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Sooners' late-season surge still going

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Sooners' late-season surge still going

Is Oklahoma's baseball team about to give Sooner Nation another run from nowhere?

Clay Horning
May 7, 2023
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Sooners' late-season surge still going

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Oklahoma’s Bryce Madron, above, staked the Sooners to a first-inning lead at West Virginia Saturday they did not relinquish in a 6-3 victory over the 12th-ranked Mountaineers. (SoonerSports.com photo)

Sooner baseball skipper Skip Johnson had this great quote on the back end of an April 1 victory over then-seventh-ranked Stanford, Oklahoma’s second in three games against the Cardinal with the series-ender slated for the next day.

“If it’s this series,” he said, “then it’s this series.”

Only it wasn’t that series.

The Sooners fell hard the next day and went 4-5 over their next nine games.

But maybe it’s this series, the one OU finds itself in now, with one game remaining at 14th-ranked West Virginia Sunday, a moved-up-for-weather 10 a.m. rubber-match you can watch on ESPN+.

Of course, should the Sooners win today, maybe “this series” will wind up being the one they already played in Austin April 21-23.

I can explain.

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