OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma City University baseball team continued their hot streak with a 15-0 win over Mid-America Christian Friday at Jim Wade Stadium.
OCU, ranked fourth in the NAIA, won their seventh straight game and moved to 25-4, 4-0 in Sooner Athletic Conference play this season.
Matt Young was dominant on the mound for the Stars, pitching six innings while allowing no runs, just two hits and striking out five. Young, a junior from Glendora, Calif., threw just 76 pitches, 57 for strikes, and lowered his season earned run average to 1.60.
Oklahoma City opened the game with three runs in the bottom of the first after a three-RBI home run from Jared Baker, his 11th of the season.
The floodgates opened for OCU in the third inning with five runs. The inning was highlighted by an RBI double from Shaun Corso and sacrifice flies by Lane Milligan and Garrett Foster.
Corso, a junior from Lancaster, Pa., Milligan, a junior out of Englewood, Colo., and Foster, a junior from Ardmore, Okla., went a combined 6-for-8 with five runs scored and five RBIs.
The Stars added three runs in the fourth and four in the sixth to move ahead 15-0 and end the game after seven innings via the run-rule. The three-run fourth came by a three-run bomb off the bat of Cory Linn.
Oklahoma City is now the only undefeated team in SAC play at 4-0.
Joe Lytle, a junior from Yukon, Okla., led OCU offensively with three singles in four at bats.
The Stars continue the series with MACU 1 p.m. Saturday at James Curtis Baseball Field.