The Xavier Musketeers’ stint in the 2017 NCAA Tournament got off to a bumpy start, as the Oklahoma Sooners thumped the Big East Tournament champions 7-2 to send the Musketeers to the elimination round.
OU put a whooping on Xavier in the seventh inning. Down 2-0, the Sooners proceeded to put up all seven runs they scored in the game in that very stanza. They sent 12 men to the plate and racked up all their runs with two outs in the inningg. A glut of them came on five consecutive singles that the Sooners picked up in the frame, with the first three coming after leftfielder Cade Harris brought them in with a bases-clearing double.