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OCU routs Wayland Baptist 22-6

Second-ranked Stars crank seven home runs, pad NAIA-high total to 77

Miguel Beltran pummeled two home runs to match Casey Allison of Wingate (N.C.) with 22 to top college baseball this season.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City University eclipsed season highs for runs and RBIs and tied its season high with seven home runs in a 22-6 romp past Wayland Baptist (Texas) on Friday at Jim Wade Stadium.
OCU's Miguel Beltran launched two home runs to tie Casey Allison of Wingate (N.C.) for the national lead at 22. The Stars, ranked second in NAIA baseball, improved to 40-8, 26-4 in the Sooner Athletic Conference.
Beltran, a senior from Long Beach, Calif., leads the NAIA and has equaled the lead in college baseball on all levels for homers. Beltran crushed a 1-1 pitch for a three-run blast during a seven-run third inning, then hammered a two-run shot over the right-field wall during a nine-run frame in the sixth.
Chad Carman, Kale Gaden, Chris Muñoz, Dane Phillips and Jonathan Sigado pounded homers for OCU, where a 23-mph wind blew out to left. The Stars top the NAIA with 77 home runs.
Carman nailed a three-run homer to left during a four-run second inning to break a 1-1 tie. Sigado led off the third with a solo shot for his second homer of the year.
Gaden's two-run shot to right put OCU ahead 13-6 in the fifth. Muñoz belted a two-run homer to right to spark OCU's nine-run sixth. Philips made it back-to-back homers after Beltran's two-run homer in the sixth.
Carman, a senior from Midwest City, Okla., went 3-for-5, scored three times and knocked in five runs. Beltran went 3-for-4 with two runs scored and six RBIs, while Phillips, a junior from Nacogdoches, Texas, went 3-for-5 with two doubles, a run scored and an RBI.
Rich Hawkins, a senior from Edmond, Okla., went 3-for-4 with two runs scored and a triple. Brian Fisher, a senior from Spring, Texas, socked two doubles, going 2-for-4 with two runs scored and an RBI. Gaden and Sigado each had two hits. OCU nailed 23 hits.
Cody Crabaugh moved to 9-2 with the win. Crabaugh, a junior right-hander from Edmond, Okla., struck out nine in five innings. Ryan Gibson finished on the mound for OCU.
OCU wraps up the regular season against Central Oklahoma at 2 p.m. Saturday in Edmond, Okla.
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