For several of their Big 12 Baseball series this season, the song has been the same for the Kansas State Wildcats, win the first game of the series then lose the next two.

The scenario played out in earlier series this season against Oklahoma State, West Virginia and Texas Tech and as it turns out, the same result occurred against Oklahoma in their last home series of the season.

After a 5-0 win Friday night behind a complete game by Nate Griep, the Bat Cats fell in the middle game of the series Saturday 5-3 and then on Sunday, the Sooners bolted out to a 4-0 lead and hung on for a 4-3 victory before an announced crowd of 2,514 at Tointon Family Stadium.

After the start of the game was delayed 86 minutes by rain, the Sooners jumped on starting and losing pitcher Colton Kalmus (1-4) for three first inning runs. They would plate another tally in the fourth inning off Jordan Floyd who came in for Kalmus with two outs in the top of the second inning.

K-State however, would not go quietly as the Wildcats got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the fifth when Shane Conlon reached on an error by Oklahoma Pitcher Alec Hansen (5-5) after Hansen missed the bag while covering first base allowing Carter Yagi to score. K-State would trim the Sooners’ lead to one run with a pair of runs in the sixth on RBI singles by Alex Bee and Yagi.

Yet K-State was unable to score further and ended up leaving 10 men on base. Tyler Moore who represented the winning run at the plate was called out on strikes to end the game with the tying run on third base.
Kansas State (24-27, 8-13) enters its final series of the regular season still with a legitimate shot at qualifying for the Big 12 Tournament which begins on May 20 in Tulsa, OK. K-State is currently tied for sixth with Baylor and owns the tie-breaker over the Bears and leads West Virginia and Kansas by a half game. The Mountaineers hold the tie-breaker over the Wildcats by virtue of their series win in Manhattan earlier this season.

K-State will travel to Lawrence to wrap up the regular season with a series against KU at Hoglund Ballpark May 15-17. Game times are 6 p.m. Friday, and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

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K-State stranded 12 runners including leaving the bases loaded in the 5th inning and the tying runs on the base in the 9th as 19th-ranked Texas Tech took the Big 12 series with a 4-1 victory on a drizzly raw afternoon at Tointon Family Stadium.

The Red Raiders took a 1-0 lead against Wildcat starter Nate Griep (3-2) on a wind-blown home run to right field by Tyler Neslony before K-State tied it in the bottom of the inning on a balk that allowed Tyler Moore to cross the plate. However, Tech would score a single run in the fourth and tack on two more in the sixth, more than enough for two Texas Tech relievers to battle out of late-inning jams to give the Red Raiders their 25th win of the season and ninth in conference play.

K-State for the third time in the last four Big 12 weekend series won the first game but dropped the next two and lost Sunday’s decision despite out-hitting Tech 10-9.

Kansas State (18-20, 5-10) begins a six-game road trip on Tuesday with a trip to Lincoln to take on Nebraska. The Cornhuskers won the first meeting between the two teams in Manhattan on April 7 5-4 in 10 innings. First Pitch at Hawks Field is set for 6:35 p.m.

Levi MaVorhis worked seven plus innings while Tyler Wolfe drove in three runs as Kansas State picked up its first Big 12 series win of the season with a 6-2 victory over third-ranked TCU before 2,554 Sunday afternoon at Tointon Family Stadium.

K-State got on the board in the bottom of the third inning on an RBI groundout by Wolfe, but the big inning was the fifth when the Wildcats loaded the bases with nobody out, chasing Horned Frogs starting pitcher Alex Young. K-State increased its lead to 3-0 when Wolfe reached on a fielder’s choice and Shane Conlon hit a sacrifice fly. Two more runs then scored on a triple by Max Brown who missed a chance to make it an inside the park homerun when he fell between third base and home plate and was tagged out by TCU catcher Evan Skoug.

Brown jumped to avoid the tag and some of his Wildcat teammates felt that Skoug was to aggressive on the play and some words were exchanged between the two teams before cooler heads prevailed.

K-State added another run in the seventh inning with a Wolfe double to center. MaVorhis (2-0) was relieved by Jackson Douglas in the eighth inning after the Horned Frogs put runners on base with a walk and a single which eventually led to TCU’s only runs of the game Corey Fischer finished things off by getting the final two outs of the game in the ninth.

Kansas State (16-18, 4-8) wins its first series against a Big 12 foe since defeating Baylor two out of three games April 17-19, 2014 at Tointon Family Stadium.

K-State’s homestand continues on Tuesday when Wichita State visits Tointon Family Stadium. First pitch is set for 6:30 p.m.

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Kyle Davis’ two-out double in the top of the ninth inning allowed West Virginia to earn a 3-2 victory over Kansas State Saturday in Big 12 Baseball action before 2,386 on a blustery, chilly afternoon at Tointon Family Stadium.

K-State, looking for its first Big 12 series win since last April 17-19 against Baylor jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning on Max Brown’s two-out RBI triple. However Mountaineer starting pitcher Chad Donato settled down after that and after a single in the second inning, did not allow another hit until the seventh. He was lifted for a reliever with one out in the eighth inning.

West Virginia scored a single run in the second inning and then tied the game in the sixth on a fielding error by K-State shortstop Tyler Wolfe.

The Wildcats had a golden opportunity in the bottom of the eighth to take the lead when Carter Yagi led off with a double and advanced to third base on a passed ball, however he was left stranded there and then the Mountaineers won the game on Davis’ double in the ninth.

Brandon Erickson (0-2) took the loss for K-State while Blake Smith picked up the win in relief recording four strikeouts.

Kansas State (13-16, 2-7) will return to Tointon Family Stadium to host 18th-ranked Nebraska on Tuesday. First pitch is set for 6:30 p.m.