Oklahoma ended the 2025 regular season losing two of three to Texas in the first meeting of the two bitter rivals as members of the snake pit that is SEC baseball.
The No. 3 Longhorns (42-11, 22-8) broke open a close game tied 1-1 through six innings in a deciding third game of the rivalry series on Saturday, scoring eight unanswered runs over the final three innings to cruise to a 9-1 win and the series victory.
Texas takes two of the three from OU in SEC baseball series
Saturday's game was halted by rain in the seventh inning, resulting in a two-hour weather delay. Texas had pushed across three runs and had the bases loaded with two outs before the game was stopped in the seventh.
When the game resumed, OU reliever Jason Bodin got the final out with a strikeout, leaving the sacks filled. At that point, the Longhorn lead was 4-1, but it proved to be only the beginning of the end with Texas scoring two more times in the eighth and finishing off the rout with three in the ninth.
Oklahoma's lone run on Saturday came on a fourth-inning home run by Easton Carmichael. It was the junior catcher's fourth four-bagger in the past eight games and his 14th of the season.
OU starting pitcher Malachi Witherspoon (3-8) was charged with the loss, going 6.1 innings and giving up four runs on five hits while striking out 10 Longhorn hitters.
It was the second consecutive series loss for the Sooners, who fell out of the top-25 after being swept by Kentucky last week. Oklahoma ended its first regular season in the SEC splitting its 10 conference series. The Sooners were 3-2 in SEC series at L. Dale Mitchell Park.
The Oklahoma bats were held silent in two of the three games against the Longhorns, combining for just seven hits in the two losses. The Sooners managed just five hits in a 7-4 loss in the series opener on Thursday and were limited to only two hits by Texas pitching in the 9-1 loss on Saturday.
Game 1 on Thursday was knotted 4-4 after eight innings, with the Sooners scoring the tying run in the home half of the eighth on a one-out single by Jaxon Willits. Texas broke the tie in the ninth on a three-run home-run blast by Max Belyeu off OU closer Dylan Crooks (2-1), who suffered his first loss of the season.
In the middle game of the series on Friday night, it was the Sooners breaking up a tie game late when Dawson Willis launched a two-run go-ahead home run in the eighth inning to enable Oklahoma to pull out the victory. A crowd of 5,177 was in attendance at L. Dale Mitchell Park for Friday's game, a new single-game record.
Oklahoma (33-19, 14-16) finished the regular season in 12th place in the 16-team SEC standings. Next up is the SEC Baseball Tournament this week in Hoover, Alabama. Texas is the top seed in the conference tournament as the regular-season champion.
The Sooners, the 12-seed, will face 13-seed Kentucky in the second game of the SEC tournament on Tuesday. That game will start approximately one hour after the 9:30 a.m. CT first game between No. 9 Alabama and No. 13 Missouri. Kentucky swept the three-game series with Oklahoma this season.
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