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OU baseball cannot finish weekend sweep, downed 7-3

Eddie On3by:Eddie Radosevich•05/04/25
Oklahoma baseball coach Skip Johnson
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It was a good weekend, but OU baseball fell short of making it a great weekend Sunday as Ole Miss avoided the weekend sweep with a 7-3 win at L. Dale Mitchell Ballpark. 

And despite winning the weekend series, taking two of three from the Rebels, Sunday’s series finale was a reminder there’s still some holes that need to be filled if OU wants to put together a deep postseason run. 

Easton Carmichael’s RBI single gave Oklahoma a 1-0 lead in the opening frame. Austin Frawley’s team-leading 14th home run quickly tied the game in the top of the second. 

After loading the bases in the second, forcing Mike Bianco to go to the bullpen, Ole Miss reliever Mason Morris induced an inning-ending ground ball. Morris went on to pitch 3.2 innings, limiting OU to just three hits, a run and striking out four. He picked up his fourth win of the season.

Costly errors in the third 

Ole Miss broke open the game in the third inning, thanks in part to a pair of errors from the right side of the Sooners infield. After nearly making a miraculous play on a soft contact Luke Cheng batted ball, Kyle Branch booted a routine ground ball. There was life. 

Luke Hill followed with an RBI single, scoring Cheng to give Ole Miss a 2-1 lead. Oklahoma starter Malachi Witherspoon battled back with a pair of strikeouts. And it looked as if the Sooners were going to be able to avoid a big inning. 

Isaac Humphrey hit a ball to Mason Hamlin at first base and the OU infielder airmailed Witherspoon covering the bag, allowing another run to score. Ole Miss wouldn’t look back on the 3-1 lead. 

It’s small things against good competition that add up. Something Oklahoma head coach Skip Johnson opened his postgame remarks with. 

“In this league when you don’t play catch and give extra outs away, you lose the momentum in the game,” Johnson said. “When you lose momentum in the game, you’re going to get beat.

“We just didn’t separate the game when we had a chance. We had a chance in the second to really open the game up a little bit and we didn’t do that. Didn’t come up with a big hit.”  

Sooners bullpen solid (again) 

Six Oklahoma relievers combined to throw 4.1 innings on Sunday, striking out seven. Gavyn Jones came on in relief of Witherspoon and threw 1.1 innings, allowing just a lone hit. Michael Catalano and Reid Hensley each worked an inning. Beau Sampson, Jaden Barfield and Jackson Kircher each threw a 0.1 inning. 

It’s a continued step in the right direction for the OU bullpen that will certainly be thrown into much higher leverage situations over the course of the next few weekends into postseason play. 

Jason Walk the lone bright spot offensively 

Jason Walk went 3-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored on Sunday.

He tripled to open the first and scored on the Carmichael RBI single. His RBI single in the fourth cut the Ole Miss lead to 4-2. And his second triple of the game came in the seventh, scoring on a Trey Gambill sac fly to centerfield. 

On the flip side of that is Jaxon Willits who went 0-for-4 with a pair of Ks. The Sooners sophomore shortstop is slumping over his last seven games, going 2-for-25 with 9 strikeouts. 

Up Next 

Oklahoma (32-14, 13-11) heads to Lexington for their final road series of the regular season for a three-game set versus Kentucky. OU closes the regular season with a three-game home series against Texas, who just got swept by Arkansas. 

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