{"id":265838,"date":"2026-04-25T12:06:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/265838\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T12:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:06:24","slug":"cowboy-baseball-routs-texas-tech-in-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/265838\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboy Baseball Routs Texas Tech In Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUBBOCK, Texas\u00a0\u2013 Oklahoma State run-ruled Texas Tech in seven innings Friday at Rip Griffin Park, opening the weekend series with a 16-6 victory.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWith the win, the Cowboys improved to 26-16 overall and 9-10 in Big 12 play, while TTU is now 22-20 and 6-13 in the league. It marked OSU&#8217;s second consecutive run-rule triumph and seventh of the season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/okstate.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/aidan-meola\/13918\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13918\" target=\"_blank\">Aidan Meola<\/a> homered and drove in a career-high six runs on a career-best four hits for the Pokes, while <a href=\"https:\/\/okstate.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/sebastian-norman\/13945\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13945\" target=\"_blank\">Sebastian Norman<\/a> was 3-for-4 at the plate and also went deep while collecting three RBIs. <a href=\"https:\/\/okstate.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/alex-conover\/13915\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13915\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Conover<\/a> joined that duo with a three-hit day.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/okstate.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/ethan-lund\/13917\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13917\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan Lund<\/a> picked up the win on the mound to improve to 4-1. The southpaw worked six innings and struck out four while allowing five runs on 10 hits.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOSU jumped out to an early lead in the first inning. Conover drew a walk to lead off the game, and after advancing to third on a balk and groundout, he scored on a single by Meola to put the Pokes up 1-0.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Red Raiders tied the game with a two-out hit of their own in the bottom of the inning, getting a double off the wall in left field to knot things at 1-1.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Cowboys wasted no time going back on top. Norman led off the second inning with a single, and <a href=\"https:\/\/okstate.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/garrett-shull\/13924\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13924\" target=\"_blank\">Garrett Shull<\/a> followed with a two-run home run over the wall in right-center field. The blast was Shull&#8217;s ninth of the season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOSU continued to light up the scoreboard in the third. <a href=\"https:\/\/okstate.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/campbell-smithwick\/13932\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13932\" target=\"_blank\">Campbell Smithwick<\/a> got the scoring started with an RBI single to plate the Cowboys&#8217; fourth run, and Norman crushed a three-run homer to left to extend the advantage to 7-1.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe visitors were far from done. An RBI single by Ritchie made the score 8-1 before Meola stepped to the plate and delivered a grand slam over the left-field wall.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLeading 13-5, OSU put the game away in the seventh. With the bases full of Cowboys and one out, Meola singled to bring home a run, and Smithwick followed with a two-RBI double into the left-center field gap to push the lead to 11.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Red Raiders managed their final run in the bottom of the frame against reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/okstate.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/kai-fyke\/13929\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13929\" target=\"_blank\">Kai Fyke<\/a>, who struck out two in his lone inning of work.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe two teams return to action Saturday at 1 p.m.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas\u00a0\u2013 Oklahoma State run-ruled Texas Tech in seven innings Friday at Rip Griffin Park, opening the weekend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-265838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-texas","9":"tag-texas-headlines","10":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}