OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City University blistered Hastings (Neb.) 20-2 on Wednesday at Jim Wade Stadium.

The Stars, ranked seventh in NAIA baseball, pounded 20 hits. OCU improved to 24-3 on the year.

OCU scored in all but the first inning – five runs in the third inning, seven in the fifth and five in the sixth. Dearth Parker, a senior from Roff, Okla., led off the second by nailing a home run over the right-field wall for the Stars' first run.

After Hastings scored twice in the top of the third, OCU erased its deficit in the bottom of the inning. Parker knocked in the tying run on a base hit, then Julien Pollard crossed home plate on a wild pitch. Ruben Sosa poked an RBI single to left, and Mark Purser peppered a two-run base hit to center.

In the fifth, Pollard nailed a triple to right to drive home two runs. Parker added a sacrifice fly, and Kirk Walker had an RBI single. Sosa put OCU up 15-2 by scoring on a wild pitch.

OCU's Clint Maune, a senior left-hander from Yukon, Okla., allowed both runs on six hits and six walks while striking out four. Maune improved to 3-0 on the year.

Parker drove in four runs and scored twice while going 3-for-3, while Austin Messerli, a senior from Norman, Okla., went 4-for-4, scored three times and knocked in a run. Purser, a senior from Spokane, Wash., went 3-for-4 with a run scored and four RBIs, and Pollard, a senior from Tacoma, Wash., scored three times and had two RBIs while going 2-for-3. Walker, a senior from Bakersfield, Calif., went 2-for-4, scored a run and drove in two.