Dallas Baptist’s three-run third inning was enough to defeat the Sooner baseball team Tuesday night at L. Dale Mitchell Park.

The big inning for the Patriots left OU scrambling to score off dominant DBU senior pitcher Brandon Williamson in a 3-2 loss.

Williamson threw 121 pitches for the Patriots — 79 strikes — in the winning effort. Over seven innings, Williamson recorded five strikeouts and gave up two runs on seven hits, all of which were singles.

Oklahoma coach Sunny Golloway was frustrated with the team’s inability to manufacture runs against Williamson.

“We pitched well, but we didn’t swing the bat well tonight,” Golloway said.

Golloway noticed a lack of energy from his team after the excitement of last weekend’s Bedlam series and Sunday’s extra inning game. Golloway said he did all he could to get OU’s energy up.

“I called the team up in the sixth inning and told them the guys on the field were going to need our energy in the dugout,” Golloway said. “I wouldn’t do that unless we were a club that I thought had a bit of a hangover.”

Golloway was frustrated that despite moving players around in the lineup from game to game, the Sooners can’t find a winning combination.

“Guys just can’t settle in,” Golloway said. “We could leave things the way we were, but that just wouldn’t be the key. Some things work, but the other things are broken.”

The Sooners had a chance in the eighth when junior third baseman Garrett Buechele led off the inning with a single. Golloway then pulled Buechele for pinch runner senior Elliot Blair and gave junior catcher Tyler Ogle the green light to swing away. However, Ogle hit the first pitch he saw to the second baseman for a 4-6-3 double play.

“We let him swing it, and one pitch later, there’s two outs,” Golloway said. “That’s a little bit snake-bitten, if you ask me.”

Golloway said he’s glad the team will have to come to the stadium tonight to play against Bacone College for a chance rid itself of the hard feelings left from the Bedlam series and Tuesday’s loss.

“We have a lot of guys who are still hung over and need to be mature about it and have to come out and wash it out,” Golloway said.

OU pitching was the strongest point for the Sooners in Tuesday’s game. Freshman righty Kindle Ladd started for the first time of his career. Ladd went 4.2 innings, giving up three runs from four hits with four strikeouts.

Senior lefty Anthony Collazo came into the game in relief for the ninth time this season, throwing 3.2 innings of scoreless ball with only two hits against him.

The Sooners will host Bacone College at 6:30 tonight at L. Dale Mitchell Park. The game was scheduled as a makeup for the rain-out against Arkansas on March 29.