2015 Oklahoma Baseball GAME NOTES
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2015 Oklahoma Baseball GAME NOTES Games 11-14 | BYU | Las Vegas • Cashman Field (9,334) 2015 SCHEDULE Oklahoma Sooners BYU Cougars Date Opponent Time Feb. 13 Notre Dame W, 6-1 Overall: 6-4 Overall: 1-7 Feb. 14 SIUE W, 11-1 Feb. 14 Notre Dame L, 9-10 Big 12: 0-0 MWC: 0-0 Feb. 15 Notre Dame L, 1-5 Head Coach: Pete Hughes Head Coach: Mike Littlewood Feb. 15 SIUE W, 9-1 Career Record/Years: Career Record/Years: Feb. 18 at No. 17 Arizona State L, 4-7 559-418-2/18 55-59/3 Feb. 19 vs. Washington St.# L, 3-4 Feb. 20 vs. Washington# W, 10-1 Rank: NR Rank: NR Feb. 21 vs. Oregon State# W, 9-6 Game Coverage Feb. 22 vs. Utah# W, 4-3 At Home in Vegas... A stretch of cold weather in Feb. 24 at Dallas Baptist CANCELLED Oklahoma sends the Sooner baseball team on the Radio: 1400 KREF Feb. 26 BYU^ 3:00 pm road for a four-game home series against BYU at Brendan Flynn Feb. 27 BYU (DH)^ 3:00 pm Cashman Field, home of the New York Mets’ Tri- TV/Video: N/A Feb. 28 BYU^ 1:00 pm ple-A affiliate the Las Vegas 51s. The action gets Mar. 3 UALR 6:00 pm Twitter: @OU_Baseball Mar. 6 Purdue 6:00 pm underway Thursday at 3:00 pm CT. Mar. 7 Purdue 2:00 pm Live Stats: SoonerSports.com Mar. 8 Purdue 1:00 pm About the Sooners... Oklahoma finished off a Mar. 10 Oral Roberts 6:00 pm challenging stretch of 10 games in 10 days with Mar. 12 at Hawai’i 12:35 am a 6-4 record and is riding a three-game win streak Leading Off Mar. 13 at Hawai’i 12:35 am coming out of the Big 12/Pac-12 Challenge. Ju- Mar. 14 at Hawai’i 12:35 am • Kolbey Carpenter was named the Louisville Mar. 15 at Hawai’i 6:05 pm nior Kolbey Carpenter, the National and Big 12 Slugger National Player of the Week and the Big Mar. 20 Texas Tech* 6:00 pm Player of the Week, has homered in three of the 12 Player of the Week (2/23). Mar. 21 Texas Tech* 2:00 pm last four games and has totaled four on the year, Mar. 22 Texas Tech* 1:00 pm while batting a team-leading .400 with a .829 slug- • Sheldon Neuse, a preseason All-American by Mar. 24 at TCU 6:30 pm Mar. 27 at Baylor* 6:30 pm ging percentage. Junior center fielder Craig Aikin Baseball America and Perfect Game, was named returned to the lead-off spot this past weekend. Mar. 28 at Baylor* 3:00 pm to the Golden Spikes Award Watch List. Mar. 29 at Baylor* 3:00 pm He is hitting .316 with a team-high 12 runs scored Mar. 31 Central Arkansas 6:00 pm and three stolen bases. Sophomore right-handed • Craig Aikin, Kolbey Carpenter and Anthony Apr. 2 Kansas* 6:00 pm pitcher Jake Elliott moved to 2-0 on the season Hermelyn have all started on opening day in each Apr. 3 Kansas* 6:00 pm with his second seven-inning start of the year on of the last three seasons. Apr. 4 Kansas* 2:00 pm Friday. He holds a 0.64 earned run average and Apr. 7 at Oklahoma State 6:00 pm has held opponents to a .104 batting average. Apr. 10 at Texas* 7:30 pm • The Sooners were picked fifth in the Big 12 Pre- Apr. 11 at Texas* 6:30 pm At the back-end of the OU bullpen, RHP Sheldon season Poll for the second straight season. Apr. 12 at Texas* 2:30 pm Neuse and LHP Jacob Evans each notched their Apr. 14 Dallas Baptist 6:00 pm first save over the weekend. • The OU coaching staff is comprised of four Apr. 17 at West Virginia* 5:00 pm coaches with head coaching experience and a Apr. 18 at West Virginia* 3:00 pm Apr. 19 at West Virginia* 12:00 pm On the Air... All four games will be broadcast on combined 1,274 NCAA wins in 41 years. the Sooner Sports Network at KREF 1400 AM. Apr. 21 Alcorn State 6:00 pm Apr. 22 Alcorn State 6:00 pm OU’s communications director Brendan Flynn will • Oklahoma set an opening weekend attendance Apr. 24 Sam Houston State 6:00 pm handle all of the play-by-play duties. Radio broad- record with 4,181 at L. Dale Mitchell Park break- Apr. 25 Sam Houston State 2:00 pm casts can also be streamed at SoonerSports.tv. ing the previous record of 4,117 set in 2011. Apr. 26 Sam Houston State 1:00 pm Apr. 28 at Wichita State 6:30 pm May 1 vs. Oklahoma State*! 