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OU Baseball: Oklahoma Beats No. 12 TCU on Night Two of DFW Trip

The Sooners scored four runs in the seventh inning while Kyson Witherspoon held the Horned Frogs scoreless under the Friday night Texas sky.
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OU Baseball: Oklahoma Beats No. 12 TCU on Night Two of DFW Trip
OU Baseball: Oklahoma Beats No. 12 TCU on Night Two of DFW Trip

Oklahoma’s baseball team secured win No. 1 of a three-game series Friday night at No. 12-ranked TCU in Fort Worth.

The Sooners beat TCU 7-3 as Kyson Witherspoon closed and secured his second win of the year. After Braden Davis’ start, Witherspoon pitched the final five frames of the night and didn’t allow a run while tossing eight strikeouts.

The Sooners took a 2-1 fourth-inning lead on Michael Snyder’s bellowing hit over the right-field wall sent himself and Easton Carmichael across the plate. 

TCU answered in the fifth. A sacrifice bunt on no outs put runners on second and third, and a Logan Maxwell single brought both runners home to put the home team up 3-2.

A Carter Frederick seventh-inning single to left field scored Jackson Nicklaus, tied the game and put Kendall Pettis on second. Pettis scored next to take the lead on John Spikerman’s single while Frederick advanced to third. Both Frederick and Spikerman scored on Carmichael and Bryce Madron’s RBI as the Sooners shot ahead to a 6-3 lead.

Nicklaus scored the game’s final run on a sacrifice fly via Frederick in the eighth inning.

Friday was the Sooners’ second win on a four-night trip to Texas after they defeated UTA 5-1 on Thursday. They play TCU again on Saturday at 5 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m.

It was also OU’s second win this year against a ranked opponent. The Sooners beat No. 9 Tennessee on Feb. 17 in Arlington.

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Bryce McKinnis
BRYCE MCKINNIS

Bryce is a contributor for AllSooners and has been featured in several publications, including the Associated Press, the Tulsa World and the Norman Transcript. A Tishomingo native, Bryce’s sports writing career began at 17 years old when he filed his first story for the Daily Ardmoreite. As a student at the University of Central Oklahoma, he worked on several award-winning projects, including The Vista’s coverage of the 2021 UCO cheer hazing scandal. After graduating in 2021, Bryce took his first job covering University of Tulsa and Oral Roberts University sports for the Tulsa World before accepting a role as managing editor of VYPE Magazine in 2022. - UCO Mass Communications/Sports Feature (2019) - UCO Mass Communications/Investigative Reporting (2021) - UCO College of Liberal Arts/Academic presentation, presidential politics and ideology (2021) - OBEA/Multimedia reporting (2021) - Beat Writer, The Tulsa World (2021-2022) - Managing Editor, VYPE Magazine (2022-2023)

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