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Texas Tech Earns First Ever Sweep of Oklahoma State
May 06, 2007 | Softball
May 6, 2007
STILLWATER, Okla. - Texas Tech's dramatic 5-4 come-from-behind win over Oklahoma State improves the team's seeding for the Big 12 Tournament to No. 8 and gives head coach Teresa Wilson career win No. 799. Tech improves to 21-26, 4-12 on the season while Oklahoma State finished the regular season at 24-32, 3-15. The pair of teams will meet again Thursday in the Big 12 tournament at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium as Oklahoma State will be the 9 seed. The game is set for 5 p.m.
Jennifer Corkin and Brandy Moulin, hitting in the Nos. 4 and 5 spots, respectively, gave the Red Raiders all the power they needed as, down 4-0, Moulin's 5th inning 3-run home run lifted Tech's spirits and Corkin's pair of RBIs in the 7th, provided both the tying and winning runs.
For the second consecutive day, Sarah Losleben (7-11) picked up the win as the junior hurler came in with one out in the fourth inning after freshman Ashly Jacobs was roughed up a bit, leaving with two runners on and after giving up six hits through three and a third innings of work. Losleben was greeted by a 3-run home run by Jenna Harmison and the Red Raiders seemed deflated. In fact, in the bottom of the fourth Oklahoma State star, catcher Courtney Totte, stood in with the bases loaded and the chance to put the game out of reach for the Cowgirls. (Totte holds the single-season all-time home run record for OSU.) Losbleben's biting changeup induced a line-drive out and then Losleben got clean up hitter Krystle Sanchez out to end the inning.
Third baseman Moulin, came up in the top of the fifth with a pair of runners on and drilled an inside curve over the fence in right center field, to bring Tech within one, 4-3. While the Red Raiders were slower to the offense than the previous day, the team was hitting the ball solidly in early innings, but -- as they say -- right at people.
Ashley Parker and Corkin both had two hit games, and Devin Zaragoza, Jennifer Bowers and Alex Watkins added hits to the barrage, Watkins' in a pinch-hitting role late in the game.
It had been since April 7, 2002 since the Red Raiders beat the Cowgirls at all and never has the team swept Oklahoma State in Big 12 play.
This year's Big 12 tournament is a single elimination tournament with the Nos. 7 through 10 seeds squaring off (7 vs. 10, 8 vs. 9) on Thursday evening at 5 p.m. at the Don E. Porter, ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City. Following that game, conference honors will be awarded in a post-game ceremony. The tournament will continue Friday and Saturday with the winner claiming the Big 12's automatic berth into postseason.
Tech games will be broadcast via the Internet and local radio in Lubbock.
