Reynolds Stadium
N. Duck Street Stillwater OK 74078
STILLWATER -- A one-run, two-out lead vanished for BYU in the ninth inning Tuesday as Oklahoma State pulled out an 8-7 victory.
An infield error and a misjudged outfield fly opened the door for OSU's Cowboys to win the final home game of their regular season on a pair of unearned runs. The Cougars, now 29-18, gave a scare to OSU, who now improves to 35-15.
BYU's Matt Carson greeted the first pitch of reliever Kris Oakes with a three-run homer in the third inning. It was the 17th homer of the season for Carson, who leads the Mountain West Conference in that category.
After not allowing a baserunner the first two innings, Nate Fernley surrendered a lead-off walk and then Zack Cates hit his two-run homer. A left field single tied the game in the fourth inning, then Rob Watson hit a three-run homer to give the Cowboys a 6-3 lead.
Carson hit a two-run single in the sixth to tie the game at six-all thanks to four consecutive singles by Ty Haguewood, Lars Birkeland, Tyler Perry, and Doug Jackson.
Shane Belliston extended his hitting streak to 20 games off of reliever Joe Weaver, who had a 6-0 record with a 0.64 ERA. Belliston's eighth-inning single up the middle drove in Birkeland to make the score 7-6. Then Weaver and OSU elected to intentionally walk Carson to get out of the inning.
In the bottom of the eighth, Fernley, who didn't get a decision in the game, was replaced by James Ray. Ray retired the next two batters with two Cowboys left on base. He then got two more outs in the ninth before being replaced by Justin Su'a with two men on base.
BYU was scheduled to play a second game on Wednesday at Oklahoma State, but that contest has been replaced with a 4 p.m. CDT game at Oral Roberts. The BYU-ORU game can be heard live on the Internet at either www.kcfo.com or by clicking on the message board at www.goldeneagleathletics.com.
Oklahoma State BaseballBrigham Young at Oklahoma State
May 01, 2001 at Stillwater, Okla. (Reynolds Stadium)
Brigham Young 7 (29-18)
Name (Pos) AB R H RBI BB SO PO A LOB Avg
Jackson, Doug lf.......... 4 1 2 0 1 1 1 0 0
Belliston, Shane cf....... 4 1 2 1 1 1 4 0 0
Carson, Matt rf........... 4 1 2 5 1 0 2 0 0
Obrey, Kainoa 3b.......... 4 0 0 0 1 1 1 6 4
Wirrick, Michael 1b....... 3 0 0 0 0 2 5 1 2
Hiesland, Jeff ph......... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Law, Tim 1b............... 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
King, Seth ss............. 5 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 0
Haguewood, Ty dh.......... 4 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 0
Birkeland, Lars c......... 4 2 2 0 0 0 5 0 2
Perry, Tyler 2b........... 3 1 1 1 0 1 3 0 1
Fernley, Nate p........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0
Ray, James p.............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Su'a, Justin p............ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals.................... 36 7 12 7 5 8 26 10 9
Oklahoma State 8 (35-15)
Name (Pos) AB R H RBI BB SO PO A LOB Avg
McAuliff, Jimbo cf........ 5 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1
Brown, Nebasett 2b........ 5 1 2 0 0 0 1 3 0
Virgil, Jose dh........... 5 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0
Scott, Luke rf............ 2 1 0 0 3 1 2 0 0
Powell, Paul ss........... 4 0 1 1 0 0 3 5 1
Bollig, Jake lf........... 3 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0
Stanfield, Wyatt lf....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bouris, Brad ph........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
York, Roy ph/lf........... 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Watson, Rob c............. 3 2 1 3 1 0 9 0 2
Cates, Zach 3b............ 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
Kraft, Brian ph........... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Modami, Ali 1b............ 3 0 1 0 0 0 9 1 0
Oakes, Matt ph............ 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hawk, Shane p............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Oakes, Kris p............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
McCurdy, Nick p........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rew, Daniel p............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Weaver, Joe p............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Totals.................... 36 8 9 7 4 4 27 12 7
Score by innings: R H E
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Brigham Young 003 003 010 - 7 12 2
Oklahoma State 002 400 002 - 8 9 0
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Note: 2 outs, 3 runner(s) LOB when the game ended.
