Oklahoma State with a Bedlam Exclamation to Win the Big 12 Championship

(The Big 12 Conference staff contributed to this story,)

ARLINGTON, Texas - No. 2 seed Oklahoma State took the Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship over top-seed Oklahoma with a 9-3 victory. It was OSU's first Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball title in five years. The win is the Cowboys' fourth Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship (2004, '17, '19, '24) and improves their record to 4-3 in the Championship final.

The top three in the Cowboys' lineup provided big today for Oklahoma State as they combined 7-for-14 with four RBIs and 5 runs scored.

Oklahoma State Athletics

Carson Benge (hands up left) and Brian Holiday (right in oragne) celebrate  championship.

Carson Benge was named the Most Outstanding Player of the 2024 Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship All-Tournament Team, going 2-for-5 with two runs scored in the title game. Lead-off hitter Lane Forsythe recorded three hits, two runs, and an RBI in the final game.

Nolan Schubart, Kollin Ritchie, and Ian Daugherty all homered in the championship finale, with Ritchie and Daugherty going back-to-back in the top of the eighth.

2024 Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship All-Tournament Team
C: Danny Neri, UCF
1B: Kurtis Byrne, TCU
2B: Jackson Nicklaus, Oklahoma
3B: Anthony MacKenzie, Oklahoma
SS: Jaxon Willits, Oklahoma
OF: Kendall Pettis, Oklahoma
OF: Carson Benge, Oklahoma State
OF: Nolan Schubart, Oklahoma State
OF: Sam Myers, TCU
DH: Easton Carmichael, Oklahoma
SP: Braden Davis, Oklahoma
SP: Sam Garcia, Oklahoma State
RP: Grant Stevens, Oklahoma
Most Outstanding Player:
Carson Benge, Oklahoma State
A tie resulted in four outfielders on the All-Tournament Team

Oklahoma State got on the board early in the top of the first after a sacrifice fly from Zach Ehrhard scored Benge, who got moved to third on a Schubart double.

The Cowboys got a rally going in the fifth as they put runners on second and third with no outs to start the inning. A sacrifice fly from Avery Ortiz and a Forsythe single brought in those runners to make it 3-0. A bases-loaded walk from Ehrhard a few batters later would give Oklahoma State a four-run lead.

Oklahoma cut their deficit in half in the bottom half of the fifth inning when John Spikerman doubled to left center to bring in Kendall Pettis. Easton Carmichael followed Spikerman with a sacrifice fly to score Jason Walk.

Schubart all but sealed the game in the top of the seventh as a three-run homer to dead centerfield put the Cowboys up 7-2. This was Schubart's third consecutive game with a home run.

Michael Snyder drove in the third Sooner run of the game in the bottom of the eighth with a double down the left-field line with Carmichael coming across the plate.

Gabe Davis picked up the win in the Championship final, going 2.2 innings striking out two, and allowing one run on two hits and two walks. Davis improves his record to 2-4.

Tommy Molsky delivered 4.1 innings for the Cowboys, a season-high for the junior, and allowed only two runs on four hits and a walk. Molsky tied his season-high of eight strikeouts in the final. Robert Cranz got the last out of the game for Oklahoma State and went the final two innings giving up only three baserunners.

Carter Campbell (L, 4-1) tied both his longest outing of the season of four innings, which also came against Oklahoma State on April 6th, and the most strikeouts in a game this year with five. Campbell surrendered three runs on four hits and a walk.

Oklahoma State receives the Big 12's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Division I Baseball Championship. Full selections for the field will be revealed Monday, May 27 at 11 a.m. CT on ESPN2.