Sooner Baseball Falls To UT Arlington

Oklahoma baseball suffered a 10-3 loss at the hands of UT Arlington Wednesday evening in Norman.

The loss for the No. 16 Sooners is only the second midweek loss at home for OU in the last four years.

"We're new and we're young and we have to develop an identity," said OU Head Coach Sunny Golloway. "It's not going to be the one that was revealed tonight. Unfortunately, you have to find a way to get a team's attention."

UT Arlington got on the board first in the fourth inning then in the fifth, Preston Beck hit a three-run homerun off of OU starter Jonathan Gray.

OU scored two runs in the seventh when Matt Oberste drove in the first run followed by Hunter Lockwood's RBI single.

Lockwood finished with a season-high four hits and leads the team with 11 RBI.

UTA's Kasey Merck improved to 1-1 in the start with six scoreless innings. He helped give the Mavericks their second win of the season over a ranked opponent.

The loss drops OU's overall record to 4-3 while UTA improved to 6-2. Gray took the loss despite a season-high five innings pitched. He allowed five runs off seven hits.

The Sooners are on the road for a three-game series at New Mexico with games beginning Friday at 7 p.m.