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Danielle Fox

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OCU finishes fourth in World Series after 7-0 loss

William Carey hangs fourth shutout of year on Stars

Danielle Fox closed out her OCU career with a 29-6 record.
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COLUMBUS, Ga. – Oklahoma City University completed its season with a fourth-place finish in the NAIA Softball World Series after a 7-0 loss to William Carey (Miss.) on Wednesday at the South Commons Complex.
Oklahoma City (55-13) turned in a fourth-place showing for the fourth time and reached 55 victories for the ninth time in program history. OCU has taken home national championships in 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2007.
OCU went to 114-44 all-time in its 29th appearance in the NAIA World Series. OCU leads the NAIA in World Series victories. OCU had its most victories this season since its 66-win season in 2004.
The 16th-ranked Stars took their fourth shutout of the year against 10th-ranked William Carey. OCU entered the contest as the NAIA's highest scoring team with 495 runs this season. The Stars dropped to 11-7 this year against ranked teams.
William Carey's Brittany LeBlanc shut out the Stars on four hits and a walk. LeBlanc improved to 20-7 on the year, while Danielle Fox took the loss to move to 23-4. Fox, Maci-Brooke Lambert and Jamie Rateliff each pitched two innings for OCU.
Fox, Rateliff, Jocelin Diaz and Kyndra Holasek picked up hits, while Kayley Humann drew the walk for the Stars.  
William Carey scored in the bottom of the first inning on Jasmine Shelby's groundout. William Carey tallied five runs in the third. Sarah Beckman had a two-run double, Hannah Cook-Kelley walked with the bases loaded and Janessa Dedeaux added a two-run single.
Caroline Walker closed out the scoring with a sacrifice fly in the fourth.
Fox, a senior from Yukon, Okla., finished her OCU career with a 29-6 record, 1.91 earned run average, nine shutouts, three saves and 200 strikeouts in 216.1 innings pitched. Fox also hit .283 with 45 runs scored, 87 hits, 15 doubles, four home runs and 45 RBIs. She is a two-time NAIA scholar-athlete award winner as well as a first-team CoSIDA academic all-district pick and second-team academic all-American. Fox became a second-team all-Sooner Athletic Conference choice and an SAC pitcher of the week honoree as a senior.
 
NAIA Softball World Series
At Columbus, Ga.
South Commons Complex
All Times EDT
Friday's Results
Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) 1, College of Idaho 0, 9 inn.
Oklahoma City 15, Simpson (Calif.) 2
Reinhardt (Ga.) 6, St. Gregory's 0
William Carey (Miss.) 2, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) 0
Saturday's Results
St. Gregory's 3, Simpson 2, Simpson eliminated
College of Idaho 3, Olivet Nazarene 0, Olivet Nazarene eliminated
Auburn-Montgomery (Ala.) 3, Lindsey Wilson 0
Oklahoma City 2, LSU-Alexandria 0
Monday's Results
Lindsey Wilson 7, St. Gregory's 0, St. Gregory's eliminated
College of Idaho 1, LSU-Alexandria 0, LSU-Alexandria eliminated
Reinhardt 3, Oklahoma City 2
Auburn-Montgomery 2, William Carey 1
Tuesday's Results
Oklahoma City 4, Lindsey Wilson 0, Lindsey Wilson eliminated
William Carey 6, College of Idaho 5, 9 inn., Coll. of Idaho eliminated
Auburn-Montgomery 2, Reinhardt 0
Wednesday's Results
Game 16: William Carey 7, Oklahoma City 0, Oklahoma City eliminated
Game 17: William Carey 7, Reinhardt 6, 9 inn., Reinhardt eliminated
Thursday's Games
Game 18: Auburn-Montgomery vs. William Carey, 5 p.m., championship
Game 19: If necessary, 30 minutes following Game 18
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