FROM STAFF REPORTS

NORMAN, Okla. – Andrew Doyle tossed eight shutout innings, and Texas Tech’s road woes continued as No. 11 Oklahoma blanked the Red Raiders, 6-0, to open a three-game Big 12 Conference series at L. Dale Mitchell Park.

Doyle held the Red Raiders (15-21, 6-7) to just six hits, walking three and striking out four to improve to 5-2 on the year. It is the second time in the last three games the Red Raiders have been shut out and the second straight shutout for the Sooners, who blanked Wichita State 15-0 on Wednesday.

Texas Tech starter Brian Cloud, making just his second career start, took the loss. Cloud (2-3) surrendered five runs on nine hits and three walks with three strikeouts over 42/3 innings. Tech pitchers as a whole gave up 13 hits to a Sooner club that leads the Big 12 with a .341 batting average.

The loss by Tech is its ninth in its last 10 Big 12 games against the Sooners (27-7, 7-3), and the Red Raiders have now lost 10 of their last 12 games on the Sooners’ home field.

Freshman designated hitter Scott LeJeune and sophomore catcher Jeremy Mayo combined for five of Tech’s seven hits. LeJeune had a pair of doubles while Mayo had two hits and a walk. Joey Kenworthy and pinch-hitter Kevin Whitehead had Tech’s other two hits.

The Sooners opened the scoring in the second when Garrett Buechele ripped a one-out single up the middle to score J.T. Wise with the first run of the game. OU pushed it to 3-0 one inning later on a two-out, run-scoring single to left by Bryant Hernandez, who entered the game as the top hitter in the conference with a .433 batting average, and an RBI double to left by Aaron Baker.

A Buechele single between walks to Cameron Seitzer and Chris Ellison loaded the bases for Oklahoma in the fourth, but Tech held the Sooners to just one run on a Matt Harughty sacrifice fly. Buechele then made it 5-0 in the fifth with his third hit of the night, an RBI single to right that scored Baker from third.

Wise made it 6-0 when he crushed a one-out pitch from reliever Cory Large over the field in left for his team-leading 11th home run of the season.

No. 11 OKLAHOMA 6, TEXAS TECH 0

TEXAS TECH OKLAHOMA

ab r h bi ab r h bi

Reed lf 3 0 0 0 JJohnson cf 5 0 1 0

Kenworthy ss 5 0 1 0 CJohnson lf 4 0 0 0

Richburg 1b 4 0 0 0 Hernandez ss 5 1 2 1

LeJeune dh 4 0 3 0 Baker 1b 4 1 2 1

Ashby cf 4 0 0 0 Wise c 4 2 2 1

Berry 3b 4 0 0 0 Seitzer dh 0 1 0 0

Totten 2b 3 0 0 0 Seng pr 1 0 1 0

Macnoll rf 2 0 0 0 Buechele 3b 4 0 4 2

Leslie ph 1 0 0 0 Ellison rf 1 0 0 0

Brown rf 0 0 0 0 Herren ph/rf 2 0 0 0

Whitehead ph 1 0 1 0 Harughty 2b 3 1 1 1

Mayo c 3 0 2 0

Totals 34 0 7 0 Totals 33 6 13 6

Texas Tech 000 000 000 – 0

Oklahoma 012 110 10x – 6

E – Brown (2), Harughty (5). DP – Texas Tech 1, Oklahoma 1. LOB – Texas Tech 11, Oklahoma 9. 2B – LeJeune 2(5), Baker (10), Harughty (5). HR – Wise (12). SH – Seitzer (2). SF – Harughty (2). SB – CJohnson (7), Baker 2(5), Harughty (9). CS – Seng (1).

IP H R ER BB SO

Texas Tech

Cloud (L, 2-3) 42/3 9 5 5 3 3

Large 2 4 1 1 0 1

Monreal 11/3 0 0 0 1 0

Oklahoma

Doyle (W, 5-2) 8 6 0 0 3 4

Semler 1 1 0 0 1 1

WP – Doyle (4). PB – Wise (5). U – Coskey, Yeast, Alexander. T – 2:47. A – 1,220. Records: Texas Tech 15-21, 6-7; Oklahoma 27-7, 7-3.