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.
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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