BETHANY, Okla. – Oklahoma City University launched a season-high five home runs in a 14-1 romp past Southern Nazarene on Tuesday at the Cypert Athletic Complex.
Kirk Walker belted two homers, while Chad Carman, Dearth Parker and Matt Presley each went deep for OCU. The Stars, ranked third in NAIA baseball, moved to 33-6, 20-1 in the Sooner Athletic Conference while completing a season sweep of Southern Nazarene.
Walker, a senior from Bakersfield, Calif., recorded his second multi-homer game in his decorated Stars career. Walker nailed two dingers in the same game for the first time since May 8, 2008 against Oklahoma Baptist.
In the fourth, Walker led off the inning with a solo blast over the left-field wall. Walker's second homer came in the seventh between Parker's three-run shot and Presley's solo homer.
Carman cranked a two-run blast to left to give OCU a 7-1 third-inning advantage.
OCU erased a 1-0 deficit with five runs in the second. Austin Messerli drove in the Stars' first run with a base hit to right before Terrance Jackson added an RBI single. Ruben Sosa and Walker chipped in RBI singles, while Parker used a groundout to bring in a run.
Scott Dalrymple put the Stars up 9-1 in the sixth with a run-scoring single to left.
In the seventh, Jackson reached base on a hit by pitch, then Sosa drew a walk. Parker followed by cranking a shot over the left-field wall to touch off back-to-back-to-back Stars homers.
OCU banged out 16 hits. Walker went 4-for-4 with three runs scored and three RBIs, and Sosa, a junior from Lawrence, Mass., went 2-for-4 with two runs scored and an RBI for the Stars.
Messerli, a senior from Norman, Okla., went 2-for-3 with a run scored and a run driven in, while Dalrymple, a senior from Beaverton, Ore., was 2-for-4, scored a run and brought in a run. Presley, a senior from Colorado Springs, Colo., went 2-for-5 with a run scored and an RBI.
The Stars meet Mid-America Christian 2:30 p.m. Thursday on the road in Oklahoma City.
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