Cowboy Baseball Falls To UCF In Extra Innings
ARLINGTON, Texas – Oklahoma State dropped a 7-6 contest to UCF in 10 innings at the Big 12 Championship Thursday night at Globe Life Field.
With the loss, the second-seeded Cowboys fell to 37-17, while the Knights, the tourney’s No. 8 seed, are now 35-18.
OSU will face 10th-seeded Texas Tech Friday at 4 p.m. with a berth in the tourney semifinals on the line. Should the Cowboys advance, they would take on UCF at 7:30 p.m., with the winner earning a spot in Saturday’s title game.
In Thursday’s game against the Knights, Carson Benge continue his hot hitting to lead the Pokes as he went 2-for-4 with a home run and two RBIs.
Gabe Davis took to the loss on the mound to fall to 1-4. The right-hander was one of four pitchers used by the Cowboys, with starter Brennan Phillips lasting just one inning.
Davis worked 3 1/3 innings and allowed one run on three hits while striking out three and issuing three walks.
OSU jumped out to an early lead in its first at bat. Zach Ehrhard led off the inning with a double, and Benge brought him home with a single. After a walk, Aidan Meola ripped an RBI double to right-center field to make the score 2-0.
The Cowboys weren’t done as Colin Brueggemann plated the third run with a sacrifice fly before Lane Forsythe executed a perfect squeeze bunt to bring home a run and extend the lead to 4-0.
But the lead did not last long as UCF rallied to tie the score in the second, taking advantage of the Cowboys’ wildness on the mound. After a hit by pitch and two walks to open the inning, the Knights scored their first two runs on wild pitches.
Trailing 4-2, the Knights got an RBI double from Mikey Kluska before a two-out single off the bat of Lex Boedicker brought home the tying run.
The game remained deadlocked until the fifth when Benge led off the inning with his 16th homer of the season, a blast into the bullpen in right-center field.
UCF answered via the long ball to take its first lead of the game in the seventh as Matt Cedarburg delivered a two-run homer to put the Knights up 6-5.
This time it was OSU responding. Forsythe drew a one-out walk in the eighth, and Tyler Wulfert followed by ripping a double off the wall in left field to bring home the tying run.
After the game went to extra innings tied 6-6, UCF scored the go-ahead run in the 10th on a two-out RBI single by AJ Nessler.