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No. 12 Oklahoma pounds Cincinnati for 7th straight win.

The No. 12 Sooners scored 14 runs on their way to a comfortable series-opening win over the Bearcats.

After a three-game sweep over Baylor in which they lit up the scoreboard throughout the weekend, No. 12 Oklahoma got back to action on Thursday with the first of a three-game set against Cincinnati at UC Baseball Stadium in Cincinnati, OH.

In the front end of a doubleheader, the Sooners (33-17, 22-6) did what has become commonplace this season: score a lot of runs on their way to a blowout win, this one by a final mark of 14-6.

OU didn’t waste much time getting on the board on Thursday afternoon, striking for a quick run in the top of the first on a Bryce Madron sacrifice fly that plated John Spikerman after he tripled to open the game.

After the Bearcats got that run back in the third to even things up, the Sooners would jump right back in the lead on a rocket solo home run by Michael Snyder. However, Cincinnati continued to fight back as they hit one of their own in the bottom half to knot the game back up at 2-2 through four.

That stayed the mark into the sixth, but that was when things would take a drastic turn in the crimson and cream’s direction. In the sixth and seventh innings, Oklahoma plated an astonishing 12 total runs.

Four of those came in the sixth on a Snyder RBI double, a Jackson Nicklaus sacrifice fly and two more runs scoring on a balk and a defensive error. UC would get one back in the bottom half to send it to the seventh at 6-3.

OU then moved the game into total laugher territory in the seventh, as the Sooners went on a marathon run that saw them score eight runs on a Carmichael RBI double, an Anthony Mackenzie RBI single, a Jaxon Willits RBI fielder’s choice, another run scoring on a balk, a Jason Walk RBI knock, a Carmichael two-run hit and a Mackenzie bases loaded walk.

Relievers Carson Atwood, Reid Hensley and Jett Lodes would then team up to work the rest of the game, giving up a few runs but ultimately finishing the job on the comfortable victory. Braden Davis (8-3) earned his sixth straight win on the mound behind a very solid outing that saw him turn in six innings allowing just two hits, three earned runs and striking out six.

The win is Oklahoma’s seventh in a row and will now set them up to try and win another series in the nightcap. The second game of the doubleheader is set to begin shortly at UC Baseball Stadium.