Cowboys vs. Missouri State (Midweek)

[Northwoods Cowboy]

Game 12: Missouri State • March 3 / 4 p.m. • Stillwater, Oklahoma • O'Brate Stadium (8,000)​

OKLAHOMA STATE COWBOYS
8-3 overall (0-0 Big 12)

National Ranking: n/a • NCAA RPI: 36
Streak: Won 7 • H: 4-0 • A: 3-1 • N: 1-2
Head Coach: Josh Holliday, 14th Season at OSU (483-266-2)

MISSOURI STATE BEARS
7-4 overall (0-0 Conference USA)

National Ranking: n/a • NCAA RPI: 7
Streak: Won 4 • H: 4-0 • A: 3-4 • N: 0-0
Head Coach: Joey Hawkins, 2nd Season at MSU (37-29)

TV: ESPN+ (Adam Hildebrandt & Tom Holliday)
Radio: Cowboy Radio Network & The Varsity Network App 93.7 KSPI FM okla.state/GetVarsity (Rex Holt & Dave Holliday)
Stats: okstate.statbroadcast.com
X: @osubaseball (in-game scoreboard/updates)
Series: Cowboys lead, 22-10
Last: 4/1/25 in Springfield; Bears won, 10-8

• Oklahoma State continues midweek action with its fifth game of a nine-game homestand Tuesday afternoon against Missouri State at O'Brate Stadium.
• The Pokes are 8-3 on the season, the second-best record in the Big 12, and riding a seven-game winning streak. OSU is coming off a three-game series sweep of Sam Houston.
• OSU's winning streak is tied for the fourth-longest of the Josh Holliday head coaching era and the longest for the Cowboys since winning seven in a row in 2023 (4/16 to 4/30).
• The Holliday-led Pokes won 14-straight games in 2020-21 (last five games of COVID shortened '20 season and first nine of '21) and have posted 12 consecutive wins twice - in 2023 (2/26-3/14) and 2014 (4/26-5/16).
• The 2026 season marks OSU's 14th under the direction of Holliday, who is 17 wins shy of 500 for his career.
• In the first official NCAA RPI of the season, OSU is 36th, while Missouri State checks in at No. 7.
• Missouri State is 7-4 and on a four-game winning streak of its own after a weekend series sweep at home against Little Rock.
• The Bears own a .280 team batting average, while the pitching staff sports a 5.02 ERA.
• Joey Hawkins owns a career 37-29 record in his second season at his alma mater, where he was a shortstop for the Bears from 2012-15.

 

[TrevBW11]

Any idea who we are throwing today?

 

[JRod]

MO State is 7 in the RPI? Wow

 

[SanditeCowboy]

Any idea who we are throwing today?

Looks like Fyke.

 

[cowboyinexile]

MO State is 7 in the RPI? Wow

Yeah. How?

 

[cowboyinexile]

MO State is 7 in the RPI? Wow

Looking at their record, the only P4 school they played was Mississippi and they got swept. Won a series against Louisiana. Beat ORU twice and swept Little Rock.

Not sure how that translates into a top 10 RPI.

 

[Chairman of the Board]

T1
4-3 DP ends the first

 

[Chairman of the Board]

B1
Conover walks
--steals 2nd
Thompson K's looking on a fastball
--balk moves runner to third
Smithwick RBI single to LF, nice piece of hitting
Pomeroy FC, runner out at 2nd
Bruegge skies out to LF



1-0 OSU

 

[SanditeCowboy]

Looking at their record, the only P4 school they played was Mississippi and they got swept. Won a series against Louisiana. Beat ORU twice and swept Little Rock.

Not sure how that translates into a top 10 RPI.

RPI can be easily skewed this early in the year with such a small sample size...

 

[SanditeCowboy]

Poor defense there from Shull, not his normal position but still.

 

[Chairman of the Board]

T2
Runner reaches on error at SS
Groundout to 3B, Bruegge makes a diving save at 1B, runner to 3rd
Strikeout swinging. Nasty curve
Run scores on error by Shull, I know he doesn't play there, but man he ole'd that
Bloop single, runners to 2nd and 3rd after throw to 3rd
Striikeout swinging

1-1
Fyke looked good, deserved better

 

[JRod]

RPI can be easily skewed this early in the year with such a small sample size...

True, but what in their small sample size points to top ten? Were they ranked highly pre-season?

 

[SanditeCowboy]

Good job by Fyke working around some poor defense.

 

[JRod]

Hopefully we tighten things up. Giving away some free bases on defense. Fyke is looking good though.

 

[SanditeCowboy]

True, but what in their small sample size points to top ten? Were they ranked highly pre-season?

Yeah, I agree it doesn't make sense but that's is why we can't take RPI seriously this early in the season.

 

[Chairman of the Board]

B2
New pitcher

Wallace pops out to shallow CF
Wentworth K's looking
Bowen lines a single to CF
Shull strikes out swinging. He's 1-17 this year

 

[JRod]

Shull not finding it so far this year.

 

[Chairman of the Board]

T3
Strikeout looking
Groundout to 1B
Single down LF line
Bloop single to CF, runner out by a mile trying to score from 1st

 

[SanditeCowboy]

Nice throw from center field after the miscommunication on picking up the ball there.

 

[Edmondcowboy]

What’s the word on Meola, Ritchie, and Norman.