ST. CHARLES, Mo. – Oklahoma City University suffered 4-3 and 10-9 losses to Lindenwood (Mo.) on Saturday at the Lou Brock Complex.

Dearth Parker and Julien Pollard led OCU with three hits each on the day. The Stars, ranked No. 1 in NAIA baseball, dropped to 31-6 this year.

Lindenwood took the first game in eight innings on Matt Tellar's pinch-hit home run with two outs. Pollard drove in the tying run with a two-out pinch-hit base hit in the sixth.

The Stars' Terrance Jackson reached home plate in the third on a wild pitch. Parker nailed an RBI single to cut OCU's deficit to 3-2 in the fifth.

Rich Hawkins (5-3) took the loss. Corey Theriot pitched the first six innings for OCU and allowed three runs on five hits and struck out eight.

Parker, a senior from Roff, Okla., went 1-for-3 with an RBI, and Matt Presley, a senior from Colorado Springs, Colo., went 1-for-4 and scored a run. Jackson, a senior from Greenville, Ala., scored twice and had two walks.

In the second game, Cory Trudell got the final two outs after the Stars put the tying run on second base.

OCU cut its deficit to 10-9 in the sixth. Scott Dalrymple drove in a run on a base hit, and Jackson hit into a grounder to score another run.

The Stars' four-run fourth sliced Lindenwood's lead to 8-7. Austin Messerli scored on an error, then Kirk Walker drew a bases-loaded walk. Pollard had a sacrifice fly, and Parker scored while Walker was in a rundown.

OCU had a 3-1 lead in the second inning. Ruben Sosa had a two-run double, and Parker hit a run-scoring single for the Stars. Lindenwood responded with seven runs in the bottom of the inning.

Lindenwood pinned the first loss of the year on Allen Townsend (6-1).

Sosa, a junior from Lawrence, Mass., went 2-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBIs, while Parker was 2-for-3 with two runs scored and an RBI. Walker, a senior from Bakersfield, Calif., was 2-for-4 with a run scored and a run driven in, and Pollard went 2-for-3 with an RBI. Messerli, a senior from Norman, Okla., was 1-for-2 with two runs scored.