Sooners Debut New Arms In Weekend Series Against Hofstra
The Sooners will open up their baseball season at home this afternoon when they play the Hofstra Pride. The two schools have never played each other and this is the first time that Oklahoma has opened their season at home in two years. However, those are subplots to a weekend that will give Oklahoma fans their first look at the new pitchers.
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When all is said and done, your baseball team is only going to go as far as your pitching staff can take you. Oklahoma started the season with a four-game sweep of Hofstra and while the batting was more than solid (31 runs in four games) the pitching staff had an impressive performance as a whole but a bit of an up and down performance individually.
In the week's opening season, Oklahoma players swept the Big 12's player and pitcher of the week awards following their four game sweep of Hofstra over the weekend.
Dillon Overton and Matt Oberste were honored for their respective performances in the season opening series. Overton struck out seven in his seven innings of work, while allowing just two hits to help power No. 14 Oklahoma to a 10-4 victory over Hofstra on Friday.
From the Big 12:
Oberste's one-out, three-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning propelled No. 14 Oklahoma to a 7-4 victory over Hofstra Sunday at L. Dale Mitchell Park in Norman and secured a four-game weekend series sweep. Oberste capped off a big opening weekend with his game-winning bomb. He hit .429 with six hits - including a double, a triple and the homer - while driving in a team-high nine runs. His clutch hitting helped the Sooners rally for a three-run ninth inning Saturday night, as he cracked a two-out, two-RBI single to knot the contest at 10-all and send the game into extras. After the first week of play, his nine RBI and 12 total bases lead the Big 12.
After a comfortable win in the season opener the Oklahoma baseball team had to survive three consecutive nail biting finishes to start the season with a 4-0 record. While there were plenty of plays made by OU's newcomers in the series, the biggest play on Sunday afternoon came when Matt Oberste did what he does best.
Oklahoma and Hofstra played twenty innings of baseball on Saturday and will compete for one final time this afternoon. The Sooners have won the series three games to none and will be looking for the sweep today.
After a relatively easy win in the season opener on Friday night the Sooners were in for in for a brawl in their Saturday double-header. Hofstra proved that although they are small they can still pack a punch and put an opponent against the ropes. To Oklahoma's credit, they were able to bounce off the ropes on Saturday afternoon and deliver the knockout blow...twice.
Oklahoma took the first of a four game series against Hofstra on Friday when they scored a 10-4 victory a L. Dale Mitchell Park. The two teams will square off once again, in a double-header, giving the Sooners the opportunity to take the series.
The end result was what they wanted, a 10-4 win, but the process of getting there was a struggle at times. The Sooners committed four errors in the opener but a solid performance from the mound by Dillon Overton and some exceptional play by a few of the newcomers was enough to lead Oklahoma to a comfortable win.
The Sooners will open up their baseball season at home this afternoon when they play the Hofstra Pride. The two schools have never played each other and this is the first time that Oklahoma has opened their season at home in two years. However, those are subplots to a weekend that will give Oklahoma fans their first look at the new pitchers.
