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Cowboys Take Game One Of Bedlam Series
May 02, 2015 | Cowboy Baseball
TULSA, Okla. -- Oklahoma State erased an early deficit against its in-state rival Friday night as the 11th-ranked Cowboys claimed a 9-6 win over No. 25 Oklahoma in the opening game of the Bedlam Series in front of 9,087 fans at ONEOK Field.The win was the third in a row for the Cowboys, who improved to 30-14 overall and 13-6 in Big 12 Conference play.
Ryan Sluder led the OSU offense with a 2-for-4, two-RBI night, while Jon Perrin picked up the win on the mound, working seven innings and improving to 5-4 on the year. The Cowboys also played outstanding defense, led by several highlight reel plays from right fielder Corey Hassel and an impressive play by second baseman Tim Arakawa to end the game.
The win marked OSU's 13th come-from-behind triumph of the season after OU took a 3-0 advantage in its first at bat.
"To end up on the wrong side of the scoreboard in the first inning and fight back and win against a team as good as OU, that's a great effort by your team," said OSU head coach Josh Holliday. "Jon (Perrin) settled in a pitched a really nice ballgame after the first inning, Corey (Hassel) made some fantastic defensive plays that helped shorten some innings and we had some nice swings of the bat and put some nice innings together collectively....
"I'm proud of the kids. Good ballgame, big-time atmosphere for college baseball. But it is just one game so we'll sleep on it, wake up and come out and compete again in game two."
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The Sooners (29-20, 10-6) jumped out to an early lead with three runs on four hits, all singles, in the bottom of the first inning as they got RBIs from Kolbey Carpenter, Sheldon Neuse and Robert Tasin.
OSU trimmed its deficit in its next at bat. After back-to-back walks to Conor Costello and Arakawa to open the second, Sluder laid down a sacrifice bunt. Costello would plate the Cowboys' first run on a throwing error before a Bryan Case RBI single made the score 3-2.
That score remained until the fifth when the Cowboys rallied with two outs to take the lead.
Once again, things got started with consecutive walks, this time to Donnie Walton and Dustin Williams, and up next, Costello delivered an RBI single to tie the score at 3-3. The Cowboys weren't done as, with the bases full, Sluder recorded an RBI infield single that also saw a run score on a throwing error to give OSU a 5-3 edge.
Holliday's ballclub rallied for three more runs in the sixth. Jacob Chappell drew a walk to open the frame, and a hit by pitch and bunt single by Hassel loaded the bases. Walton then delivered a sacrifice fly for OSU's sixth run before Williams plated a run with a double. The Pokes pushed their lead to 8-3 when Hassel scored on a wild pitch.
With the outburst of offensive support, Perrin settled in and got the best of the OU offense after the first inning. Following the four hits and three runs he allowed in the Sooners' first at bat, the senior right-hander worked six-straight scoreless frames and surrendered just two hits.
"I just settled in after the first inning and made better pitches," Perrin said. "I made two mistakes in the (first) inning... You've just got to keep executing, you can't get frustrated. Those things are going to happen, and you've just got to wait for the game to come back to you.
"I came back out in innings two through seven just working on throwing up zeroes and giving my offense a chance to come back, which they did in a big way there in the middle innings."
Perrin was also the beneficiary of some outstanding defensive plays, including a catch by Hassel in the bottom of the fourth where he fully extended his body to make an inning-ending diving grab along the right-field line and rob OU's Kyle Mendenhall of an extra-bast hit.
"Fantastic - it's a center field athlete playing right field and so you see the breaks on the ball and the explosion on the dive and just the instinctive tracking that he has," said Holliday of Hassel's defensive efforts in right field. "He played really well; I'm really proud of him. He's been a winning player all year. He does little things like that that sometimes are not box score items, but his teammates certainly notice them."
OSU's final run came in the seventh when Sluder led off the inning with a home run to left field, with his fifth round tripper of the year giving the Cowboys a 9-3 lead.
That insurance proved valuable as OU made things interesting over the final two innings.
The Sooners plated a pair of runs in the eighth before loading the bases with one out and the tying run at the plate against Koda Glover in the ninth. But the Cowboys' closer worked out of the jam, with Arakawa making a diving stop on a sharp grounder up the middle to end it as he snared the ball and flipped to second base for the game's final out.
The series now shifts to Oklahoma City's Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark for the final two games. Saturday's contest is set for a 7 p.m. start before Sunday's finale at 4 p.m.
Ryan Sluder led the OSU offense with a 2-for-4, two-RBI night, while Jon Perrin picked up the win on the mound, working seven innings and improving to 5-4 on the year. The Cowboys also played outstanding defense, led by several highlight reel plays from right fielder Corey Hassel and an impressive play by second baseman Tim Arakawa to end the game.
