LAST WEEK RESULTS: 2-2
L 4-14 neutral vs. No. 7 Texas Tech (Amarillo, Texas)
L 1-7 road at West Virginia (Morgantown, W.Va.)
W 8-7 (11) road at West Virginia (Morgantown, W.Va.)
W 9-1 road at West Virginia (Morgantown, W.Va.)
SCHEDULE THIS WEEK:
Tuesday, May 11 vs. Oklahoma State – 7 p.m. (Tulsa, Okla.) – ESPN2
Friday, May 14 vs. No. 7 Texas Tech – 6:30 p.m. (Norman, Okla.) – SS.TV
Saturday, May 15 vs. No. 7 Texas Tech – 2 p.m. (Norman, Okla.) – Bally Sports OK
Sunday, May 16 vs. No. 7 Texas Tech – 2 p.m. (Norman, Okla.) – SS.TV
KEY NOTES OF THE WEEK:
- Brett Squires homered in each of the three games this weekend. His two-out, two-run homer in the seventh inning on Saturday gave OU a 4-3 lead. He also led off the fifth inning with a homer on Friday night and hit a leadoff homer in the second inning on Sunday.
- Oklahoma won two of three games at West Virginia over the weekend. The Sooners rebounded from a 7-1 defeat Friday night to win 8-7 (11 innings) and 9-1 in a doubleheader on Saturday to clinch their first true road series win of the season (OU won two of three at the Round Rock Classic in February).
- Braden Carmichael was named the Big 12 Newcomer of the Week after pitching 7.0 no-hit innings in the series finale on Saturday night. He struck out a season-high 10 batters and walked four, and retired 13 straight from the third through seventh innings.
- Jace Bohrofen batted .545 last week (played in three of the four games and started two), going 6 for 11 at the plate with a double, a triple and three runs scored. He went 3 for 5 with a triple and two runs in Tuesday's contest against Texas Tech in Amarillo, and 2 for 2 with a double and a run in the first game of the doubleheader at West Virginia on Saturday.
- Conor McKenna batted .467 (7 for 15) in four games last week, including a .400 average (4 for 10) in the series at West Virginia. He notched five RBIs, two home runs, a double, three walks and four runs scored on the week. He homered on Tuesday against Tech and in game one on Saturday. He drove in three runs and scored three runs at WVU.
- Justin Mitchell went 3 for 9 with three walks in the West Virginia series, including a 2 for 3 performance with two RBIs in game one on Saturday. He has hit in four of his last five contests and is batting .333 (5 for 15) in his last five games.
- Jimmy Crooks hit the game-winning home run in the top of the 11th inning in the first game of Saturday's doubleheader as Oklahoma evened the series at WVU. The two-run opposite-field blast was his ninth homer of the season, and his first hit of the series.
- Peyton Graham homered in both games of the doubleheader on Saturday, and one was inside the park. He hit the second pitch of the day over the left field wall, then banged an inside-the-park homer off the center field wall. Graham, Crooks and McKenna each have hit nine home runs this season.
- For the second straight week Jason Ruffcorn turned in a career-long outing. On Saturday, he entered to begin the second inning and pitched 7.1 frames, striking out seven batters. Last week, he punched out 10 batters over 6.2 relief innings to earn the victory, and was named Big 12 Pitcher of the Week (May 3).
- Brandon Zaragoza has played more games in an Oklahoma baseball uniform than any other player in program history. The super senior from Moore, Okla., broke the school record by playing in his 240th and 241st games on Saturday. The previous record of 239 games was held by Max White (2010-13).
- Zaragoza has started in 239 career contests, also the most in program history (no official program records for games started exists), including 228 starts in a row, dating back to the 2017 season. He ranks second in program history with 598 career assists (record is 728 by Rich Hills [1992-95]), fourth with 852 career at bats, seventh with 120 career walks and 19th with 224 career hits.
- Tyler Hardman continues to lead the nation in hits (74). He ranks seventh in total bases (121), 15th in hits per game (1.61), 25th in batting average (.394), 45th in OBP (.484), 64th in slugging (.644), 70th in runs (43) and 74th in RBIs (43).
- Hardman has notched multiple hits in 24 of OU's 46 games this season and has at least one hit in 40 contests (a hit in all but six games).
- McKenna leads the Sooners with 14 multiple RBI games while Hardman has 12 and Crooks has 10 multiple RBI contests.
- Oklahoma has outscored opponents in the last two-thirds of games (innings four through nine) this season by a total of 216 to 152. In the first three innings of games, OU has been outscored by opponents 120 to 115 (allowed 2.6 runs in first three innings of games vs. 3.3 across last six innings).
- Oklahoma ranks fifth nationally in hits (467), 12th in walks (238), 14th in doubles (94), 17th in runs (334), 26th in scoring (7.3 runs per game), 28th in strikeouts per nine innings (10.3), 33rd in batting average (.292) and doubles per game (2.12), 34th in OBP (.393), 36th in home runs (53) and 38th in slugging (.463).
- OU ranks second in the Big 12 in hits, runs, doubled per game and sacrifice flies (22), and third in batting average, doubled, strikeouts per nine innings and strikeout-to-walk ratio (2.42).
- Thirty-four percent of Oklahoma's hits (157 of 467) have gone for extra bases. The Sooners have totaled 94 doubles, 10 triples and 53 home runs in 46 games, an average of 3.4 extra base hits per contest.
- Oklahoma's 53 home runs this season are the most by a Sooners squad since the 2010 team hit 105 homers. OU has totaled 50 home runs only one other time since 2010 (51 in 2017).
- Pledged contributions for every home run that OU hits this season (53 through 46 games) will go towards the stadium renovation project. For more information or to make a pledge, visit TheSoonerClub.com/LaunchPad.
