Softball 4/24/2014 11:33:00 PM

OCU rolls past Mid-America Christian

Terry posts six hits, two runs scored and three stolen bases Thursday

Kylee Rounsaville delivered three hits, two runs scored, a double, a home run and five RBIs on Thursday.

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OKLAHOMA CITY – Kylee Rounsaville's three-run home run finished off Oklahoma City University's 4-2, 13-5 sweep of Mid-America Christian on Thursday at Ann Lacy Stadium.
Rounsaville laced a three-run shot off the scoreboard in left field for her eighth homer of the year with one out in the fifth inning to end the second game. OCU, ranked 18th in NAIA softball, improved to 42-10, 23-7 in the Sooner Athletic Conference.
Mid-America Christian cut its deficit to 6-5 on Natalie Bissell's two-run blast in the fourth. The Stars answered with the game's next seven runs.
In the bottom of the fourth, Kyndra Holasek and Cheyanne Terry had singles, then Jocelin Diaz reached on a hit by pitch to fill the bases. Rounsaville drew a bases-loaded walk after a nine-pitch at-bat. Diaz and Terry scored on an error.
Terry knocked in a run on a single to center field in the fifth. Diaz followed with a base hit to put runners on first base and third base for Rounsaville.
Maxime van Dalen smacked a two-run double to put OCU ahead 5-0 with one out in the first. Diaz had an RBI single, and Rateliff drove in a run on a double to right-center also in the first. Danielle Fox gave the Stars a 6-1 second-inning advantage on an RBI base hit to center.
Terry, a junior from Little Axe, Okla., went 4-for-4 with four runs scored, two stolen bases and an RBI for her third four-hit game of the year for the Stars. Holasek, a sophomore from Mustang, Okla., went 3-for-4 with a double, two steals and three runs scored, while Diaz, a junior from Maracay, Venezuela, was 2-for-3 with three runs scored and an RBI.
Rateliff, a junior from Mustang, Okla., pitched the final 2.1 innings to earn the victory. Rateliff improved to 9-2.
In the first game, Terry provided the Stars a 4-0 second-inning lead on a base hit to right to score Kayley Humann. Rounsaville touched off the OCU scoring with a run-scoring single to right in the first.
Also in the first, Diaz reached home plate on an error, then Rounasville scored on a wild pitch.
Fox, a senior from Yukon, Okla., limited Mid-America to two runs on three hits. Fox struck out seven in her eighth complete game of the year. She improved to 14-2.
Rounsaville went 2-for-3 with a run scored, a double and an RBI, and Terry went 2-for-3 with a run scored, a stolen base and a run driven in. Emily Krienke, a junior from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, was 1-for-3, and Humann, a sophomore from Edmond, Okla., went 1-for-3 with a run scored.
The Stars continue their regular season-ending homestand against Ottawa (Kan.) in a 1 p.m. doubleheader Saturday at Ann Lacy Stadium.

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