ROUND ROCK, Texas In a college baseball game on Saturday, the No. 7 Oregon State Beavers take on the Oklahoma Sooners at Dell Diamond in Round Rock, Texas.
Two p.m. is the scheduled time for the first pitch.
Oregon State defeated No. 2 Virginia 7-2 on Friday night to record a decisive victory in their Round Rock Classic debut. With 13 hits and eight walks, the Beavers outscored the Cavaliers’ pitching, and OSU’s pitching staff was led by Nelson Keljo and Eric Segura.
The dominance of right-hander Kyson Witherspoon, who struck out a career-high 12 batters and gave up just three hits in seven innings, helped the Sooners win Friday as well, beating Minnesota 3-2.
Malachi Witherspoon, his twin brother, is expected to start the game against the Beavers.
The following information relates to today’s game:
Oklahoma Sooners (4-0) vs. No. 7 Oregon State Beavers (5-0)
When: Saturday, February 22, 2 p.m. PT
Where: Round Rock, Texas’ Dell Diamond
TV channel: There is no broadcast of the game.
How to watch the live stream online: D1Baseball will broadcast the game live through Peak Events. For a direct access to the game, go to osubeavers.com and click on the baseball schedule. For more information about subscriptions, visit D1baseball.
Radio: Beaver Sports Network broadcasts every game. The Varsity Radio Network broadcasts the pregame live from any location thirty minutes prior to the first pitch. KLAD 104.3-FM & 960-AM (Klamath Falls), KCFM 103.1-FM (Mapleton), KEJO 93.7-FM & 1240-AM (Corvallis), KKNX 105.1-FM & 840-AM (Eugene), KCFM 104.1-FM & 1250-AM & 104.1-FM (Florence), KTMT 96.1-FM & 580-AM (Medford), KCMX 880-AM (Medford), KCMX 99.5-FM (Phoenix), KEX 1190-AM (Portland), KSKR 1490-AM (Roseburg), and KBZY 1490-AM (Salem) are local affiliates.
OSU RHP Dax Whitney (1-0, 0.00 ERA) vs. OU RHP Malachi Witherspoon (1-0, 1.80 ERA) are the likely starts.
That and this:Oklahoma and Oregon State are playing for the first time since 2015 and for the tenth time overall. In the series’ nine meetings thus far, the Sooners have prevailed six times. … Oregon State and Oklahoma were among 42 teams with perfect records going into the weekend. … This is Whitney’s second career start and his first since throwing five scoreless innings in a victory over UNLV. Whitney is a 6-foot-5 freshman from Blackfoot, Idaho. He was named Perfect Game National Pitcher of the Week after his debut, which had eight strikeouts and four hits. … In the Mitch Canham era, Oregon State’s victory over Virginia was the fifth over a top 10 team and the 24th against a top 25 team. … This season, the Beavers have outscored opponents 55-11, or an average margin of 8.8 runs, which is good for 12th place in the country. … The Beavers’ lineup has produced at least 10 hits in each of the last four games and is averaging 12.8 hits per game with a.364 batting average. Trent Caraway, Tyce Peterson, and Aiva Arquette are three OSU players who enter today’s game on a five-game hit streak. … Through five games, Oregon State’s four-man starting rotation has compiled 25 strikeouts and has given up 10 hits. … The Sooners outscored the Mountain Hawks 36-7 in their three-game home sweep of Lehigh to start the season. This season, Oklahoma has 19 extra-base hits, including five home runs, and is hitting.341. … Easton Carmichael, a junior catcher for the Sooners, is batting and was on the Golden Spikes preseason watch list.429 with eight RBIs, two doubles, one triple, and two home runs. Although Oklahoma is placed in the top 25 in two of the five major college baseball polls, it is not included in The Oregonian/OregonLive’s D1Baseball Top 25 rankings.
The projected lineup for OSU S
Trent Caraway, third base
2. Arquette, Aiva, SS
3. LF Gavin Turley
4. The CF Dallas Macias
5. 1B Jacob Krieg
6. Wilson Weber, C.
7. DH, Tyce Peterson
8. RF Easton Talt
9. 2B AJ Singer
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