The Sooners drop the first game of their series to the Jayhawks 17-15 on Friday night. Now they are in the position where they must win Saturday and Sunday afternoon. Check out Rock Chalk Talk for a complete series breakdown and leave your thoughts both there and here.

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When you've had the type of baseball season Oklahoma has a win over a Top 10 team comes with much celebration. Oklahoma gave the game away to the Shockers in the 6th when they gave up 5 runs to Wichita State after taking a 6-3 lead in the bottom of the 5th. OU would then steal the game back in extra innings when Mike Goss doubled in the bottom of the 10th to score Jamie Johnson and Aljay Davis and provide the Sooners with a 12-11 win.

It was, however, Aaron Baker's heroics in the bottom of the 9th that would even give Oklahoma the chance to win it in extra innings. Trailing 10-7 Baker hit a three-run homer to tie the game allowing Goss to be the eventual hero in the 10th.

Who knows what the future holds in store for this Oklahoma baseball team. They've won three of their last four games and at least appear to be coming along just in time for the season to wrap up and make a run for the post season.

OU plays at Kansas this weekend before hosting Kansas State next weekend and then on to the Bedlam series before the conference tournament.  

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Oklahoma is in a must win situation this weekend at Texas Tech as the Sooners literally cannot afford to lose another series. While this season has been less than stellar there are many possibilities for Oklahoma stemming from this weekend's series with the Red Raiders.

Texas Tech comes into the series with a conference worst 5-13 record while the Sooners aren't very far behind at 4-10-1. It's a simple concept this weekend. Win and stay in contention to make the conference tournament. Lose and the Sooners are moving into the conference basement.

Other match-ups to watch the weekend that could affect Oklahoma are Texas vs. Kansas State and Oklahoma State vs. Kansas.  

UPDATE: - Sooners use at 4 run 6th inning yo spark a 12-7 win over the Red Raiders Friday night.

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This baseball season has been feast or famine for Oklahoma. They've featsed on mid-week games but come conference play over the weekend's its nothing but famine. Now, as the season is winding down OU is in danger of not making the conference tournament.

The Sooners currently sit in 9th place with a 4-10-1 conference record and are on the road this weekend at Texas Tech this weekend. The Red Raiders are the only team behind Oklahoma in the conference standings and OU needs to keep it that way through this weekend and gain ground on Kansas State, Kansas and Baylor.

If there ever was a weekend for Oklahoma to gain some ground it would be this one. Kansas State has to play against Texas, Kansas is at Oklahoma State and Baylor is hosting Nebraska. Only one game seperates OU from Kansas State and Kansas and there is a four game seperation between the Sooners and Baylor. Come Monday OU could find themselves in 7th place or last place or even somewhere in between. The determining factor will be what they do at Texas Tech.

Big 12 Baseball Standings
Texas A&M 15-3
Nebraska 13-4-1
OSU 11-7
Missouri 9-6
Texas 8-10
Baylor 8-10
Kansas 5-10
KSU 5-10
OU 4-10-1
Texas Tech 5-13

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To say that OU's baseball team is struggling would be gentle. The Sooners are 3-8-1 in conference going into this weekend's series with Missouri. It is way beyond rally time for Oklahoma. This weekend is huge and another sweep could find the Sooners in last place.

On a side note - Remember the time when Missouri thought they were better than Oklahoma in football? Yeah, that's a fun night to relive.

Update #1: Sooners drop first game to Missouri 9-4.
Update #2: Sooners lose 2nd in a row to Missouri (6-5) and will try to avoid the sweep tomorrow.
Update #3: Sooners avoid getting swept by pounding Missouri 22-4.

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After dropping the first of a three game baseball series against the Texas Longhorns 10-7 on Friday night the Sooners took game two 5-3 on Saturday afternoon. Now for the first time since 2004 OU and Texas will enter the third game of a season series tied at one game apiece. The first pitch is at 1:00 this afternoon at L. Dale Mitchell Park.

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Despite losing 7-3 on Sunday afternoon the Oklahoma Sooners took two of three games from the 20th ranked Baylor Bears over the weekend to bring up their conference record to 2-3-1 and their overall record to 20-8-1. After going 0-2-1 last weekend at #22 Nebraska the Sooners put themselves in a must win situation to both keep place in the conference and to build the confidence of a youthful team.

After sneaking by Texas Arlington, 6-5, on Tuesday Oklahoma took the first game of the Baylor series Friday night, 11-2, off of a solid 7 2/3 inning pitching performance by sophomore Jeremy Erben and 6 run second inning where the Sooners batted around the lineup.

