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SOONERS GET OFFENSIVE The OU offense has rejuvenated itself in the last five years, averaging seven-plus runs per game across the past five seasons. In 2010, OU scored 525 runs, the most since the 1998 campaign (606). In addition, for the first time since 2000, the Sooners recorded a team batting average over .300 in five consecutive seasons. Prior to the 1999 and 2000 seasons, OU enjoyed one of its best offensive seasons with a .335 team batting average. The 1998 Sooners also averaged more than nine runs per game that season. In 2010, OU hit .307 as a team (second best average in the Big 12 Conference) and ranked fifth in the league with a .287 average in Big 12 games. The Sooners had eight regular starters hit better than .300 throughout the 2010 season, including three with a mark of .330 or better. In addition, five Sooners finished with 10 or more homers (Garrett Buechele - 17, Cameron Seitzer - 16, Max White - 15, Tyler Ogle - 11 and Cody Reine - 10) for the first time since 1998. Junior Garrett Buechele, who was drafted following the 2010 season, was named an All-American after leading the Sooners in batting average (.359), homers (17) and RBIs (65). Each of the Sooners’ last 11 batting champions have been drafted professionally or signed as a free agent following the season. In addition, six of those 11 individuals were selected in the first 10 rounds of the draft, with J.T. Wise (5th round in 2009), Joe Dunigan (5th round in 2007) and Ryan Rohlinger (6th round in 2006) being the last three Sooners to hold that distinction.
CHRIS ELLISON Featured at the top of the order each of the last two seasons, Chris Ellison is a career .326 hitter in his 114 games played as a Sooner. The speedy center fielder also causes plenty of havoc for opposing teams with 24 stolen bases last season. The total was 20 more than what he recorded as a true freshman and the most by a Sooner since current Major Leaguer Reggie Willits (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim) swiped 37 in 2003.
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CAMERON SEITZER The junior first baseman has played in 103 games at OU, starting immediately as a true freshman. He has hit over. 300 in each of his first two years in the Crimson and Cream and ranked second on the team in 2010 with 16 home runs. The son of former MLB great, Kevin Seitzer, he will look to provide that same power and consistency in the middle of the order in 2011.
The number of combined runs scored since Coach Golloway’s return to Oklahoma in 2004. The Sooners plated 3009 runs in the previous seven years before his arrival.
525
The 2010 Sooners scored 525 runs en route to hosting the fourth NCAA Regional in the last seven years, the most runs scored since the 1998 OU team plated 606.
.323
In 2006, OU led the Big 12 in hitting with a .323 average, the highest for an OU squad since 1998 (.335). OU has hit over .300 in each of Golloway’s five full seasons at the helm with a .310 average, up 21 points from the previous five (.289).
.300
OU has hit over. 300 in Big 12 play in three of the last five years. Prior to the 2006 season, the Sooners also recorded clips of .300 or better in 2000, 1998 and 1997.
91
The Sooners hit over 100 home runs for the second time in program history last season with 105. The total is the most since the Sooners set a program record in 1998 with 114.
8
The number of regular starters who hit better than .300 throughout the 2010 season, including seven that return for the 2011 campaign.
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