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OKLAHOMA CITY - Session two of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship is underway in Oklahoma City.

For the fourth time in the history of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship, all of the higher seeds won their opening-day games (2019, 2016, 1998 and 1997).

No. 1-seed Texas Tech outlasted No. 8 K-State, 7-4, and will face No. 4-seed West Virginia after the Mountaineers topped No. 5 Kansas, 12-8. In Division 2, No. 2 Baylor won 8-2 over No. 7 Oklahoma and No. 3 Oklahoma State beat No. 6 TCU, 5-2.

The action begins at 9 a.m. CT on Thursday, May 23 with a matchup between the Jayhawks and Wildcats followed by Oklahoma and TCU at 12:30 p.m. In the evening session, the Mountaineers face Texas Tech and Baylor takes on Oklahoma State. 

Game 3: No. 2 Baylor 8, No. 7 Oklahoma 2

Box Score - Quotes - Notes - Book - Highlights - Photos - Postgame Press Conference - Interview with Steve Rodriguez

No. 2-seed Baylor hit three home runs en route to an 8-2 victory over No. 7-seed Oklahoma in game three of the 2019 Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship.

BU starter Paul Dickens gave the Bears a solid 6.1 innings of work, allowing just one run on six scattered hits while striking out six and walking two.

The Baylor duo of juniors Shea Langeliers and Andy Thomas reached base a combined seven times in 10 plate appearances. The pair tallied a combined five RBI, each blasting a two-run home run to give the Bears a 4-0 lead through four innings.

In the bottom of the sixth, Baylor (34-15) scored three more runs as heads-up baserunning by senior Cole Haring accounted for the first run in the inning. Sophomore Nick Loftin then drove in a run with a single and later scored on a knock by Thomas, his third RBI of the game.

Oklahoma (33-22) plated its first run off a solo home run by junior Conor McKenna in the top of the seventh, but the Bears answered with a solo blast of their own from Haring in the bottom half to stay in front 8-1.

Junior Brady Lindsly collected an RBI double in the top of the eighth, but that would be all for the Sooners as Baylor’s junior righty Luke Boyd closed it out with 1.1 scoreless innings of relief.

Dickens (5-2) earned the win for the Bears while OU’s Cade Cavalli (5-3) was hit with the loss after allowing four runs on six hits in five innings.

Baylor moves on to square off against the winner of No. 3 Oklahoma State and No. 6 TCU on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. CT. The Sooners will face the loser of the Cowboys-Horned Frogs matchup Thursday at 12:30 p.m.

Game 4: No. 3 Oklahoma State 5, No. 6 TCU 2

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No. 3-seed Oklahoma State used a four-run sixth inning to break up a pitcher’s duel and go on to top No. 6-seed TCU, 5-2, in the nightcap of day one at the 2019 Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship.

Cowboys starter Parker Scott and Horned Frogs ace Nick Lodolo nearly matched each other frame for frame through the first five innings, as the score was tied 1-1 entering the sixth.

Lodolo had retired 10 Cowboys in a row, including a streak of eight consecutive strikeouts, before Oklahoma State junior Andrew Navigato snapped the deadlock with an RBI double. Senior Colin Simpson followed that up with a sacrifice fly and OSU junior Trevor Boone, the Big 12 leader in home runs, added another to his tally with a two-run shot that pushed the Cowboys’ lead to 5-1 through six innings.

Simpson hit an opposite-field solo bomb that opened the scoring back in the bottom of the second inning, while TCU junior Hunter Wolfe tagged a solo dinger of his own in the top of the third that had previously tied the score at 1-1.

The Cowboys (33-17) got six strong innings out of their sophomore lefty Scott, who allowed just the one run on four hits while striking out four. Lodolo struck out a whopping 12 batters in seven innings of work for the Horned Frogs (29-25), but allowed five runs on five hits.

TCU junior and Big 12 Newcomer of the Year Jake Guenther blasted a solo home run in the top of the ninth to get one back for the Horned Frogs, but that was all as OSU junior Ben Leeper struck out TCU pinch-hitter Alex Isola to end it.

Scott (3-1) picked up his third win of the season for OSU while Lodolo (6-5) was hit with the loss for TCU.

Oklahoma State will advance to play No. 2 Baylor Thursday at 7:30 p.m. while TCU will face off with No. 7 Oklahoma in an elimination game Thursday at 12:30 p.m.