Baseball 2/16/2014 9:00:00 PM

OCU prevails 5-4 over Bellevue

Foster hammers home run in eighth inning for game-winning RBI

Josh Dickey had a base hit over the weekend.

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OKLAHOMA CITY – Garrett Foster's first collegiate home run brought Oklahoma City University a 5-4 victory over Bellevue (Neb.) on Sunday at Jim Wade Stadium in a clash of top 15-ranked teams in NAIA baseball.
Foster, a freshman from Ardmore, Okla., pounded the first pitch he saw over the left-field wall with one out in the bottom of the eighth inning to break a 4-4 deadlock. The fifth-ranked Stars improved to 3-1, while 14th-ranked Bellevue dropped to 0-3.
OCU scored the final three runs of the game. In the bottom of the fifth, Adonis Askew nailed an RBI single to left to cut the Stars' deficit to 4-2 with one out. Askew foiled Brennan Henry's no-hit bid with his base hit. Connor Lynch clouted a 1-0 pitch over the left-field wall for a two-run homer to tie the game.
Galli Cribbs' two-run single and Joe Mancuso's RBI double gave Bellevue a 4-1 advantage in the top of the fifth.
OCU pushed across a run in the first. Josh Halbert and Askew drew walks, then Halbert advanced to third base on a wild pitch. Lynch grounded out to the shortstop to bring Halbert home.
In the ninth, Nate Mullins of Bellevue walked to load the bases. Matt Marsh got Aaron Brasher to ground out to third, where Halbert threw out Cribbs at home. Mancuso hit into a double play, where Halbert stepped on third, then threw out Mancuso at first.
Holden Lyons, a freshman right-hander from Edmond, Okla., went two innings, allowed a hit and notched a strikeout to register the victory. Marsh, a senior righty from Oceanport, N.J., recorded the save by working the ninth.
Lynch, a junior from Marietta, Ga., drove in three runs for the Stars. Askew, a junior from Houston, went 1-for-3, scored a run and brought in a run.
The Stars face Tabor (Kan.) at 3 p.m. Friday at Jim Wade Stadium.

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