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Published May 20, 2008 01:10 am - You won’t hear one complaint from the Sooners about their draw. There won’t be a team taking the field Wednesday any more excited. Starting over By John Shinn The Norman Transcript After Oklahoma coach Sunny Golloway and Oklahoma State coach Frank Anderson shook hands Sunday, Anderson asked Golloway what time the Big 12 Conference baseball coaches were having their pre-tournament meeting Monday.
Golloway had no answer. It hadn’t been an important topic to the Sooner coach. “I told him he needed to find a new source. It wasn’t something that I’d checked,” Golloway said. After all, OU didn’t even have a spot in the tournament until it recorded the final out of its 10-4 victory over the Cowboys. It will enter as the eighth seed and face top-seeded Texas A&M in the first day of pool play at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at Bricktown Ballpark. The Sooners face fourth-seeded Missouri at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and fifth-seeded Texas at 9 a.m. Saturday. It will be a brutal schedule for OU. The Sooners went 2-5 against those teams in the regular season and the Aggies, Tigers and Longhorns have all solidified themselves as participants in the NCAA Tournament. Only second-seeded Oklahoma State and third-seeded Nebraska have done that on the other side of the bracket. But you won’t hear one complaint from the Sooners about their draw. There won’t be a team taking the field Wednesday any more excited. “We get to start from scratch and see what happens,” shortstop Bryant Hernandez said. “The pressure is off.” In a lot of ways, it is. With each loss, the pressure just to get to the Big 12 tournament seem to build. Each missed opportunity took a toll. OU was left for dead after dropping the middle game of the Bedlam Series 11-1 Saturday night. It was the second straight loss and both came in similar fashion. Poor pitching and no timely hitting. Golloway made a shift in philosophy for the finale. Inserting Hernandez at shortstop, moving Mike Gosse from designated hitter to second base and putting Casey Johnson in left field were all in a quest to add more pop to the lineup. It worked. OU collected 16 hits against the Cowboys and took the pressure off freshman pitcher Ryan Duke. “We just went after it and it really worked out,” Golloway said. 
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