Cowboy Baseball Returns To Conference Action With First Trip To Utah

Games 20-22: Utah • March 21-23 • Salt Lake City, Utah • Smith's Ballpark (14,511)

OKLAHOMA STATE COWBOYS
10-8 overall (0-1 Big 12)

National Ranking: n/a • NCAA RPI: 69
Streak: Won 1 • H: 6-3 • A: 0-1 • N: 4-4
Head Coach: Josh Holliday, 13th Season at OSU (455-246-2)

UTAH UTES
11-8 overall (0-3 Big 12)

National Ranking: n/a • NCAA RPI: 89
Streak: Lost 5 • H: 0-0 • A: 9-8 • N: 2-0
Head Coach: Gary Henderson, 4th Season at Utah (92-89-2)
14th Season Overall (411-346-2)

TV: ESPN+ (Brian Preece, Karson Bodily, Jacob Suomi & Bill Kinneberg)
Radio: Cowboy Radio Network & The Varsity App Pete 94.3 FM / KSPI 780 AM okla.state/GetVarsity (Karsten Melton & Matt Davis)
Stats: okstate.statbroadcast.com
X: @osubaseball (in-game scoreboard/updates)
Series: Cowboys lead, 1-0
Last: 2/21/15 in Mesa, Ariz.; OSU won, 12-2

Oklahoma State is 10-8 and coming off a midweek win at home over North Dakota State. Three of the Cowboys last four scheduled games, all at home, were canceled; the first two games of the WVU series were lost due to wildfires in Stillwater and the second game vs. NDSU was scrapped due to weather conditions.

Up next, the Cowboys travel to Salt Lake City for a weekend conference series against Utah.

The Pokes own a .280 team batting average and .507 slugging percentage and are averaging just over eight runs per game. Colin Brueggemann leads OSU with a .389 batting average and 26 RBIs.

OSU's pitching staff sports a 3.79 ERA; it leads the Big 12 in strikeouts per nine innings (11.4) and is second in strikeout-to-walk ratio (3.54).

Utah is 11-8 overall and 0-3 in the Big 12 after being swept on the road at Kansas State on conference-opening weekend.

The Utes have yet to play at home this season; this week's midweek series against Northern Colorado was supposed to mark their home opener but it was canceled due to weather.

The Utes are hitting .297 as a team and averaging 6.5 runs per game. Core Jackson leads the lineup with a .421 batting average to go along with two homers and 16 RBIs.

Utah's pitching staff owns a 5.42 ERA and has tallied 139 strikeouts and 72 walks in 161.0 innings.

The only previous meeting between the two Cowboys and Utes came in 2015 at the Big 12/Pac-12 Challenge in Mesa, Ariz., with the Cowboys winning, 12-2.

Cowboy Baseball Returns To Conference Action With First Trip To Utah

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Colin Brueggemann

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Cowboy Baseball Returns To Conference Action With First Trip To Utah

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Colin Brueggemann

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