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Oklahoma baseball: Sooners never trail in a 6-3 win at West Virginia to even series

By Chip Rouse

Oklahoma pitcher Braden Carmichael (27) pitches in the fourth inning of the first game in the Longhorn's double header against Oklahoma on Saturday, April 22, 2023.Texas Baseball V Oklahoma Sooners Sed 410
Oklahoma pitcher Braden Carmichael (27) pitches in the fourth inning of the first game in the Longhorn's double header against Oklahoma on Saturday, April 22, 2023.Texas Baseball V Oklahoma Sooners Sed 410 /
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Oklahoma baseball evened it conference mark at 10-10 with a 6-3 win over Big 12 leader West Virginia in Game 2 of their series on Saturday.

The two teams will go at one another Morgantown her in the rubber game of the series on Sunday afternoon with the Sooners seeking to win their third straight Big 12 series and fourth of the season. Also at stake are bragging rights for having won a series against two Big 12 teams leading the conference at the time the series with OU was played.

A pair of two-run homers by Bryce Madron and Dakota Harris coupled with another strong outing by Sooner left-handed starter Braden Carmichael fueled the Oklahoma win on Saturday.

Madron got the Sooners on the board right out of the gate with a long homer to right field, his team leading 11th of the season, following a leadoff single by Anthony Mackenzie to put OU up 2-0 early. The Mountaineers (35-12, 12-5) manufactured run in the bottom of the first inning on a walk, a wild pitch and a single to cut into the Sooner advantage.

Both teams scored twice in the sixth inning, OU’s runs coming on a long ball by Harris as the Sooners maintained the one-run difference. Oklahoma added a pair of insurance runs in the top half of the eighth off of WVU reliever Carlson Reed on run-scoring singles by Kendall Pettis and Sebastian Orduno.

West Virginia put runners on base in both the eighth and ninth innings off of Will Carsten, who came on in relief of the starter Carmichael to get the final out in the seventh inning, but both were left stranded as Carsten worked out of trouble.

Carmichael worked 6.2 innings, allowing three runs on seven hits, striking out six and walking one batter. The redshirt-senior southpaw was credited with the win and improved to 5-0.

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