Mizzou, Oklahoma State reach title game

? Cody Ehlers hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in the seventh inning to send Missouri into its first Big 12 Conference tournament championship game with a 10-7 victory over Baylor on Saturday.

With the game tied at 7, Lee Laskowski doubled against Zane Carlson (0-4) leading off the seventh. Paul Woody was brought in to pitch to Ehlers, who hit his second homer of the tournament and 17th of the season.

Jeremy Hernandez added a sacrifice fly to stretch Missouri’s lead to 10-7.

Missouri (37-20) is 3-0 in the tournament and has won seven straight overall. The seventh-seeded Tigers will face Oklahoma State in the title game today.

Missouri’s last appearance in a tournament title game was in 1980, when the Tigers won the Big Eight.

Baylor (29-31) was eliminated with its second tournament defeat.

Mark Alexander (4-0) allowed one hit in 22/3 shutout innings for the victory.

The Bears were trying to force a second game against the Tigers in the double-elimination tournament, and Baylor carried a 4-3 lead into the fourth.

Missouri came back with a three-run fourth to take a 6-4 lead, with James Boone’s two-run blast the key hit of the inning.

Missouri's Cody Ehlers, right, scores as Baylor catcher Tyler Bullock fields a throw in the first inning of the Tigers' 10-7 victory. The outcome Saturday in Arlington, Texas, sent MU to today's Big 12 Conference championship game, where it will face Oklahoma State.

Missouri had a three-run first inning against Baylor starter Jared Theodorakos. Laskowski had an RBI double, Ehlers drove in the second run with a single, and Hernandez made it 3-0 with a sacrifice fly.

The Bears came back with a four-run fourth highlighted by Josh Ford’s two-run double, Mike Pankratz’s RBI double, and Kevin Sevigny’s run-scoring single to go ahead, 4-3.

Gary Arndt’s RBI single in the sixth extended Missouri’s lead to 7-4.

Kyle Reynolds’ two-run single in Baylor’s three-run seventh tied it at 7.

Oklahoma State 8, Texas 2

Josh Fields hit a tying two-run homer, and Thomas Incaviglia broke the tie with a two-run single during an eight-run sixth-inning rally as Oklahoma State beat top-seeded Texas.

The fourth-seeded Cowboys (36-22) will take on seventh-seeded Missouri in the title game today.

Missouri is the lowest-seeded team ever to reach the Big 12 tournament finals.

UT (50-13) was eliminated by its second tournament defeat. The Longhorns won the regular-season title, but they lost two of three in the tournament and five of their last eight overall.

OSU’s Scott Richmond (3-3) allowed two runs and seven hits over 81/3 innings. He struck out six and walked three.

Solo homers by Curtis Thigpen in the fourth and David Maroul in the fifth gave UT a 2-0 lead.

In the sixth, OSU’s Ty Wright hit a one-out single and Fields followed with a two-run shot off starter Randy Boone (3-1) to even the score at 2.

Oklahoma State went on to load the bases in the sixth against reliever Kyle Yates, who didn’t record an out while giving up three runs and two hits.