2011 OU Baseball Guide

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CAREER BESTS and HIGHLIGHTS: • Hits ........................5, April 30, 2010 vs. KSU • Runs.......................4, March 22, 2009 @ KSU • RBI .........................5, April 30, 2010 vs. KSU • Hitting Streak.........19, April 1-May 8, 2010 • 2011 captain as voted on by teammates (second straight year) • Freshman All-American in 2009 and second team All-American in 2010

2010 [RS-SOPHOMORE]: Team captain ... Second team All-American (Baseball America) ... Third team All-Ameircan (coaches) ... First team All-District VI (coaches) ... Norman Regional All-Tournament team ... 2010 All-Big 12 first team (coaches) ... 2010 Oklahoman All-Big 12 Player of the Year ... All-Big 12 Tournament Team ... ... Academic All-Big 12 second team ... Second in Big 12 in homers (17) and ranked in the top five in hits, batting average, total bases, RBI and slugging percentage ... Nine of his 17 homers came with two outs ... Made 92 consecutive starts at 3B (all of ‘09 and first 29 of ’10) ... Hit safely in all but 12 games in 2010 ... Recorded first career grand-slam vs. Valpo ... Led OU in multi-hit games (30) and multiple-RBI games (17) ... Committed one error in last 50 games ... Collected hits in 35 of last 40 games ... Careerhigh 19-game hitting streak ended on May 9 (ninth longest in OU history) ... Included 10 multiple-hit games, five homers, 23 RBIs and a .391 batting average (34-for-87) ... Careerhigh five RBI and five hits on April 30 vs. KSU ... Named Big 12 Player of the Week (May 24) after hitting .538 w with five RBI in KU series ... ... Second double-digit hit streak of the season ended at 11 games at No. 1 Virginia in Super Regional ... Hit .457 (21-for-46) in that span.

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2009 [RRS-FRESHM M MAN]: Freshmaan All-Amerriican (Collegiate Baseball)l ... Big 12 Freshman of the Year, first at OU ... All-Big 112 second teeaam selection after leading Big 12 with a .396 batting average, 40 hits and a .4479 on-basee ppercentage in conference play ... Batting average in conference play was the highhest since Russsell Raley had a .400 clip in 2006 and is the seventh best mark in Big 12 play byy a Sooner .... SStarted all 63 games at third base while holding the league’s seventhbest baatting averagee at .353 and ranking eighth with 82 hits ... Committed just seven errors in the field fi ... Hit ssaffely in all but 14 games, including the Big 12’s fourth longest hitting streak of 15 gamees (second ( best on team) ... Hit .467 in that span with 28 hits, four homers and 166 RBI ... Had a sseason-high four hits in April 10 game against Texas Tech ... Drove in a seasonn-best four rrunns in March 22 game at Kansas State ... Ranked third on the team with 24 muultiple-hit gaam mes and fourth with 14 mulit-RBI performances. SUMM MER 2008: Played for the Palm SSprings Power in the Southern California Collegiate Baseball Association .... Played in 334 games g and batted .270 while finishing fourth on the team with 18 RBIs.. 20088 [FRESHM MAN]]: Redsshirted the seaso s on. HIGGH SCHOOL:: Threee-year letteerwinnner at Arlington Lamar High School under head coach Paul Kino ... Hit .430 his sennior yeear with 30 RBIs ... Posted a career .421 batting average with eight hom mers and 655 RBIs ... Named team captain his senior year ... Twice earned first team all--district and first tteam all-area honors (2005 and 2006). PERSONAL: Full name is Stteven GGarrett Buechele ... Born in Arlington, Texas ... Parents are Steve annd Nancy Buuechelee ... Has two younger brothers, Tanner and Shane, and two younger sissters, Jordann and AAmber ... Father played professional baseball for 11 seasons, 198519995 (Texas RRangerss, Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs) ... Selected in the 2010 MLB Draft in the 18th rouund (556 overall)by the Texas Rangers ... Multidisciplinary studies major. m

YEAR AVG. GP-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB SLG % BB HBP SO GDP OB % SF SH SB-SBA PO A E PCT. 2009 .353 63-63 232 41 82 14 1 4 40 110 .474 16 14 47 8 .424 2 10 1-2 37 99 7 .951 2010 .359 65-65 262 55 94 16 2 17 65 165 .630 20 19 51 3 .438 3 2 3-4 42 94 5 .965 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Total .353 128-128 494 96 176 30 3 21 105 275 .557 36 33 98 11 .431 5 12 4-6 79 193 12 .958

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