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OU Baseball: Oklahoma Sweeps Gonzaga

The Sooners finished their three-game series in Spokane strong at the plate with 15 more hits, and also got some solid starting pitching from James Hitt.
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OU Baseball: Oklahoma Sweeps Gonzaga
OU Baseball: Oklahoma Sweeps Gonzaga

By OU Media Relations

SPOKANE, WA — Anthony Mackenzie and Bryce Madron each registered three hits and James Hitt pitched seven innings to lead the Oklahoma baseball team to a 9-1 win at Gonzaga Sunday at Patterson Baseball Complex.

The Sooners (29-22) jumped out to a 6-0 lead after two innings and added three more runs in the fourth and fifth stanzas. The Bulldogs (18-30) scored their lone run in the second inning.

Hitt (5-0) struck out five and allowed just one walk while eclipsing five frames in his seventh straight start. 

Seven different OU batters recorded one RBI in the game. John Spikerman, Wallace Clark and Diego Muniz each notched two hits for Oklahoma, which finished with 15 hits, all singles. In fact, all 26 combined hits between the teams on Sunday were singles. The Sooners totaled 44 hits in the series, 37 singles.

“The offense was really, really good and set the tone today,” Oklahoma head coach Skip Johnson said. “Jamie was able to focus on just making pitches and I thought he was really good. Our offense just played really well today.”

Oklahoma scored two runs quickly in the first inning. Mackenzie, Madron and Dakota Harris hit three consecutive singles to begin the game, bringing in the first run. Kendall Pettis followed with a sacrifice fly to plate Madron. The Sooners took advantage of a one-out walk and four straight hits in the second inning to score four more runs.

Gonzaga scored in the second inning on an RBI single by Mason Marenco, but Hitt needed only six pitches to get through five batters in the frame. The lefty rolled a double play to end the third, retired the side in order in the fourth and worked around singles in the next three stanzas to cap his outing.

The Sooners added a run in the fourth inning on four straight hits, including one by Madron that scored Muniz. Spikerman and Easton Carmichael had back-to-back RBI hits in the fifth inning to reach the 9-1 margin.

Carson Pierce relieved Hitt to start the eighth inning and struck out two over 2.0 scoreless frames. GU starter Bradley Mullan (3-3) took the loss.

After playing seven straight on the road (with a 5-2 record), Oklahoma returns home to L. Dale Mitchell Park for four games this week. The Sooners play host to UT Arlington at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday before Oklahoma State comes to Norman for a three-game Bedlam Big 12 set Thursday through Saturday.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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