NORMAN, Okla. — Young arms shined yet again Saturday for the Santa Clara University baseball team, with 3 2/3 innings of shutout relief thrown by two true freshmen and a sophomore, but host No. 14/10 Oklahoma scored early and had some strong pitching performances of its own in a series-clinching, 8-0 win at Kimrey Family Stadium.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• Redshirt sophomore righty Tyler Alleman entered in the fourth and settled things down after the Sooners (13-2) had scored four runs in the first three innings. Alleman allowed an inherited runner to score, but then he retired three in a row and stranded two runners in the fifth with an inning-ending strikeout. Alleman's final line included only one hit and two strikeouts in 1 1/3 shutout innings.
   
• Freshman classmates Trevor Banning and Max Reimers combined to throw scoreless seventh and eighth innings. Banning walked one but didn't allow a hit in the seventh, and Reimers threw a 1-2-3 eighth with a strikeout, the first of his career.
   
• Andrew Rayment went 1 for 2 with the Broncos' only extra-base hit, a leadoff double in the third. Ben Cleary, Luke Devine and Waylon Walsh also had base hits. Oklahoma starter LJ Mercurius was lights-out, facing only two over the minimum over six shutout innings, striking out six and walking none. Mason Bixby, Nate Smithburg and Drew Rerick all threw single shutout innings of relief to close the game out.
   
• Oklahoma took a 3-0 lead in the second inning with two RBI doubles and pushed its lead to 4-0 in the third on a sacrifice fly. It added an RBI single in the fourth, then scored three insurance runs in the sixth on three separate RBI base hits.

NOTABLE NUMBERS

• 8: Cleary extended his hitting streak to eight games Saturday. It's tied for the longest streak of the 2026 season after Thomas Ferroggiaro started the year with an eight-game streak.

COMING UP

• The series finale is scheduled for 11 a.m. PDT on Sunday. Fans can find all live coverage links on SantaClaraBroncos.com.