University of Oklahoma Athletics Department
NORMAN — In front of a single-game record crowd of 5,051 at L. Dale Mitchell Park, junior right-handed pitcher Kyson Witherspoon hurled a seven-inning complete-game shutout as No. 19 Oklahoma took the series over No. 17 Vanderbilt by a final of 14-0 in seven innings Saturday.
Witherspoon scattered just two hits in the contest while striking out six and walking none. The Sooner bats came alive with 14 runs on nine hits, nine walks and five hit by pitches.
OU went to work early and often, putting up crooked numbers in three of the six innings the team went to the plate. The Sooners (25-9, 7-7 SEC) raced out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning on a three-run home run from junior Easton Carmichael, his seventh of the year.
In the third, sophomore Dasan Harris brought in his first of three runs on the day with an RBI single to right field.
OU tied its biggest inning of the season with seven runs in the fourth. The flurry began with an RBI grounder from junior Dayton Tockey before a Vandy error allowed Carmichael to score. Harris then plated a pair with a single to left field, followed by a three-run home run off the bat of Dawson Willis. It was Willis’ fourth of the season and first since March 22 to push the score into run-rule territory at 11-0 after four.
The Sooners added one in the fifth and two in the sixth. In the bottom of the fifth, an RBI single to right center from sophomore Jaxon Willits pushed junior Trey Gambill home.
Carmichael continued his tear at the plate with his third triple of the season to score a pair of runs in the sixth and bring the final tally to 14-0.
The shutout was OU’s second of the season and the first complete-game shutout as a Sooner for Witherspoon (W, 6-2). The Sooners’ 14 runs was the second-highest scoring output of the season, narrowly behind a 15-run performance vs. Texas Southern (2/25).
With the win, OU took its third SEC series of the season and moved to 7-7 in conference play.
Harris and Carmichael paced OU at the plate with respective 3-for-4 and 2-for-4 days as Harris recorded a career-best three RBIs and Carmichael tied his career high with five runs batted in.
The teams meet for the series finale Sunday at 2 p.m. CT. The game can be seen via SECN+ and heard in Oklahoma on 99.3 FM/1400 AM The REF or nationwide on The Varsity Network app.
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