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Blaze Hastings
Blaze Hastings earned his second win of the season on Monday.
3
Central Christian CCC 1-16
12
Winner Oklahoma City OCU 10-1
Central Christian CCC
1-16
3
Final
12
Oklahoma City OCU
10-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Central Christian CCC 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 5 2
Oklahoma City OCU 5 1 1 0 2 3 X 12 13 1

W: Hastings, Blaze (2-0) L: Bryan Scott (0-3)

3
Central Christian CCC 1-17
22
Winner Oklahoma City OCU 11-1
Central Christian CCC
1-17
3
Final
22
Oklahoma City OCU
11-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Central Christian CCC 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 8 4
Oklahoma City OCU 1 2 0 12 6 1 X 22 15 1

W: Knoche, Craig (3-1) L: Landon Stevens (0-4)

Game Recap: Baseball |

OCU blasts Central Christian 12-3, 22-3

Lane Milligan finishes day with six hits, including grand slam

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City University opened Sooner Athletic Conference play with a pair of wins over Central Christian (Kan.) 12-3 and 22-3 Monday afternoon at Jim Wade Stadium.
Lane Milligan, a senior from Binger, Okla., highlighted the day for the Stars with six total hits and 10 total RBIs against Southwestern Christian. OCU, ranked third in NAIA baseball, improved to 11-1 on the year and 2-0 in conference play while the Tigers fell to 1-17 overall and 0-5 in the SAC.
Milligan earned four of his six hits in Monday's first game, starting with a single up the middle that scored Elliott Cary and sparked the first of five runs for the Stars in the bottom of the first inning. Shaun Corso, a senior from Lancaster, Pa., later had a double that drove in a run. Corso finished the day with four total RBIs.
Oklahoma City notched a run in the second and third to pad its lead to 7-2 heading to the top of the fourth. Blaze Hastings, a senior from Guthrie, Okla., continued to cruise on the mound after allowing two first-inning runs to Central Christian, as he finished the game with five strikeouts in five innings and earned his second win of the season.
Milligan belted a two-out triple in the bottom of the fifth to drive in two more runs for OCU. In the sixth, he smacked a two-out double that scored Daniel Costello and Quinton Walbergh. Joining Milligan with multiple extra-base hits in game one was Joe Lytle, who finished 2-for-4 with two doubles.
In game two of Monday's double-header, OCU got on the scoreboard first when Corso reached on a fielding error by the Central Christian left fielder, allowing pinch runner Caleb Davis to score. The Tigers responded with two runs in the second and took a 2-1 lead, but the Stars quickly regained control when Costello singled and Garrett Foster doubled to tie the game at two. OCU then regained the lead a few batters later.
Costello and Foster each had three hits in game two, with Costello scoring four runs and Foster scoring five runs and tallying five RBIs. Walbergh, a junior from Edmond, Okla., added two hits, two runs and four RBIs in Monday's second game for OCU.
Central Christian scratched across a run to tie the game in the top of the third. Oklahoma City pulled away an inning later, scoring 12 runs in the bottom of the fourth. The Stars' big inning was highlighted by a 2-RBI double from Lytle and a grand slam from Milligan.
OCU scored six more runs in the bottom of the fifth, ignited by a two-run homerun from Walbergh. Costello tripled on the next pitch, then Foster knocked his first homerun of the season to drive in two more runs.
Craig Knoche, a senior from Tempe, Ariz., pitched four innings for the Stars in game two and struck out four batters. He allowed just one hit and no runs and earned his third win of the year.
Oklahoma City returns to action at 1 p.m. Tuesday for the final game of the series against Central Christian at Jim Wade Stadium.
 
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