Oklahoma baseball: Sooners take two of three in Frisco College Classic
By Chip Rouse
![Dakota Harris snags a ground ball and throws to first putting out Scott Shaw as the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) baseball team plays Rider at L. Dale Mitchell Park on Feb. 24, 2023 in Norman, Okla. [Steve Sisney/For The Oklahoman]Ou Practice](https://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/upload/c_fill,w_1080,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto/shape%2Fcover%2Fsport%2F88edebfd711c495f821084f1c354e1b8cbae8024e0e97bf96ba83e0ab077b7f3.jpg "Dakota Harris snags a ground ball and throws to first putting out Scott Shaw as the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) baseball team plays Rider at L. Dale Mitchell Park on Feb. 24, 2023 in Norman, Okla. [Steve Sisney/For The Oklahoman]Ou Practice")
Junior shortstop Dakota Harris had a big weekend as the Oklahoma baseball team won two of three games at the Frisco (Texas) College Baseball Classic over the weekend.
Harris, a junior-college transfer from Polk County (Florida) State College, had 10 hits in 17 plate appearances and drove in six runs as the Sooners defeated California and Mississippi State before falling to Ohio State in the tournament finale on Sunday.
Oklahoma overcame a 3-0 deficit against California in its opening game of the tournament, scoring two times in the fourth inning and four more times in the fifth on the way to a 9-5 victory. Kale Davis started the game and went four innings, allowing three runs on six hits, striking out three and giving up a pair of walks. Carter Campbell came on in relief in the fifth, going the next four innings and earning the win. Harris had four hits in the game and Jackson Nicklaus had a couple, including a two-run blast in the fourth to get OU on the board.
The Sooners unloaded against Mississippi State for 15 runs on 18 hits on Saturday. Harris had a second-straight four-hit game and DH Rocco Garza-Gongora and catcher Easton Carmichael slugged two- and three-run home runs, respectively, as Oklahoma defeated the Bulldogs 15-9. James Hitt started the game for OU, one of four Sooner pitchers, with the win going to Jett Lodes, who pitched three innings in relief.
Oklahoma opened up a 3-0 lead in the opening inning against Ohio State on Sunday, but the Buckeyes struck for five runs in the third and added three more in both the fifth and seventh innings building an 11-5 advantage from which the Sooners weren’t able to recover. Harris had two more hits as did teammates Carmichael and Garza-Gongora, but it wasn’t enough offense as five OU pitchers yielded 16 hits and five bases on balls and Ohio State matched the Sooners two of three wins in Frisco.
The Sooners, now 6-5 for the season, are back home this week for two games with UNLV at L. Dale Mitchell Park on Tuesday and Wednesday before taking to the road over the weekend for a three-game series at Houston.