7:00 pm May 2 vs. Oklahoma State*$ 7:00 pm Projected Starters * Left-handed May 3 vs. Oklahoma State*$ TBA Lineup BA R HR RBI Notes May 8 at Kansas State* 6:30 pm May 9 at Kansas State* 2:00 pm CF-Craig Aikin* .316 12 0 5 Returned to lead-off role vs. Washington on 2/20. May 10 at Kansas State* 1:00 pm RF-Taylor Alspaugh .261 2 0 2 Diving catch made SC Top 10 (#7) on 2/20. May 12 Stephen F. Austin 6:00 pm SS-Sheldon Neuse .206 7 1 8 Preseason All-American. May 14 TCU* 6:00 pm 3B-Anthony Hermelyn .297 4 0 9 Hit clean-up in all 10 games. May 15 TCU* 6:00 pm 1B-Austin O’Brien .289 9 2 8 Two home runs at home opening weekend. May 16 TCU* 2:00 pm LF-Kolbey Carpenter .400 9 4 11 National and Big 12 Player of the Week (2/23). May 20-24 Big 12 Championship TBD May 29-June 1 NCAA Regionals TBD DH-Hunter Haley 0/6 0 0 1 Three starts since hamstring pull in preseason. June 5-8 NCAA Super Regionals TBD C-Chris Shaw .161 2 0 3 All-Canadian Team by Candian Baseball News. June 13-24 College World Series TBD 2B-Joshua Ake .308 2 0 3 Went 4-for-9 in Big 12/Pac-12 Challenge. Rotation ERA W-L IP SO Notes BOLD denotes home game RHP-Jake Elliott 0.64 2-0 14.0 11 Big 12 Pitcher of the Week (2/16). All times listed are central and subject to change. RHP-Alec Hansen 6.75 1-1 8.0 16 Struck out 12 in win vs. Oregon State (2/21). * Big 12 game | # Big 12/Pac-12 Challenge ^ at Cashman Field; Las Vegas LHP-Jeffrey Curran 1.29 0-0 7.0 5 Started at Arizona State (2/18). ! - at ONEOK Field; Tulsa Key Relievers ERA W-L IP SO Notes $ - at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark; OKC RHP-Sheldon Neuse 0.00 0-0 (1sv) 2.1 2 Probable closer. LHP-Jacob Evans 1.93 0-0 (1sv) 4.2 6 2013 Freshman All-American as closer. Contact: Brendan Flynn, Assistant Director of Athletics Communications E-Mail: [email protected] | Phone: (405) 596-9264 | Twitter: @BFlynn35 | Website: SoonerSports.com 2015 Oklahoma Baseball 1951 National Champions • 1994 National Champions • 1997 Big 12 Tournament Champions • 2013 Big 12 Tournament Champions Scouting the Cougars... BYU is 1-7 on the THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA season, with its lone win coming this past Location ..........................................Norman, Okla. weekend during a four-game set with Ne- Founded .........................................................1890 braska in Peoria, Ariz. Shortstop Hayden Enrollment .................................................. 30,813 Nielsen leads the Cougars with a .364 bat- Nickname ..................................................Sooners ting average. Catcher Colton Shaver has Colors ........................................ Crimson & Cream scored a team-high five runs, while hitting Conference ..................................................Big 12 .292. Righty Kolton Mahoney has struck out President........................................ David L. Boren a team-best 11 hitters through two starts VP/Director of Athletics ...............Joe Castiglione with a 4.91 ERA. Assoc. AD (Program Admin.) .............Greg Tipton All-Time vs. BYU... Oklahoma leads the all- time series, 5-1. The two teams have never OKLAHOMA BASEBALL HEAD COACH PETE HUGHES Pete Hughes was named the ninth head played on either’s home campus. The Soon- Head Coach .............Pete Hughes (Davidson ‘90) baseball coach in program history on ers won each of the first five meetings, in- Overall Coaching Record ......553-414-2/18 Years June 27, 2013. cluding the first-ever in Riverside, Calif. in Record at Oklahoma ............. 29-29/First Season Twice named both the New England 1971. The next two wins came in 1975 in Assistant Coaches ....................... Mike Anderson Coach of the Year and the BIG EAST Honolulu. OU then took two from BYU in Las .........................................................Jamie Pinzino Coach of the Year, as well as the 2000 Vegas in 1976 by scores of 4-2 and 8-3. The ........................................................ Ryan Connolly American Baseball Coaches Association Cougars registered a win in Tempe, Ariz. in Coordinator of Operations ............... Ryan Gaines Northeast Region Coach of the Year, 1997, 21-13. Office Phone .................................(405) 325-8354 Hughes owns a well-deserved reputation First Year of Baseball .................................... 1898 for setting new standards of excellence Kings of the K... The Sooner pitching staff at every stop during his 17-year coaching All-Time Record (Seasons) ..... 2,445-1,395-11 (115) leads the Big 12 with 85 strikeouts; averag- career. ing 8.5 per game.Sophomore right-hander All-Time Big 12 Record (Seasons).... 255-227-2 (17) Hughes recorded five straight 30-win sea- Big 12 Tournament Titles ...................1997, 2013 Alec Hansen struck out 12 vs.