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OU Baseball: Oklahoma Walks Off UT-Arlington

The No. 10-ranked Sooners hit three home runs and Easton Carmichael ended it with a game-winning single in the ninth.
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Oklahoma catcher Easton Carmichael
Oklahoma catcher Easton Carmichael | John E. Hoover / Sooners On SI

By OU Media Relations

Oklahoma junior Easton Carmichael dropped a walk-off single into right field to give No. 10 OU a 7-6 win over UT Arlington Tuesday night at L. Dale Mitchell Park.

After the Mavericks tied the game on a solo home run at the top of the ninth, a Jason Walk single put the winning run aboard and Carmichael did the rest, lacing a single to right for the game-winning RBI.

The Sooners (18-2, 2-1 SEC) were powered by three home runs on the night from three different Sooners. The OU pitching staff utilized six arms with all six registering at least one strikeout. 

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Following a scoreless first, the Mavericks (6-11) jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the second on a two-run single and grounder that scored a run. OU sophomore left hander Gavyn Jones entered with two men on and retired the side with a double play and strikeout. In the home half, OU senior Scott Mudler ripped a two-run double off the wall in left to pull the Sooners within one. 

UTA hit a solo home run to left center at the top of the third to pull back ahead by a pair. Oklahoma answered quickly in the bottom of the inning with a solo home run from Walk, his second in as many games and third of the year. With two outs in the frame, junior Dayton Tockey launched a two-run home run to right field to give the Sooners their first lead of the night. 

Oklahoma pulled ahead by a pair in the bottom of the fifth on Jaxon Willits’ team-leading sixth home run of the season, a solo shot to left field. 

At the top of the sixth, UTA got within a run on a two-out single before tying the contest with a two-out solo home run in the ninth. 

In the bottom of the ninth, Walk singled up the middle before the two-out, game-winning single from Carmichael kept OU undefeated at home in 2025 at 13-0. 

Willits paced OU with a career-high four hits, going 4-for-4 with one RBI and three runs scored. The sophomore was a double shy of the cycle. Five Sooners registered multi-hit days with five bringing in at least one run. Walk’s third-inning homer was his third of the year, matching his total from his freshman season last year. 

On the mound, senior Reid Hensley earned his first win in two seasons as a Sooner, striking out four while allowing one run on two hits with no walks in the final two innings. Starting lefty Cameron Johnson went one inning and surrendered three runs on two hits and four walks with one strikeout. Relievers Gavyn Jones (three innings), Michael Catalano (1 1/3), Jackson Kircher (two-thirds) and Jaden Barfield (one inning) all saw work with Catalano striking out four and the rest fanning one each. 

The Sooners return to conference play this weekend, hosting Mississippi State for the inaugural SEC series at Mitchell Park.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN 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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