May 16, 1999

Box Score

LUBBOCK, Texas - Oklahoma State overcame a 9-8 deficit with a four-run eighth inning and held on for a 12-11 victory against Texas Tech Sunday at Dan Law Field. The game wraps up the regular season for both teams as Texas Tech concludes with a 40-13 overall and 18-8 Big 12 record while Oklahoma State is 40-15 overall and 18-9 in the conference.

Win or lose, Texas Tech would have been the No. 3 seed upon entering the Big 12 Conference baseball tournament in Oklahoma City from May 19-23. The No. 6 seed is Texas. Tech will play Texas (17-13 Big 12, 34-22) in the first round on Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the Ballpark in Bricktown.

Oklahoma State rallied from a 9-8 deficit to score four runs in the eighth inning. Back-to-back home runs from Billy Gasparino and Josh Holliday put the Cowboys up 12-9. But Texas Tech was not finished as the Red Raiders answered in the bottom of the eighth with a Josh Bard two-run homer, his second of the day. That was as close as the Red Raiders got as a groundout and double play finished off Tech.

Oklahoma State jumped out to a 8-5 lead after consecutive three-run innings in the fifth and sixth. Texas Tech came back to lead 9-8 with four runs of its own in the sixth when Josh Bard's grand slam put Tech back in the lead.

Bard led Texas Tech with a 3-4, two home run, three run and six RBI day. Marco Cunningham went 2-3 with two runs and Chaz Eiguren finished 1-3 with two RBI and a home run for Texas Tech, which only mustered nine hits.

Oklahoma State banged out 16 hits en route to its 12 runs. Billy Gasparino led the charge with a 2-5, four RBI and home run day, Chris Becerra added 3-5 and two-RBI hitting and Lamont Matthews, Jay McCullough and Jimbo McAuliff each had two hits apiece.

Rusty Rushing (1-1) earned the victory for Oklahoma State after going 3 1/3 innings and allowing three hits and two runs while Chris Sampson earned the loss after allowing the go-ahead runs in the eighth.

OKLAHOMA STATE 12 TEXAS TECH 11

Oklahoma State (18-9, 40-15)    010  133  040 - 12 16  3
Texas Tech (18-8, 40-13)        301  014  020 - 11  9  0

OSU: Krismer, Herrman (3), Bludau (5), Pearson (6) and Rushing (6) and Budde and Haggard.  
TTU: Tracey, Stewart (5), Allison (6), Sampson (7) and Roberson (8) and Bard. 

WP: Rushing 1-1.  
LP: Sampson 2-2.  
Save: None. 

Doubles: OSU- Gautreax (9), Gasparino (18), McCullough (11), McAuliff (6). 
         TTU- Cunningham (15), Bard (27), Woodcock (8).  Triples: Becerra (3).  

Home Runs: OSU- Gasparino (22), Holliday (14), McAuliff (6).  
           TTU- Bard 2 (12), Eiguren (6).  

Time: 3:15.  
Att: 4512.