The win marked OSU's 13th come-from-behind triumph of the season after OU took a 3-0 advantage in its first at bat.
"To end up on the wrong side of the scoreboard in the first inning and fight back and win against a team as good as OU, that's a great effort by your team," said OSU head coach Josh Holliday. "Jon (Perrin) settled in a pitched a really nice ballgame after the first inning, Corey (Hassel) made some fantastic defensive plays that helped shorten some innings and we had some nice swings of the bat and put some nice innings together collectively....
"I'm proud of the kids. Good ballgame, big-time atmosphere for college baseball. But it is just one game so we'll sleep on it, wake up and come out and compete again in game two."
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The Sooners (29-20, 10-6) jumped out to an early lead with three runs on four hits, all singles, in the bottom of the first inning as they got RBIs from Kolbey Carpenter, Sheldon Neuse and Robert Tasin.
OSU trimmed its deficit in its next at bat. After back-to-back walks to Conor Costello and Arakawa to open the second, Sluder laid down a sacrifice bunt. Costello would plate the Cowboys' first run on a throwing error before a Bryan Case RBI single made the score 3-2.
That score remained until the fifth when the Cowboys rallied with two outs to take the lead.
Once again, things got started with consecutive walks, this time to Donnie Walton and Dustin Williams, and up next, Costello delivered an RBI single to tie the score at 3-3. The Cowboys weren't done as, with the bases full, Sluder recorded an RBI infield single that also saw a run score on a throwing error to give OSU a 5-3 edge.
Holliday's ballclub rallied for three more runs in the sixth. Jacob Chappell drew a walk to open the frame, and a hit by pitch and bunt single by Hassel loaded the bases. Walton then delivered a sacrifice fly for OSU's sixth run before Williams plated a run with a double. The Pokes pushed their lead to 8-3 when Hassel scored on a wild pitch.
With the outburst of offensive support, Perrin settled in and got the best of the OU offense after the first inning. Following the four hits and three runs he allowed in the Sooners' first at bat, the senior right-hander worked six-straight scoreless frames and surrendered just two hits.
"I just settled in after the first inning and made better pitches," Perrin said. "I made two mistakes in the (first) inning... You've just got to keep executing, you can't get frustrated. Those things are going to happen, and you've just got to wait for the game to come back to you.
"I came back out in innings two through seven just working on throwing up zeroes and giving my offense a chance to come back, which they did in a big way there in the middle innings."
Perrin was also the beneficiary of some outstanding defensive plays, including a catch by Hassel in the bottom of the fourth where he fully extended his body to make an inning-ending diving grab along the right-field line and rob OU's Kyle Mendenhall of an extra-bast hit.
"Fantastic - it's a center field athlete playing right field and so you see the breaks on the ball and the explosion on the dive and just the instinctive tracking that he has," said Holliday of Hassel's defensive efforts in right field. "He played really well; I'm really proud of him. He's been a winning player all year. He does little things like that that sometimes are not box score items, but his teammates certainly notice them."
OSU's final run came in the seventh when Sluder led off the inning with a home run to left field, with his fifth round tripper of the year giving the Cowboys a 9-3 lead.
That insurance proved valuable as OU made things interesting over the final two innings.
The Sooners plated a pair of runs in the eighth before loading the bases with one out and the tying run at the plate against Koda Glover in the ninth. But the Cowboys' closer worked out of the jam, with Arakawa making a diving stop on a sharp grounder up the middle to end it as he snared the ball and flipped to second base for the game's final out.
The series now shifts to Oklahoma City's Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark for the final two games. Saturday's contest is set for a 7 p.m. start before Sunday's finale at 4 p.m.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Perrin, Jon (5-4)
L: Elliott, Jake (4-4)
Batting:
2B: Williams, Dustin 1
HR: Sluder, Ryan 1
RBI: Walton, Donnie 1 ; Williams, Dustin 1 ; Costello, Conor 1 ; Sluder, Ryan 2 ; Case, Bryan 1
SH: Hassel, Corey 1 ; Sluder, Ryan 1
SF: Walton, Donnie 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Green, Gage 1 ; Hassel, Corey 1 ; Walton, Donnie 1 ; Williams, Dustin 1 ; Costello, Conor 2 ; Arakawa, Tim 1 ; Sluder, Ryan 1 ; Chappell, Jacob 1
HBP: Green, Gage 1
Batting:
2B: Neuse, Sheldon 1 ; Haley, Hunter 1 ; Mendenhall, Kyle 1
RBI: Carpenter, Kolbey 2 ; Neuse, Sheldon 3 ; Tasin, Robert 1
SH: Alspaugh, Taylor 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Aikin, Craig 1 ; Alspaugh, Taylor 1 ; Carpenter, Kolbey 2 ; Hermelyn, Anthony 1 ; Mendenhall, Kyle 1
CS: Haley, Hunter 1
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