While recording 8-6 and 12-10 victories, Texas homered eight times over the course of a doubleheader at Oklahoma's L. Dale Mitchell Park on Sunday. With that doubleheader sweep of the 18th-ranked Sooners, Texas secured its sixth Big 12 series win.
The Longhorns have now won 13 of their 21 Big 12 games. Oklahoma, which remains the Big 12's first-place team, has a 15-6 mark in its conference contests.
Oklahoma State and West Virginia both are both 14-7 in conference play.
Due to Saturday's weather forecast, Texas and Oklahoma were forced to play twice on Sunday. That gave UT two opportunities to respond to OU's 9-4 win in Friday's series opener .
In the first half of Sunday's doubleheader, Texas snapped a five-game losing streak against its Red River rival. Heading into the sixth inning of that game, Texas trailed 5-4, but the Longhorns seized control of the scoreboard behind Kimble Schuessler and Will Gasparino's solo homers and a bases-loaded walk that was drawn by Peyton Powell.
After wrapping up that two-run triumph, Texas wasn't done hitting home runs.
Texas went deep six times in the second game of the doubleheader. Five of those homers were two-run shots. Max Belyeu homered twice in the game and Powell, Gasparino, Casey Borba and Rylan Galvan also blasted Oklahoma pitching.
Those six home runs tied a single-game record at UT. Texas has now had six six-homer games in its 129-year history. One of the previous power surges occurred this past Tuesday against UT-Arlington.
Sunday's second game was called after the seventh inning because of weather.
Texas will return to action Tuesday when it hosts Sam Houston State . Oklahoma State is set to visit UFCU Disch-Falk Field next weekend.
This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Texas beats No. 18 Oklahoma twice on Sunday to secure Red River Rivalry series win
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