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OU Baseball: Oklahoma OF Bryce Madron Lands Big 12 Award

The Sooners' senior outfielder put on a show at the plate as OU went undefeated last week and re-entered the rankings ahead of the 2024 stretch run.
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Oklahoma's Bryce Madron
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By OU Media Relations

Oklahoma senior Bryce Madron was named Big 12 Co-Player of the Week after an explosive weekend at the plate in OU’s three-game sweep of BYU. The conference announced the weekly honors Monday. Madron shared the award with Texas Tech’s Austin Green.

On the weekend, Madron hit .538 (7-for-13) with three home runs, four doubles, nine runs batted in and seven runs scored. The right fielder had a pair of three-hit performances, slugged 1.538 on the weekend and capped the sweep with a two-homer, one double, seven RBI day on Saturday, with the home runs coming in consecutive plate appearances.

Saturday marked his first game with back-to-back homers and second career multi-home run game. His seven RBI were the most for a Sooner since 2010 as the 2023 All-Big 12 Honorable Mention helped OU to its fourth sweep in 2024, good for the most Big 12 sweeps in a season in program history. The senior outfielder was also exceptional in right field, making a pair of diving catches to maintain OU leads in Games 2 and 3.

The honor is Madron’s second Player of the Week accolade of the season (3/18), marking the first time a Sooner has won two conference POTW awards in one season since Kolbey Carpenter collected three in 2015.

In Big 12 play, Madron ranks first in the conference in runs scored (26), second in doubles (8) and fourth in RBIs (21).

Madron and the Sooners (24-14, 14-4) return to L. Dale Mitchell Park for a four-game homestand starting Tuesday vs. Wichita State. First pitch is set for 6:30 p.m. 

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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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