Saturday it was a one-out single in the tenth inning by J.T. Wise that scored the winning run in OU's 3-2 victory over the Bears and clinched the series victory. However, before Wise did his thing the Sooners needed a Jamie Johnson homerun in the bottom of the ninth to send the game into extra innings. In both wins OU got solid pitching from their starters and relievers along with timely hits.

OU stays at home this week to play Dallas Baptist on Tuesday before taking on the Texas Longhorns over the weekend. Oklahoma played Dallas Baptist earlier this season edging out a 3-1 win on March 11 and the Longhorns are currently 5-4 in conference play and 18-8 overall.  

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Oklahoma railed off their 9th consecutive win on Sunday afternoon in the final of a four game sweep of Illinois. In the series OU outscored the Leathernecks 37-16 with impressive offensive performances in games one and two of the series backed up by solid pitching.

From the mound sophomore Chase Anderson had an impressive start to the series going seven innings and only allowing two runs on seven hits on Friday afternoon. The two runs would never even threaten the Sooners because for the fourth straight game Oklahoma would plate 10 or more runs.

Offensively it was senior Jarod Freeman who turned in the best performance of the series. In the second game he scored 3 runs and knocked in 2 more RBI's by going 3-4 from the plate including a home run.

Oklahoma is in Frisco, Texas this week for games against Dallas Baptist (Tuesday) and Northern Illinois (Wednesday).

Western Illinois Game Results
Game 1: 12-2 Sooners
Game 2: 11-6 Sooners
Game 3: 7-4 Sooners
Game 4:7-4 Sooners

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Oklahoma's baseball team improved to 8-2 on the season by outscoring North Dakota State 37-6 in a three game sweep Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. The Sooners used 44 hits to score their 37 runs and bump their winning streak to five in a row.

Now the Sooners are preparing for a four game weekend series against Western Illinois. OU will play Friday afternoon, two on Saturday and the final game on Sunday. The probable pitchers for OU this weekend are Chase Anderson (Friday), Garrett Richards and freshman sensation Michael Rocha (Saturday), Jeremy Erben (Sunday).

Oklahoma is off to a good start to the season and a weekend sweep would allow them to have won their last nine games in a row. When you have a team as young as this one is momentum is everything and at least for now the Sooners are rolling in it.

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After dropping their opening game 7-2 to the #9 Rice Owls the OU baseball team bounced back with wins over Houston (8-5) and Tennessee (2-0) in the Houston College Classic. The two wins improved Oklahoma's record to 5-2 with a three game series against North Dakota State coming up in Norman beginning on Tuesday.

Saturday's victory over the Cougars was a slug fest with the Sooners out hitting Houston 11-8. Oklahoma scored in the top of the 9th on a J.T. Wise sacrifice fly to center field. Then in the 10th came Oklahoma's biggest hit of the day off the bat of sophomore Spencer Selby who knocked a three-run home run over the left-field fence to give the Sooners their 8-5 victory.

Sunday 2-0 win over Tennessee was a pitcher's duel with Sooner true freshman Michael Rocha blanking the Volunteers in eight innings of work by striking out seven batters and only giving up two hits. Rocha would retire the fist 12 batters he faced.

Other than getting out played by Rice (who also beat the Texas Longhorns) on Friday the Sooners had a very solid showing in Houston. This is a young team who is playing very well at the start of the season and unless they "hit the wall" they'll only get stronger.

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Oklahoma baseball scored a two game sweep of Arkansas Pine Bluff on Tuesday and Wednesday with 8-2 and 9-3 wins respectively. In the series Oklahoma posted 21 hits to fuel their 17 runs and continued to get solid pitching with Ryan Duke and C.J. Blue getting the starts.

Now, after winning three games in a row, the Sooners are off to the Houston College Classic where they'll play Rice this afternoon, Houston on Saturday afternoon and Tennessee on Sunday morning. Here's a sneak peek at the field.

Rice Owls
First Pitch: Friday at Noon
Record:  3-2
Ranking:  15 (Baseball America); 11 (Collegiate Baseball); 9 (NCBWA)
Series: OU leads 6-4
Game Result: 7-2 Rice

Houston Cougers
First Pitch: Saturday at Noon
Record:  3-2
Ranking:  NA
Series: OU leads 19-7
Game Result: 8-5 Sooners

Tennessee Volunteers
First Pitch: Sunday at 11:00 am
Record:  3-1
Ranking:  NA
Series: OU leads 1-0
Game Result: 2-0 Sooners

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