Oklahoma baseball continued its unbeaten ways 11 games into the new season, sweeping a three-game weekend series over visiting CSUN. It's the Sooners' best start since going 16-0 to begin the 2011 season.
After posting 9-0 and 10-2 wins in the first two games of the series at L. Dale Mitchell Park in Norman, the Sooners overcame a 2-0 early deficit into the sixth inning and perhaps their biggest scare so far this season, scoring the final three runs in the game to preserve their perfect record and complete the weekend sweep of the CSUN Matadors.
The Sooners got great pitching performances from the Witherspoon brothers in taking the first two games in the series. Kyson Witherspoon pitched six innings in Friday's series opener, allowing no runs on five hits and striking out seven in OU's shutout win.
Malachi took the mound on Saturday and had an equally terrific outing, going five innings and giving up just one run on six hits and fanning four in the Sooners' 10-2 win.
Three OU players had a multiple-hit game in the Sooners' 9-0 win on Friday and five more collected multiple hits as part of OU's 15-hit explosion on Saturday, including a 4-4 outing by junior college transfer Dayton Tockey.
Hits were much harder to come by for the Oklahoma hitters on Sunday. The Sooners produced just six hits, and only one for extra bases, in the 3-2 win on Sunday, their second-fewest of the season so far.
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Oklahoma will play No. 21 Dallas Baptist (8-3) in Dallas on Tuesday before returning home for a weekend series at L. Dale Mitchell Park against Sam Houston.
Five more observations from Oklahoma's baseball weekend
- Sunday's 3-2 victory was Oklahoma's third one-run win of the season. OU beat Minnesota 5-4 and then-No. 2 Virginia 5-4 two weekends ago in the Round Rock Classic in Texas.
- Oklahoma's three weekend wins and four for the week were good enough to advance the Sooners three spots this week in the latest D1 Baseball rankings to No. 13.
- The Sooners clubbed just one home run in the this weekend's series, and it came from the first OU batter in Friday's opener. Sophomore center fielder Jason Walk hit his first of the season,
and fourth of his career, to deep right-center leading off the first inning on Friday.
- Oklahoma outscored CSUN 22-4 and added 28 strikeout by the Sooner hurlers.
- No Oklahoma opponent has scored more than five runs in a game this season. That's a program record through 19 games to start a season.