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Home Of Champions|73 National Championships
Laci Joyner
Laci Joyner had three hits and drove in a couple of runs Tuesday.
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Winner Oklahoma City OCU 47-0
7
West Texas A&M WTAMU 34-8
Winner
Oklahoma City OCU
47-0
9
Final
7
West Texas A&M WTAMU
34-8
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
Oklahoma City OCU 4 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 2 9 14 1
West Texas A&M WTAMU 0 2 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 7 9 0

W: Wall, Georgia (20-0) L: Kami Merrill (3-2)

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Oklahoma City OCU 47-1
7
Winner West Texas A&M WTAMU 35-8
Oklahoma City OCU
47-1
3
Final
7
West Texas A&M WTAMU
35-8
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Oklahoma City OCU 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 3 9 1
West Texas A&M WTAMU 0 6 0 0 1 0 X 7 5 0

W: Shayne Starkey (6-1) L: Meador, Abby (18-1)

Game Recap: #2 Softball |

Stars split twin bill with West Texas A&M

No. 1-ranked OCU runs record to 47-0, win streak to 52

CANYON, Texas – No. 1-ranked Oklahoma City University prevailed 9-7 in 10 innings over West Texas A&M before falling 7-3 on Tuesday at Schaeffer Park.
Kali Pugh delivered a 10th-inning RBI single to push the Stars' record to 47-0 and win streak to 52 games. West Texas A&M, ranked sixth in NCAA Division II softball, gave OCU, top-ranked in the NAIA, its first loss since May 30, 2016.
Oklahoma City (47-1) had surpassed the previous NAIA record win streak of 44 games by Concordia (Calif.) in 2012. OCU fell short of Northern Kentucky's 55-game winning streak in 2005 for the best win streak in college softball history. West Texas A&M denied the Stars the chance to equal Tufts (Mass.) for the best undefeated start to a season by a college softball team as Tufts went 51-0 in 2015.
Saint Xavier (Ill.) knocked off the Stars 1-0 in the 2016 NAIA Softball World Series for OCU's last defeat. St. Gregory's beat OCU 2-1 on March 22, 2016 for the Stars' last regular-season loss. West Texas A&M snapped the Stars' 73-game regular-season winning string.
OCU halted West Texas A&M's 24-game winning streak at Schaeffer Park. Colorado Mesa dealt West Texas its last home loss 2-1 on May 6, 2016 in the NCAA Division II South Central Regional. West Texas A&M (35-8) reached No. 2 in the NCAA Division II rankings in February.
In the first game, Jaci Smith provided the Stars with a two-out run-scoring base hit to center field to put OCU ahead 9-7 in the 10th. The teams didn't use the international-tiebreaking runner until the 10th. Laci Joyner nailed a two-run single to left field to give OCU a 7-5 sixth-inning advantage. Pugh tied the game 5-5 with an RBI base hit in the sixth.
West Texas A&M sent the contest into extra innings when Shea Ibrahim led off the bottom of the seventh by hitting a home run that stayed fair near the left-field foul pole. Kylee Moore gave the Lady Buffs a 5-4 edge in the third with a three-run blast over the left-center field wall. West Texas A&M pinned the most runs on OCU this year after Texas Wesleyan had scored four runs March 14 in Fort Worth, Texas. The Stars entered Tuesday leading the NAIA with a 0.54 earned run average.
Oklahoma City jumped ahead 4-0 in the first. Smith opened the scoring by ripping an RBI double to left, then Madison Ellis belted a two-run base hit along the left-field foul line. Bailey Whitmore added a sacrifice fly to center.
Georgia Wall moved her record to 20-0 this season. Wall, a sophomore from Marlow, Okla., struck out seven in 10 innings. West Texas A&M hit the second and third homers Wall has given up as a Star. Houston-Victoria's Aubri Hockenberry became the first to hit a homer off Wall on Thursday. Wall recorded 170 pitches.
Pugh, a senior from Vista, Calif., went 3-for-5, scored three times, drove in two runs and stole two bases, while McRae Cayton, a senior from Irvine, Calif., was 2-for-3. Samantha Stallbaumer, a sophomore from Haven, Kan., had a 2-for-4 game with a run scored and steal.
In the second game, Pugh gave OCU a 1-0 second-inning lead by ripping an RBI triple into right field. West Texas A&M answered with a six-run bottom of the second as Ibrahaim struck for a three-run homer, and Moore hit a two-run homer.
Smith smacked a two-run triple in the seventh. Pugh led OCU with a 3-for-4 performance with a run scored and an RBI.
West Texas A&M handed Abby Meador her first loss of the season. Meador went to 18-1 while fanning five in 3.1 innings.
The Stars meet Bacone in a 5 p.m. Sooner Athletic Conference doubleheader Wednesday at Ann Lacy Stadium.
 
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