Baylor
Oklahoma St
Baylor Pounds Oklahoma State, 13-1
7/31/2000 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Feb. 26, 2000
WACO, Texas - After losing a nailbiter to Oklahoma State in the first game of the doubleheader, the Baylor bats responded with their biggest offensive output of the season thus far, beating OSU 13-1 in a run-rule shortened seven inning game.
Kyle Evans (4-0) went the distance for Baylor (10-3, 1-1 Big 12), allowing just one run on six hits and notching seven strikeouts. Josh Merrigan (2-2) took the loss for the Cowboys (7-4, 1-1 Big 12), allowing four earned runs in three innings.
The Cowboys jumped in front early, scoring their lone run in the first inning when leadoff hitter Carlos Gautreaux doubled, went to third on a groundout, and scored on a single by first baseman Luke Scott. Scott was thrown out trying to stretch his hit to a double, and OSU would not score again.
Baylor took the lead in the second, as Mike Huggins, Steve Dorneman, and Matt Williams each singled to start the inning. Huggins scored when the centerfielder bobbled the ball on Dorneman's hit, and Dorneman scored on a sac fly by Bryan Loeb.
Ross Bennett led off the third for the Bears with a triple when the leftfielder lost the ball in the lights and it went to the wall. Jace Brewer drove Bennett in with a single two batters later.
The Baylor bats exploded in the fourth for five runs. Preston Underdown and Jace Brewer each knocked in a pair of runs with singles as the Bears batted around.
The game was called due to the 12-run rule in the seventh as the Bears scored five more runs. Dorneman hit a three-run homer, driving in Brewer and Huggins, and Bennett followed four batters later with a two-run double.
Dorneman had three hits in his four at-bats, scoring three times and knocking in three. Bennett finished the day 3-for-5 with two RBI and two runs scored, and Brewer was 2-for-2 with a pair of walks and three RBI.
The two teams square off once more Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Baylor Ballpark.
