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OU Baseball: Oklahoma Takes Down KU

John Spikerman drove in five runs and Braden Carmichael had a quality start as the Sooners evened the series with the Jayhawks.
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OU Baseball: Oklahoma Takes Down KU
OU Baseball: Oklahoma Takes Down KU

John Spikerman had two home runs and five RBIs and Oklahoma got a quality start from Braden Carmichael as the Sooners beat up on Kansas 11-6 on Saturday at L. Dale Mitchell Field.

OU improved to 23-20 while KU fell to 21-22.

Hitting in the 5-hole, Spikerman had two of the Sooners’ four home runs, as Easton Carmichael and Sebastian Orduno also homered to even the series with the Jayhawks.

Braden Carmichael threw 5 1/3 innings and gave up nine hits and five runs, but didn’t allow an earned run as he ran his record to 4-0 on the season.

Three OU relievers gave up just one run the rest of the way as OU built a 7-0 lead in the third inning but then gave up five unearned runs in the fourth. The Sooners then closed it downs with three runs in the seventh.

Diego Muniz got the scoring started with an RBI single in the second to score Spikerman. Orduno then followed up with a two-run home run to make it 3-0.

In the third, OU plated four runs as Spikerman blasted a three-run shot to put the Sooners up 7-0.

After Bryce Madron’s error in right field and a single, the Sooners got two quick outs, but then Carmichael couldn’t get out of the jam.

Mike Koszewski, the Jayhawks’s 9-hole hitter, delivered a two-run single, and leadoff Chase Jans blasted a three-run home run to make it 7-5.

OU put it away with three runs in the seventh — a rally started by Kendall Pettis’ sacrifice fly to score Anthony Mackenzie and Spikerman’s second blast to bring home Madron.

KU scored a run in the top of the eighth, but Easton Carmichael got it back with a solo shot to left in the bottom of the eighth.

The series concludes Sunday as the Sooners and Jayhawks meet in a 2 p.m. rubber match.

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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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