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6 May 5, 2021 Sports Trojanettes OU baseball: Continued from page 5. fered over the fence for a walk Butler/District Game Three Emily Cantwell took the six more in the third. Canute picked up two in the bottom of the third. One off three run homer. Cantwell took the decision in seven innings of work. She scattered nine hits and issued Two Lady Indian runners came home in the top of the first before Canute pushed five over the plate in the bottom win in five innings. She al- lowed 12 hits with four walks and a strikeout. The defense made two errors. Canute bats Improbably, Trojanette run in the bottom of the sixth cut the deficit to 7-3. Canute then put together a seven run rally in the bottom seven walks without a strike- out. The defense committed four errors. At the plate the Trojanettes pounded out of the inning. Arapaho-Butler added three in the second and the Trojanettes scored one. Three more for the Lady were good for 20 hits includ- ing seven homers and drew three walks with no strike- outs. Kim Harris hammered Sooners of the seventh for the vic- tory. Singles from Jade Gray and Kelly Thompson came home on a Sydney Thrasher 16 hits with a walk and no strikeouts. They were assisted by three miscues. Thrasher tagged a pair of homers with Indians in the top of the third put them up 8-6 before Canute added one in the bottom of the frame. One Arapaho- three home runs with two from Warnke and one each by Kylee Smith and Sydney Thrasher. A triple also came off can't quite home run. Trailing 7-6, Kylee Smith delivered a double and Taylor Beutler walked. Emily Cantwell swatted a run scoring the game winner by Harris. Beutler, Cantwell, Smith, and Thrasher dinged a double apiece. Thrasher connected for Butler run in the fourth gave them a 9-7 margin. The Lady Indians did not score in the top of the fifth but the Thrasher’s bat. Smith delivered two doubles with one from Abby Janning. Harris and Warnke accounted for six RBI’s sweep Cowboys base hit to knot the game at five RBI’s with four from Har- Trojanettes rallied for 12 runs apiece. Janning had two with Clay Horning, The Norman Transcript 7-7. With two on base Kim ris and one by Cantwell. Harris behind four homers including one each by Cantwell, Madison Harris stepped to the plate also contributed a sacrifice fly. a Madison Warnke grand slam Church, Jerra Simpson, Smith, and took the second pitch of- Trojanettes/Arapaho- to post a run rule win. and Thrasher. NORMAN — Oklahoma may have resuscitated its baseball season, winning the Bedlam series for the first time since 2016. Yet, Sunday’s getaway game may nonetheless go down as the season’s biggest missed opportunity. Up two runs entering the top of the ninth, the Sooners came up short to the Cowboys, falling 8-7 in 12 innings. How OU lost wasn’t as dramatic as how it won Saturday’s middle game of the series, when closer Jason Ruffcorn threw 6 2/3 innings and more than 100 pitches, but may have been equally unlikely. Brandon Zaragoza, the dean of the Sooner infield, commit- ted two errors at his shortstop position, each one trying to get a double play started too quickly. Had those twin-killings happened, five of Oklahoma State’s runs would never have crossed the plate. Had Zaragoza simply gotten the first out in each instance, Caeden Trinkle’s three-run home run in the fourth inning would have been a two-run shot and Carson McCusker’s RBI single in the ninth would have plated the Cowboys first run of the frame, rather than the second and tying run. There was also the case of OU first baseman Tyler Hardman, who entered hitting .433, yet left at .418, going 0 for 6, striking out three times. Merritt Oilers of All that and OSU reliever Kale Davis, who took Saturday’s loss, allowing two runs over two innings in which he threw 34 pitches, earned Sunday’s victory, working 4 1/3 in which he struck out seven and threw 75 pitches. the Month The contest was not without another bold move from OU coach Skip Johnson, either. Though he’d hoped Carson Carter could nail down the save, 7th grade Preslie Taylor; 8th grade Vincent Rocha; 9th grade Olivia bringing him in to pitch the ninth inning, when Carter opened Reynolds; 10th grade Bryce Hamby; 11th grade Taylor Ford; 12th grade walking Trenkle and Max Hewitt, Johnson went to Plan B, Blakely Barnett. bringing in Wyatt Olds, who’d gotten Friday’s victory, allowing one hit over five innings, throwing 105 pitches. Blakely is the daughter of BJ and Susan Barnett, she is active in Had Zaragoza not committed his second error, Olds likely basketball, cheer, trap shooting, FFA, & 4-H, She plans to attend would have stranded both of the runners he inherited and been Western Ok State University as part of the shotgun shooting sports credited with his first save. team and plans to major in dentistry. Courtesy photo. OU’s failure to finish also meant the 4 1/3 scoreless innings thrown by Luke Taggart in relief of starter Braden Carmichael were in vain. Taggart entered in the fourth inning, following Zaragoza’s first error, Henkle’s home run and a free pass Carmichael issued to Hewitt. Olds needed three pitches to get Christian Encranacion- Strand to ground into a double play and only exited after strik- ing out seven, allowing two hits, no runs and walking one. Conor McKenna went 2 for 4 for OU, earning all three of his RBIs with a second-inning home run. Brett Squires connected for a solo shot in the same inning, marking his third home run in three days against OSU. Jimmy Crooks went 3 for 5, scored once and drove in a run. The Sooners fell to 22-20 and 6-9 against Big 12 competition. The Cowboys improved to 25-14-1 and 8-10. OU’s scheduled to play a non-conference contest against Texas Tech in Amarillo on Tuesday. Though it won’t matter in the standings, it could still have postseason implications. The Red Raiders are ranked No. 11 by the coaches and, though they lost Sunday, took two-of-three at No. 3 Texas over the weekend, a series victory that should only improve the No. 21 RPI they took to Austin. Friday, OU will begin a three-game set at West Virginia, hop- ing to sweep and get back to even in conference play. Do you have a Merritt Oilers of sports related photo the Month April from Elk City, 7th grade- Addison Darling; 8th grade- Caleb Stone; 9th grade- Madison Merritt or Canute? Robinson; 10th grade- Layton Freas (not pictured); 11th grade- Coby Skelton; 12 grade-Kandice Simpson (not in group picture) We would love to see them! Blakely is the daughter of BJ and Susan Barnett, she is active in Email your photo to basketball, cheer, trap shooting, FFA, & 4-H, She plans to attend Western Ok State University as part of the shotgun shooting sports [email protected] team and plans to major in dentistry. with a description! Courtesy photo.