E - Obrey, King.
DP - Cowboys 1. LOB - Cougars 9, Cowboys 7.
2B - Virgil(12), Modami(4).
HR - Carson, Watson(7), Cates(2).
SB - Carson. CS - King.
SH - Perry, Powell(6).
Brigham Young IP H R ER BB SO AB BF ERA NP
Fernley, Nate....... 7.1 6 6 6 3 3 28 32 114
Ray, James.......... 1.1 1 2 0 0 1 6 6 26
Su'a, Justin........ 0.0 2 0 0 1 0 2 3 4
Oklahoma State IP H R ER BB SO AB BF ERA NP
Hawk, Shane......... 2.0 3 2 2 3 1 8 11 43
Oakes, Kris......... 2.0 2 1 1 1 1 7 9 21
McCurdy, Nick....... 2.0 5 3 3 0 3 11 11 36
Rew, Daniel......... 1.1 1 1 1 0 1 4 5 18
Weaver, Joe......... 1.2 1 0 0 1 2 6 7 22
Win - Weaver, J. 7-0. Loss - Ray 0-3. Save - None.
HBP - by Oakes, K. (Wirrick).
Umpires - Home:Ken McQueen 1st:Andy Eaves 3rd:Barry Eckstein
Start: 6:03 pm Time: 2:43 Attendance: 3036
Hawk faced 2 batters in the 3rd.
Su'a faced 3 batters in the 9th.
A pair of nationally ranked baseball teams start BYU's schedule this week as it ventures for only the third time to the Midwest in the regular season.
On Tuesday evening at 6 p.m. CDT the Cougars, 29-17, play a single game at Oklahoma State, 34-15, in Stillwater. On Wednesday afternoon at 4 p.m. CDT, BYU travels to play Oral Roberts University, 35-9, at Tulsa.
Nate Fernley, the nation's winningest pitcher at 12-2, will start the game at Oklahoma State, while freshman Scott Koffman, 2-0, may get the nod against ORU. Oklahoma State has been ranked throughout the season in the top 20 until recent weeks and checks in at No. 29 in at the latest Baseball Weekly/ESPN poll. ORU's Titans are ranked No. 30 in the latest Collegiate Baseball poll.
"We are facing two quality programs which will be a good measuring stick for us," said BYU Coach Vance Law. "It's nice to play a couple games like this outside of our conference."
The game with Oklahoma State can be heard live on the Internet at www.broadcast.com/sports/ncaa/OklahomaState/Baseball/
The Cougars are in first place by two games now in the Mountain West Conference with a 17-7 record after a three-game sweep of second-place San Diego State last weekend. SDSU is the only common opponent between BYU and Oklahoma State, who lost 16-2 to the Aztecs last February. BYU and ORU share Southern Utah as a common opponent and the Titans beat the T-Birds in four straight last month.
ORU has won 20 of its last 23 games, OSU has won nine of its last 13 games and BYU has won 14 of its last 17 games. BYU's Shane Belliston has a 19-game hitting streak. The Cougars have made four entries this season into the school record books, the latest being Michael Wirrick getting hit by 15 pitches this season.
Hawai'ians Doug Jackson and Kainoa Obrey continue to lead the Cougar bats with batting averages of .399 and .387, respectively. Obrey and Matt Carson lead BYU in hits with 67 and 66, respectively. Obrey has hit 16 doubles, while Carson leads the league with 16 home runs.
Ten Cougars had significant raises to their batting average, the most significant of which was Wirrick climbing from .337 to .364. BYU raised its team batting average from .311 to .321.
Three of BYU's freshman pitchers have undefeated records, Koffman and Jeff Mousser each at 2-0 and Justin Su'a at 3-0.
Two years ago BYU lost a pair of games at Oklahoma State and was scheduled to play a pair of games at OSU this season until the Cowboys ran into a quota problem. ORU was substituted to BYU's schedule in place of the second OSU game.
After the games in Oklahoma, BYU returns to league action with a three-game series this weekend at the Air Force Academy. Fernley is scheduled to pitch again on Saturday morning at AFA to start a doubleheader.
The Cougars close the home season on May 10-12 against UNLV.
