#2 Softball 3/9/2013 12:14:00 AM

OCU takes two from Northeastern

Stars defeat Northeastern State 8-6, 14-6

Angela Lovelady scored four runs Saturday.

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TAHLEQUAH, Okla. – Oklahoma City University reeled off 8-6, 14-6 wins over Northeastern State on Saturday at Riverhawks Park.
Kyndra Holasek drove in the winning run in the top of the eighth inning in the first game for the Stars, ranked fourth in NAIA softball. OCU buried Northeastern under a nine-run fifth in the second game. The Stars (16-4) won for the 10th consecutive time.
Holasek, a freshman from Mustang, Okla., led off the eighth by nailing a single to right field to drive in Tori Joyner, who started the inning on second base per international tiebreaker rules. Kayley Humann, running for LeeAnn Lopez, scored an insurance run on an error. Lopez singled earlier in the inning.
Elizabeth Oberst, a senior left-hander from Benecia, Calif., retired Northeastern in order in the eighth to finish off the win. Oberst (11-2) notched her eighth complete game in 16 appearances this year.
Magean De La Torre brought home a third-inning run on an RBI base hit to center. OCU led 2-0.
The Stars erased a 3-2 deficit in the fifth. Jamie Rateliff tied the game on a sacrifice fly. Emily Krienke doubled to left-center to drive in De La Torre and put OCU up 4-3.
OCU took a 6-3 lead in the top of the seventh. Rateliff had an RBI single, and Krienke scored on Shelbi Legg's groundout.
Northeastern's Kelsi Hilderbrandt had a two-run base hit to tie the game and force extra innings in the bottom of the seventh.
Joyner, a senior from Mustang, Okla., went 3-for-5 with two runs scored, while Rateliff, a sophomore from Mustang, Okla., was 2-for-2 with two RBIs and two walks. Krienke, a sophomore from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, went 2-for-3 with a run driven in.
In the second game, De La Torre and Lopez each pounded two-run home runs in the fifth. The Stars overcame a 6-1 deficit. Lopez notched her sixth multihomer game as a Star.
Joyner plated a run on a run-scoring single, then Holasek brought in a run on a grounder. Lopez's two-run shot to center tied the game, and De La Torre's two-run blast put OCU in front. Krienke added an RBI double, and Legg drove in two runs on a single.
Lopez nailed a two-run homer in the sixth. Joyner socked an RBI triple, while Holasek had a sacrifice fly.
Lopez, a senior from Grand Prairie, Texas, went 3-for-5 with two runs scored and four RBIs, while Joyner went 3-for-5 with two runs scored and three runs brought in. Legg, a freshman from Mustang, Okla., was 2-for-4, scored a run and drove in two runs, while Angela Lovelady, a senior from El Cajon, Calif., went 2-for-4 with three runs scored. Lopez hammered her eighth and ninth homers this year, and De La Torre hit her third homer of the season.
Rateliff recorded her second complete game in as many starts for her second victory pitching. She also went 2-for-4 and scored a run.
The Stars host Oklahoma Wesleyan in a 5 p.m. doubleheader Tuesday at Ann Lacy Stadium.

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