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Matt Young
Matt Young supplied OCU with his fourth complete game in five starts.
8
Winner Oklahoma City OCU 49-8
3
William Carey WCU 43-19
Winner
Oklahoma City OCU
49-8
8
Final
3
William Carey WCU
43-19
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Oklahoma City OCU 0 0 1 4 0 1 0 2 0 8 12 0
William Carey WCU 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 3

W: Young, Matt (10-2) L: Conner McWilliams (7-2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Stars snare 8-3 win over William Carey

No. 1-ranked OCU seizes lead with four runs in fourth inning

LEWISTON, Idaho – Top-ranked Oklahoma City University rallied past William Carey (Miss.) 8-3 on Saturday night at Harris Field in the NAIA World Series.
Jared Baker drove in five runs, while Matt Young hurled a complete game for the Stars before a crowd of 2,350. OCU (49-8) squares off with 16th-ranked Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) at 6:30 p.m. PDT (8:30 p.m. CDT) Monday.
Oklahoma City erased a 2-0 second-inning deficit and a 3-1 third-inning hole. The Stars struck for four runs in the fourth.
Lane Milligan sparked OCU's four-run uprising with an RBI base hit with two outs. Jerame Littell scored on Milligan's single after he reached on a dropped third strike and wild pitch while striking out. With the bases full, Baker cleared the bags by pounding a double into deep left-center field.
In the third, Baker put OCU on the scoreboard with a run-scoring single to right. Baker ripped another RBI double along the first-base line deep into right field for a 5-3 sixth-inning OCU lead. Baker, a senior from Edmond, Okla., went 3-for-5 and scored a run.
In the eighth, Shaun Corso added an RBI single to left. Cory Linn nailed a run-scoring double to right-center to give the Stars an 8-3 advantage.
Young, a junior right-hander from Glendora, Calif., struck out six while allowing seven hits and five walks. He tallied 161 pitches in his nine-inning effort against 20th-ranked William Carey. Young moved to 10-2 with his sixth complete game of the year.
Milligan, a junior from Englewood, Colo., had a 2-for-5 performance with a run scored and an RBI, while Joe Lytle, a junior from Yukon, Okla., was 2-for-5 with two runs scored for OCU. Corso, a junior from Lancaster, Pa., went 2-for-5 with a double and an RBI, and Linn, a senior from Moore, Okla., went 1-for-3 with a run driven in.
 
NAIA World Series
At Lewiston, Idaho
Harris Field
All Times CDT
Friday's Results
The Master's (Calif.) 7, USAO 3
Missouri Baptist 5, Oklahoma Wesleyan 3
William Carey (Miss.) 11, Hope International (Calif.) 8
Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) 7, Keiser (Fla.) 4
Saturday's Results
USAO 8, Oklahoma Wesleyan 2, Oklahoma Wesleyan eliminated
Keiser 8, Hope International 5, Hope International eliminated
Faulkner (Ala.) 13, The Master's 5
Oklahoma City 8, William Carey 3
Monday's Games
Game 9: USAO vs. William Carey, 10:30 a.m.
Game 10: Keiser vs. The Master's, 1:30 p.m.
Game 11: Faulkner vs. Missouri Baptist, 5 p.m.
Game 12: Oklahoma City at Lewis-Clark State, 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday's Games
Game 13: Winner Game 9 vs. Loser Game 11, 1:30 p.m.
Game 14: Winner Game 10 vs. Loser Game 12, 5 p.m.
Game 15: Winner Game 11 vs. Winner Game 12, 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday's Games
Game 16: TBD
Game 17: TBD
NOTE: Games 16 and 17 TBD by tournament committee
Thursday's Game
Game 18: Championship, 8:30 p.m.
Friday, June 2
Game 19: If necessary, 8:30 p.m.
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