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Skyler Bean
Skyler Bean doubled, tripled and scored a run Friday night.
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Texas Wesleyan TWU 28-10, 9-4 SAC
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Winner Oklahoma City OCU 36-4, 13-0 SAC
Texas Wesleyan TWU
28-10, 9-4 SAC
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Final
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Oklahoma City OCU
36-4, 13-0 SAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 R H E
Texas Wesleyan TWU 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 8 13 2
Oklahoma City OCU 0 1 0 1 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 9 15 2

W: Milligan, Tyler (1-1) L: Brad Sugg (4-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Stars top Texas Wesleyan 9-8 in 13 innings

Lytle scores winning run on wild pitch with two out in 13th

OKLAHOMA CITY – Joe Lytle reached home plate on a wild pitch in the bottom of the 13th inning to bring Oklahoma City University a 9-8 victory over Texas Wesleyan in a battle of top 20-ranked teams in NAIA baseball.
Lane Milligan of the Stars scored on a passed ball to tie the game 8-8 in the 13th. Second-ranked OCU improved to 36-4, 13-0 in the Sooner Athletic Conference, while 12th-rated Texas Wesleyan dropped to 28-10, 9-4 in the SAC.
Aidan Laurini got to home plate with the go-ahead run for Texas Wesleyan in the top of the 13th. Laurini scored on Chandler Schoelkopf's grounder.
Milligan crushed a 1-1 pitch beyond the right-field wall for the tying home run in the bottom of the ninth to send the game to extra innings. The Stars went to 2-0 in extra-inning games this season. OCU played a 13-inning game for the first time since falling to Iowa Wesleyan 4-3 in 13 innings March 2, 2009 at Jim Wade Stadium. Oklahoma City moved to 10-2 vs. ranked foes this season.
Texas Wesleyan took a 7-6 lead in the eighth on Julio Ibarra's RBI double. Luis Roman tied the game 6-6 in the sixth on an RBI base hit for Texas Wesleyan. Blake Seaton had a run-scoring infield hit to cut Texas Wesleyan's deficit to 6-5 also in the sixth.
Jared Baker hammered a double into the left-field corner with the bases loaded to put OCU on top 6-4 and plate three runs in the fifth. Baker, a senior from Edmond, Okla., equaled the Oklahoma City career doubles record by smacking a double to left in the bottom of the seventh. Baker sits tied with Kirk Walker, who played for OCU from 2008-11, at 77 career doubles. Walker was the 2011 NAIA player of the year.
Milligan nailed a base hit to right to cut the Stars' deficit to 4-3 in the fifth. Luis Roman gave Texas Wesleyan a 4-2 advantage with a two-run blast to left in the top of the fifth.
Cory Linn had an RBI single for OCU in the fourth, while Branden Grieger drove in a run on a second-inning single.
Tyler Milligan notched the victory by pitching the 12th and the 13th for the Stars. Milligan, a junior right-hander from Wagoner, Okla., posted his first career OCU win.
Brad Sugg (4-1) was the losing pitcher. Wade Regas made his first career start in his 43rd appearance for Texas Wesleyan. Regas lasted 8.1 innings, throwing 121 pitches.
Baker was 3-for-7 with two doubles and three RBIs, while Milligan, a junior from Englewood, Colo., turned in a 2-for-5 night with three runs scored, two runs driven in and his third homer of the year for the Stars.
Shaun Corso, a junior from Lancaster, Pa., went 2-for-6 with his first triple for OCU, and Skyler Bean, a senior from Garland, Texas was 2-for-5 with a run scored, double and a triple. Jerame Littell, a senior from Stillwater, Okla., had a 2-for-6 performance and scored a run, while Lytle, a junior from Yukon, Okla., went 2-for-7 with a run scored.
The Stars conclude their series with Texas Wesleyan with a 1 p.m. doubleheader Saturday at Jim Wade Stadium.
 
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