OU baseball sweeps Baylor, captures first Big 12 regular-season championship
The 17th-ranked OU baseball team captured the outright Big 12 regular-season championship with a series sweep of Baylor and Oklahoma State's cancellation of its game against Texas Tech Sunday due to weather.
The Sooners (32-17, 21-6) left no doubt on the weekend, outscoring Baylor 47-15 in three games, including a doubleheader sweep Saturday, capped by a 19-7 run-rule win in the finale. Oklahoma finished the game on an 18-2 run, including three six-run innings.
Three RBI doubles courtesy of Easton Carmichael, Michael Snyder and John Spikerman in the bottom of the second inning scored four runs. Spikerman led OU at the plate, finishing 4 for 5 with four RBIs and finishing Saturday 6 for 9 with nine RBIs and three extra-base hits.
“The accomplishment belongs to the players,” said Sooners head coach Skip Johnson. “You play one pitch at a time, that’s our mantra. We play one pitch at a time and one game at a time and that’s what we have to continue to do. That’s what we will continue to talk about, continue to work on and continue to practice.”
Right-handed pitcher Carson Atwood earned his first win of the season. He struck out a pair in 2 2/3 scoreless innings. OU enters its final week of the regular season and will travel to play Xavier Tuesday night and a three-game series against Cincinnati next weekend.
The title is the program’s first conference crown in the Big 12 era and 23rd conference title overall. OU’s last conference championship came in the Big Eight in 1995.
—Staff reports
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