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With a pair of impressive wins out of league play, the Oral Roberts baseball team posed a different kind of out-of-SEC challenge for Oklahoma on Tuesday.
Challenge plenty met.
The No. 9 Sooners dispatched ORU with relative ease, winning on the road at Chapman Park in Tulsa, 11-2. The win lifted OU to 17-1 in nonconference play and 21-3 on the season.
Oral Roberts had beaten current No. 17 Dallas Baptist earlier in the year. The Sooners' lone nonconference loss came at the hands of DBU on March 4 in a Tuesday road game. No such disappointment occurred this time, as Oklahoma limited the Golden Eagles to just three base hits.
ORU jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning. But Oklahoma picked up a run in the second and a run in the third before breaking things open in the fourth. Trey Gambill hit a two-run home run after the Sooners broke the tie on an ORU wild pitch, and then Kyle Branch knocked in another run with a double. Oklahoma tacked on another four runs in the seventh inning, including two on a pair of errors on the same play by the Golden Eagles.
Jacob Gholston struggled in his start, though. He didn't record a single out before being pulled after just three batters and four wild pitches. Reid Hensley picked up him with five innings of relief in which he allowed just a single walk and no hits.
OU is back at SEC play on the weekend when it travels to Alabama for a three-game set with the Crimson Tide.
This article originally appeared on Sooners Wire: Oklahoma baseball takes down Oral Roberts
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Challenge plenty met.
The No. 9 Sooners dispatched ORU with relative ease, winning on the road at Chapman Park in Tulsa, 11-2. The win lifted OU to 17-1 in nonconference play and 21-3 on the season.
Oral Roberts had beaten current No. 17 Dallas Baptist earlier in the year. The Sooners' lone nonconference loss came at the hands of DBU on March 4 in a Tuesday road game. No such disappointment occurred this time, as Oklahoma limited the Golden Eagles to just three base hits.
ORU jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning. But Oklahoma picked up a run in the second and a run in the third before breaking things open in the fourth. Trey Gambill hit a two-run home run after the Sooners broke the tie on an ORU wild pitch, and then Kyle Branch knocked in another run with a double. Oklahoma tacked on another four runs in the seventh inning, including two on a pair of errors on the same play by the Golden Eagles.
Jacob Gholston struggled in his start, though. He didn't record a single out before being pulled after just three batters and four wild pitches. Reid Hensley picked up him with five innings of relief in which he allowed just a single walk and no hits.
OU is back at SEC play on the weekend when it travels to Alabama for a three-game set with the Crimson Tide.
This article originally appeared on Sooners Wire: Oklahoma baseball takes down Oral Roberts
Continue reading...
