Oklahoma adds series at Corpus Christi

The Sooners' season opener is altered again and will take place Saturday in South Texas

John E. Hoover | Feb 18, 2021

Oklahoma will try again — this time in South Texas.

After inclement winter weather forced two scheduled series to be canceled, the OU baseball team has added a three-game series at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi this weekend.

The Sooners and Islanders will play a single game at 1 p.m. Saturday and a doubleheader beginning at noon Sunday at Chapman Field on A&M-Corpus Christi’s campus. Sunday’s doubleheader will be a seven-inning game followed by a nine-inning game.

Winter weather and resulting complications canceled OU’s originally scheduled series against Southern in Norman, and then a series against Wichita State that was set to take place in Round Rock, TX.

Oklahoma and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi have played six times, most recently in 2018 when the Sooners won three of four games in Norman. OU leads the all-time series, 5-1.

Published Feb 18, 2021

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.