Softball 3/7/2014 11:30:00 PM

OCU takes two from Texas Wesleyan 2-1, 9-0

Diaz's late homer in game 1 sparks Stars

Kylee Rounsaville slammed her third home run of 2014 on Friday.

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FORT WORTH, Texas – Jocelin Diaz crushed a two-out, seventh-inning home run in the first game to force extra innings and propel Oklahoma City University to a 2-1, 9-0 sweep of Texas Wesleyan on Friday at Sycamore Park.
The Stars ran their winning streak to 12 games. OCU, ranked third in NAIA softball, moved to 16-1, 6-0 in Sooner Athletic Conference play.
In the first contest, Kayley Humann scored the Stars' winning run on an error in the eighth inning. Amanda Ingram grounded to the pitcher, who booted the play.
Texas Wesleyan led 1-0 in the first inning on Kali Jester's RBI base hit. Texas Wesleyan had two of its four hits in the first.
OCU's Maria Gomez kept Texas Wesleyan scoreless the rest of the game. Gomez, a junior from Yaracuy, Venezuela, limited the Lady Rams to one run on four hits and a walk with four strikeouts in eight innings. Gomez improved to 7-0 on the year.
Amber Marlett held OCU without a hit until Kyndra Holasek's double with one out in the sixth. The Stars' second hit came on Diaz's homer. Marlett retired the first six batters of the day until plunking Humann in the third. Humann walked in the fifth to account for OCU's only other base runner through seven innings.
With two out in the seventh, Diaz, a junior from Maracuy, Venezuela, nailed her third homer of the year over the left-field fence.
In the next game, Danielle Fox and Maci-Brooke Lambert combined to blank Texas Wesleyan on three hits and three walks. Fox, a senior from Yukon, Okla., struck out four in four innings to get to 4-0 on the season. Lambert, a junior from Healdton, Okla., fanned two in two innings.
Maxime van Dalen reached home plate for OCU's first run in the second on Diaz's sacrifice fly ball to left.
The Stars exploded for five runs in the third. Kylee Rounsaville smoked an RBI single to left, and Jamie Rateliff hit a two-run double to right-center field. Rateliff and Fox scored on errors.
Rounsaville belted a two-run homer to center in the sixth. Rounsaville, a junior from Yukon, Okla., went 2-for-3, scored twice, drove in three runs and stole a base. Ingram, a redshirt freshman from Oklahoma City, was 2-for-3 with a run scored, and van Dalen, a freshman from Heerhugowaard, Netherlands, scored three times and went 1-for-2.
The Stars meet Northwood (Texas) in a noon doubleheader Saturday in Cedar Hill, Texas.

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