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Oklahoma State split the first two games of its series with 18th-ranked Kansas Saturday at O’Brate Stadium, winning the opener in run-rule fashion, 13-2 in eight innings, and dropping the second game, 13-3.
Read more: OSU splits games with KansasThe Cowboys are now 24-15 overall and 8-9 in Big 12 play, while KU is 28-11 and 13-4 in the conference. Sunday’s series rubber game will start at 1 p.m.
The series opener began Friday afternoon before inclement weather forced its suspension with two outs in the bottom of the third inning and OSU leading 6-2.
Play resumed Saturday, and the Cowboys built on their lead en route to snapping the Jayhawks’ 11-game hitting streak.
Ethan Lund started game one for the Pokes and worked three innings, striking out seven, walking none and giving up two runs before the game was halted.
OSU built its four-run lead on Friday courtesy of four home runs, getting two from Brock Thompson and adding round-trippers by Alex Conover and Garrett Shull.
Stormy Rhodes took the bump for the continuation of game one Saturday and earned the win to improve to 2-2. The righty shut out KU over the final five innings, striking out four and allowing only two hits.
Thompson, Conover, Aidan Meola and Campbell Smithwick all recorded multiple hits for the Cowboys in game one.
After resuming game one on Saturday, the Pokes put up a run in the sixth on an RBI single by Conover and added another in the seventh when Kollin Ritchie was hit by pitch and later scored on an RBI by Colin Brueggemann.
The Cowboys reached the 10-run rule when Smithwick blasted a three-run, walk-off homer that capped off a five-run eighth inning.
Mario Pesca started the second game of the series and dropped to 4-3 on the season after giving up seven runs on eight hits in four innings. He struck out five and walked four.
After falling behind 4-0 in the fourth, the Cowboys cut their deficit to one in the bottom of the inning on a three-run home run by Meola, his 10th bomb of the season.
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