Sooners Move On To Big 12 Title Game

David Sandlin registered a year large 10 strikeouts around 7. innings and Peyton Graham homered to direct Oklahoma to a 4-3 earn over Kansas Condition in the semifinals of the 2022 Phillips 66 Significant 12 Baseball Championship Saturday afternoon at Globe Lifetime Industry.

The Sooners (36-20) will enjoy in the Massive 12 Championship sport at 5 p.m. Sunday from the winner of the Oklahoma State-Texas semifinal Saturday night.

Jimmy Crooks hit a two-operate double in the sixth inning to give Oklahoma a 3-2 guide. Graham supplied an insurance policies operate in the seventh inning with his 16th household run of the season, and fifth this calendar year at World Lifestyle Industry.

Tanner Tredaway drove in the 1st run of the sport with a two-out single in the base of the initial inning. Graham established up the scoring option with his 1-out double down the still left area line.

The Wildcats (29-29) tied the recreation in the best of the next when an mistake authorized a run to appear property, then went forward 2-1 in the fifth inning on an RBI one by Funds Rugely. An RBI one by Cole Johnson in the eighth inning produced the final margin.

Sandlin turned in his 3rd superb get started at Globe Existence Subject this period. In games towards Northwestern Condition (Feb. 26), Texas (April 2) and Kansas Condition, he merged to pitch 19. innings, tally 25 strikeouts and let 12 hits, two attained runs and three walks.

On Saturday, Sandlin struck out four straight batters commencing with the finish of the second inning and punched out the facet in the 3rd and sixth frames. The seven-inning outing was his longest because pitching a season-substantial 8. innings from UTSA on March 13.

Oklahoma will make its fourth visual appeal in the Massive 12 Championship video game on Sunday. The Sooners are 2-1, with title victories in 1997 and 2013.