Sooner Baseball: Opening Weekend in Big 12 hosts UCF for 3 games

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The Oklahoma Sooners Baseball Team (6-5) opens their Big 12 conference play this weekend against the Central Florida Golden Knights (9-1). The games are now going to be played on Friday at noon CT, Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at noon after a bit of rescheduling due to weather.

The series can be watched via SoonerVision on ESPN+ with and heard locally in Oklahoma on SportsTalk 1400 AM/99.3 FM or nationwide on The Varsity app. Live stats can be found at "OUStats.com".

Here are the batting and pitching lines for both teams.

Oklahoma:
.330 BA, .430 OB%, .517 Slug%, 84 runs in 11 games (7.64 R/G), 27 doubles, 5 triples and 11 HRs, SB 19 of 25, Field% of .962 with 15 errors
5.59 ERA, 96.2 Innings, 104 hits, 66 w/HB, 120 K, EBH allowed 16-2-14, 72 runs allowed (6.55 RA/G)

Central Florida:
.325 BA, .414 OB%, .478 Slug%, 84 runs in 10 games (8.40 R/G), 22 doubles, 2 triples, 9 HRs, SB 9 of 15, Field% of .985 with 5 errors
4.34 ERA, 87.0 Innings, 87 hits, 38 W/HB, 96 K, EBH allowed 16-3-10, 46 runs allowed (4.60 RA/G)

The two teams are pretty evenly matched it looks like from the stats, but UCF does look like they might have a pitching edge. OU's pitching has had 4 bad games where they gave up 51 runs while in the other 7 games they only allowed 21 runs. If the Sooners pitch well as they have in those 7 games, they should have a good shot at being successful this weekend.

Here is the Sooner staff writers article about the opening Big 12 series against UCF.

https://soonersports.com/news/2024/3/7/ ... lay-vs-ucf

Good luck to the Sooners this weekend as they open Big 12 play.

Boomer Sooner!

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Due to impending weather in Norman, Oklahoma baseball has rescheduled Friday's game for a noon CT start on Saturday.

Saturday will be a doubleheader with game times at noon and 4 p.m. CT. Sunday's finale will remain at noon CT.

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The Oklahoma Sooners Baseball Team picked up two big win in Saturday's doubleheader at John Crain Field ove Central Florida 4-3 and 11-3. The Sooners strong pitching allowing only 6 runs in the DH, keyd the victory. OU sent 9 pitchers to the hill on Saturday as 5 hurlers did not allow a run as no Sooners allowed more than 2 runs. Relievers picked up the two wins, Malachi Witherspoon in Game 1 and Grant Stevens in Game 2. Kyson Witherspoon picked up a Save in Game 1 also.

In the batter's box, the Sooners were 19 of 60 on the day with 6 EBH, all in the 2nd game, while picking up 11 walks and 15Ks. Nicklaus and Mackenzie had 2 hits in the first game and Madron and E Carmichael had two hits in Game 2. Snyder had 4 RBIs in Game 2.

Here is the Sooner staff wrtiers article about the Sooner two wins on Saturday.

https://soonersports.com/news/2024/3/9/ ... s-over-ucf

OU looks to sweep the Big 12 opening series on Sunday with first pitch at noon CT. The finale can be seen on ESPN+ and heard locally on SportsTalk 1400 AM/99.3 FM or nationwide on The Varsity app.

Good luck to the Sooners on Sunday.

Boomer Sooner!

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Here is the Sooner staff writers article about the 14-2 run-rule win by the Sooner Baseball Team over UCF on Sunday. The win completed a 3-game sweep of UCF over the weekend.

https://soonersports.com/news/2024/3/10 ... n-rule-win

"The really good part about the weekend was everybody picking each other up and having quality at-bats," said OU head coach Skip Johnson. "Somebody gets out, they pick that guy up and get a big hit. The same thing with the bullpen, which was really big. I thought Jamie (Hitt) was really good, pitched really well, we played good defense behind him and got big strikeouts when we needed them."

The Sooners are now 9-5 overall and 3-0 in conference play.

Here are the Big 12 Baseball Conference Standings:

https://big12sports.com/standings.aspx?path=baseball

As you will see, Oklahoma and Houston led the Big 12 after the first weekend with 3-0 records.

Oklahoma continues the homestead with Bedlam presented by Phillips 66 coming to Norman Tuesday night at 6:30 p.m. CT. The non-conference matchup with the Cowboys marks the first midweek Bedlam meeting at L. Dale Mitchell Park since 2018.

The game can be seen on ESPN+ and heard locally on SportsTalk 1400 AM/99.3 FM or nationwide on The Varsity app.

Single game tickets and mini-plan options are available via SoonerSports.com/tickets.

Good luck to the Sooners against OSU on Tuesday night.

Boomer Sooner!