pitching shutout the Mountaineers for seven innings tonight with WVU struggling to get any sustained momentum. They finally got on the board in the top of the eighth on a wild pitch from Oklahoma pitcher Chazz Martinez.
A pair of home runs in the ninth brought the Mountaineers within two runs of a tie ballgame, but Trevin Michael was able to strikeout West Virginia’s Viktor Scott to finish the ballgame and get the Sooners the win.
The Mountaineers are now one loss away from elimination and will play Kansas State before the Sooners get their date with Texas Tech. Meanwhile, TCU will play the Texas Longhorns after they beat Baylor and Oklahoma State respectively.
Oklahoma State and Baylor are now both a loss away from elimination and will play each other in round two.
OU needs more from their bullpen if they want to take down Texas Tech tomorrow and move on. Oklahoma recently won their regular season series against the Red Raiders in Lubbock.
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