The Oklahoma State Cowboys had a similar weekend as the OU Sooners, losing the first two games of the series against West Virginia and winning the final game of the series.

Oklahoma State dropped its series opener to West Virginia, 6-3, Friday night at O’Brate Stadium.

The Mountaineers jumped out to a 3-1 lead in the first two innings and never trailed.

Oklahoma State suffered a 9-5 loss to West Virginia in the second game of the series Saturday night.

WVU plated four unearned runs with two outs in the eighth inning to doom the Cowboys, with the big blow in the inning a three-run home run by Landon Wallace.

Roc Riggio and Chase Adkison sparked the OSU offense, each collecting a double and a single; Riggio and Carson Benge reached base safely three times each.

Oklahoma State rallied for six runs in the eighth inning to win its series finale against West Virginia, 11-6, Sunday.

The win snapped OSU’s five-game losing streak as the 14th-ranked Cowboys improved to 24-13 overall and 8-7 in Big 12 play, while the 25th-ranked Mountaineers fell to 25-11 and 5-4 in the Big 12.

Tyler Wulfert’s 4-for-5 day, and Marcus Brown’s three-run homer powered the Cowboys’ offense. Riggio went 3-for-5 and added to his team-high totals with his 11th home run and 12th double of the season.

Two-way standout Benge got the start for the Cowboys, working three innings and striking out three while allowing three runs. Ryan Bogusz had his best outing of the season, working three shutout innings and picking up a pair of strikeouts.

Brian Hendry recorded the win to move to 2-0 as he kept the visitors off the scoreboard over the final 1 2/3 innings and struck out three.