OSU Baseball: Cowboys Claim Series over GCU with Three-Straight Wins

The Cowboys were able to turn things around after a disappointing start.

Oklahoma State won its first series of 2026, topping Grand Canyon University three games to one, capped with a run-rule victory. This came after the Cowboys dropped the series opener to GCU 12-8 in Game 1 on Thursday. Here’s how things went down this weekend.

Game 2: OSU 9, GCU 1

After 20 total runs the day before, the Cowboys scored the game’s first run in the top of the third. Then they poured it on in the fourth and didn’t look back.

Following Sebastian Norman’s solo homer in the third, Terrance Bowen kicked off a deluge of runs in the fourth, highlighted by Remo Indomenico’s two-RBI triple.

After taking that a 6-1 lead, the Pokes added three more unanswered runs in the sixth before the Antelopes scored their second run in garbage time in the seventh. Hudson Barrett moved to 1-1 from the mound, pitching six innings and striking out nine while allowing zero runs.

Game 3: OSU 10, GCU 7

The Cowboys recorded 16 hits on Saturday, the most in any game in their young season.

After GCU went up 2-0 in the first, the Cowboys dropped another five-run inning, this time in the third. But the Lopes scored thrice later in the inning. OSU answered with four runs in the fourth and another in the sixth. GCU added two in the seventh to pull within 10-7.

Three Cowboys had three hits with TP Wentworth, Kollin Ritchie and Sebastian Norman combing to go 9-of-14. Kai Fyke moved to 1-0 on the year, pitching three innings and allowing no runs with nine batters faced. Mario Pesco got the start but allowed five runs and struck out three.

Game 4: OSU 13, GCU 2

The Cowboys finished the weekend with an exclamation point. Their five-run inning came in the first this time.

Aiden Meola’s single RBI got the Pokes on the board in the finale, but Colin Brueggemann drilled a three-run homer followed by another RBI by Alex Connover.

GCU’s Billy Scaldeferri broke it up with a solo homer in the third. But Meola answered with a grand slam in the fourth to make it 9-1.

Bases FOC. Bases no longer FOC.

Aidan Meola now has 5⃣ RBIs through four innings today#GoPokes | @aidanmeola1 pic.twitter.com/7oaDD1K1HG

— OSU Cowboy Baseball (@OSUBaseball) February 22, 2026

The Lopes added a run in the bottom of the fourth to make it 9-2. OSU added a run in the sixth and then put a cherry on top with three more in the seventh to enact the mercy rule.

At 4-3, the Pokes are now above .500 for the first time this season. They’ll look to extend their winning streak to four with a midweek matchup against Central Arkansas. OSU hosts the Bears at 4 p.m. Tuesday at O’Brate Stadium before next weekend’s home series versus Sam Houston.