The No. 17 baseball team won its fourth series during Big 12 play after taking two of three games from the Texas A&M Aggies in College Station, Texas, this weekend.

The Sooners (29-11, 8-8 Big 12) dropped the first game of the series 6-2, but rallied to win the final two games 6-5 and 10-2. The two victories move OU into fourth place in the Big 12 standings.

Head coach Sunny Golloway went with a different approach with the starting rotation after the team has had trouble securing Sunday victories. Coming into the series with the Aggies (22-16-1, 7-10-1 Big 12), OU was 0-4 in Sunday games during conference plays, so Golloway changed things up.

He moved junior pitchers Zach Neal and Bobby Shore, the usual Friday and Saturday starters, to the Saturday and Sunday games, and decided to go with senior pitcher J.R. Robinson, who had not started a Big 12 game this season, on Friday.

But the plan did not work according to plan.

Robinson (1-3, 5.08 ERA) and the Sooners did not leave the diamond Friday evening with a victory, but the left-handed pitcher had a decent outing. He lasted 6 2/3 innings and gave up five runs on eight hits.

Robinson allowed one run in the first, second and fourth innings before the Sooners struck with their only two runs of the game in the fifth inning. He settled until the seventh inning where he allowed two runners to reach base with two outs before he was pulled.

Senior pitcher Jeremy Erben came into the game and allowed a three-run home run to the first and only batter he faced. The Sooners could not come back from the four-run deficit.

The loss on Friday turned Saturday’s game into a must-win situation, and nine innings was not enough to determine a winner.

The Sooners trailed 5-3 entering the ninth inning, and sophomore third baseman Garrett Buechele drove in two runs to force extra innings, and sophomore first baseman Cameron Seitzer gave OU the lead with an RBI double in the 13th inning.

Junior pitcher Ryan Duke pitched 4 2/3 shutout innings, his longest outing of the season, to secure the victory and tie the series at one game apiece.

Shore gave Golloway the Sunday start he was hoping for when he decided to change around the rotation, and the team’s bats backed him with 10 runs on 11 hits. Shore gave up two runs on eight hits in seven innings.

OU scored four runs in the second inning and five runs in the fifth inning to leave no room for an Aggie comeback.

The Sooners will go for their 30th victory and will try to build off this weekend’s series victory when they play the Dallas Baptist Patriots at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Norman.