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Cowboys Clinch Series With 19-2 Rout Of Nebraska
Courtesy: okstate.com
Release: 04/12/2008
Neil Medchill was 4-for-4 with a pair of RBIs in Saturday's win.
STILLWATER, Okla. — Oklahoma State’s offense racked up 24 hits Saturday to propel the Cowboys to a 19-2 win over No. 6 Nebraska in front of a season-high 2,888 fans at Allie P. Reynolds Stadium.
Every player in OSU’s starting lineup collected at least two hits as the 20th-ranked Cowboys won their fifth-straight game and clinched their second-consecutive Big 12 Conference series win. The Cowboys are 8-6 in conference play and improved to 23-9 overall.
Sop re left fielder Neil Medchill led the Cowboys’ hit parade with a 4-for-4, two-RBI effort that saw him finish just a home run shy of hitting for the cycle.
Four Cowboys — Matt Hague, Luis Flores, Tyrone Hambly and Thomas Belza — each had three hits in the contest, while Rebel Ridling led OSU with four RBIs and smashed his team leading eighth home run of the season.
Tyler Lyons improved to 6-2 on the mound with his third complete game of the season. The sop re southpaw allowed just six hits while striking out five and became the first Cowboy hurler since Brae Wright in 2006 to toss back-to-back complete games.
Nebraska saw its streak of seven-straight Big 12 series wins come to an end as the Cornhuskers fell to 24-6-1 overall and 10-3-1 in league play. Thad Weber (6-2) suffered the loss after allowing seven runs on nine hits in 3.1 innings of work.
NU, which came into the series atop the Big 12 standings, took the game’s initial lead in the second inning on an RBI single by Bryce Nimmo.
The Cowboys tied the game in the bottom of the frame. Dean Green and Flores both singled, and after a sacrifice bunt by Medchill, Green scored on a passed ball by NU catcher Mitch Abeita.
The score remained 1-1 until the fourth when the Cowboys had the first of two huge offensive innings as they rallied for six runs on seven hits.
Four different Cowboys collected RBI singles in the frame, with Ridling, Hambly, Dabbs and Hague bringing home runs with base hits. OSU’s other two runs scored on wild pitches.
OSU erupted for an even bigger inning in the fifth as the Cowboys sent 10 batters to the plate and scored eight runs on eight hits.
Flores led off the rally with a double, and a sacrifice fly by Ridling made the score 8-1. A Belza double brought home a pair of runs, and back-to-back RBI hits by Michael Dabbs and Jordy Mercer pushed the OSU lead to double digits.
The Cowboys weren’t done as a Dean Green single made the score 13-1. Two batters later, Medchill tripled to plate OSU’s final two runs of the inning.
OSU will try and get its first conference sweep of the season Sunday at 1 p.m.
