Oklahoma baseball has now slotted in their third different opening weekend opponent in the last two days as it was announced Wednesday evening the Sooners will be hitting the road to do battle with Texas A&M-Corpus Christi for a three-game set beginning on Saturday.
Originally, Oklahoma was set to host Southern at L. Dale Mitchell Park for a three-game Friday-Sunday series to open the 2021 season. But, after severe winter weather has gone through the area they canceled that series in lieu of a series with Wichita State in Round Rock, Texas.
That series didn’t quite last 48 hours as it got the axe due to winter weather issues at the facilities the games were set to be held. Now, insert Texas A&M-Corpus Christi who also had their opening weekend games against UT-Arlington canceled.
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— Oklahoma Baseball (@OU_Baseball) February 18, 2021
The Sooners and Islanders will do battle three times in two days just as Oklahoma was slated to do against the Shockers, but it will be flipped with the double-header coming on Sunday starting at noon CT. The first game will be seven innings, with the second being a full nine. They will open things by playing a stand alone game on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. CT.
Now everyone sits back and hopes that third time is the charm here and the Sooners have finally found their season-opening opponent.
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