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Oklahoma baseball: Sooners jump all over Liberty 16-3 in NCAA Regional

By Chip Rouse

HOUSTON, TEXAS - MARCH 04: Brett Squires #12 of the Oklahoma Sooners doubles in the ninth inning against the LSU Tigers during the Shriners Children's College Classic at Minute Maid Park on March 04, 2022 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images)
HOUSTON, TEXAS - MARCH 04: Brett Squires #12 of the Oklahoma Sooners doubles in the ninth inning against the LSU Tigers during the Shriners Children's College Classic at Minute Maid Park on March 04, 2022 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images) /
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Oklahoma baseball rode the momentum of winning 10 of its last 13 regular-season games into the postseason and continued its winning ways with a 16-3 win over the Liberty Flames in the NCAA Gainesville Regional on Friday.

The No. 2-seeded Sooners (38-20) trailed 3-0 after the first inning but roared back with a four-run second inning, a couple more runs in the fourth and then exploded for eight runs in the fifth inning, effectively putting the game on ice.

Kendall Pettis and John Spikerman hit back-to-back home runs in the second inning, keying a four-run uprising, and in the decisive fifth, the Sooners put together five singles, a hit batter, a walk and a grand-slam by Peyton Graham to extend the Oklahoma lead to 14-3.

The Sooners added a couple more insurance runs in the seventh to close out the scoring.

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Jake Bennett, the Sooners regular Friday starter, started on the mound for Oklahoma and went 5 2/3 innings, recording his eighth win of the season to go with three losses. He allowed three runs on nine hits, struck out seven and issued three walks. Three OU relievers finished out the remaining 3 1/3 innings, allowing no runs and just one hit.

Spikerman was the big stick for Oklahoma in its opening-game regional win, collecting four hits in five plate appearances and driving in four runs. Four other Sooners had two hits apiece (Graham, Tanner Tredaway, Jimmy Crooks and Wallace Clark).

The Sooners will next play the winner of the opening-round game between No. 1 seed and host team Florida and No. 4 seed Central Michigan. That game will be played a 6 p.m. Saturday at Condron Family Ballpark in Gainesville.

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