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Oklahoma Pitcher Wins Final Big 12 Honor

Senior Braden Carmichael threw a "Maddux" against Oklahoma State, logging a complete-game shutout in less than 100 pitches.

John E. Hoover

OU Athletics

By OU Media Relations

Oklahoma senior Braden Carmichael was named the Big 12 Pitcher of the Week after pitching a complete-game shutout against Oklahoma State on Friday night, the conference office announced Monday.

Carmichael registered his first career complete game at Oklahoma, leading the Sooners to a 5-0 victory over the Cowboys. He struck out five batters, allowed four hits and walked none, facing only four batters over the minimum. The Prosper, TX, product accomplished the feat in just 96 pitches, 70 of which were strikes, completing a โ€œMadduxโ€ โ€“ a complete-game shutout in fewer than 100 pitches.

His effort was OUโ€™s first complete game since Dane Acker pitched a no-hitter on March 1, 2020.

This is Braden Carmichaelโ€™s career Big 12 weekly honor and Oklahomaโ€™s fourth conference weekly award this season. Freshman catcher Easton Carmichael was named Big 12 Newcomer of the Week on March 13, junior shortstop Dakota Harris was named Newcomer of the Week on March 20 and junior pitcher Carter Campbell was named Pitcher of the Week on April 24.

Oklahoma opens the 2023 Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship against Oklahoma State at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Globe Life Field in Arlington, TX.

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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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