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OU Baseball: Oklahoma Takes Down Wichita State

Easton Carmichael drove in three of the Sooners' five runs, including a big home run in the seventh inning.

John E. Hoover

OU Baseball: Oklahoma Takes Down Wichita State
OU Baseball: Oklahoma Takes Down Wichita State /

Easton Carmichael hit a seventh-inning home run and drove in three RBIs and eight Oklahoma pitchers were productive as the Sooners beat Wichita State 5-3 on Tuesday night at L. Dale Mitchell Park in Norman.

Carmichael delivered a sacrifice fly in the third inning and an RBI single in the fifth before his big blast on a 2-0 pitch in the seventh. He also scored an unearned run on a wild pitch in the fifth inning.

Carter Frederick scored on Carmichael’s sac fly, and Anthony Mackenzie came home on his single to left.

Rocco Garza-Gongora also drove in a run for the Sooners with a fourth-inning groundout.

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OU improved to 6-5 on the season while Wichita State fell to 7-4.

Carmichael finished 2-for-3 at the plate, while Frederick was 2-for-4 and John Spikerman 2-for-5. Spikerman raised his season average to .476, while Carmichael raised his to .442.

OU needed all of it as the Shockers hit home runs in the sixth and the ninth innings to account for all three runs.

Meanwhile, Will Carsten gave Skip Johnson three shutout innings (one hit allowed, one strikeout) and Grant Stevens (1-0) picked up his first win of the season with 2 2/3 innings of relief. Stevens scattered four hits and a walk and was tagged with one of the sixth inning runs.

Six relief pitchers followed, including Jace Miner, who struck out two Shockers in the eighth, and Malachi Witherspoon, who gave up the second home run but finished strong with a strikeout and a groundout to record his first save.

OU is back home this weekend as the Sooners open their final season in the Big 12 Conference with a three-game series against Central Florida.

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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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