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Tyler Williams
Tyler Williams leads the Stars with six home runs on the year.
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Winner Madonna University MU 9-1
2
Oklahoma City OCU 5-4
Winner
Madonna University MU
9-1
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Final
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Oklahoma City OCU
5-4
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Madonna University MU 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 3 4 0
Oklahoma City OCU 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 5 0

W: Dion Henderson (1-0) L: Patterson, Jake (0-2) S: John Beuckelaere (3)

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Oklahoma City OCU 5-5
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Winner Cumberland (Tenn.) CU 1-4
Oklahoma City OCU
5-5
8
Final
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Cumberland (Tenn.) CU
1-4
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Oklahoma City OCU 2 0 1 0 3 1 0 1 8 8 2
Cumberland (Tenn.) CU 0 1 0 3 0 0 3 2 9 9 1

W: Daniel Alvarez (1-1) L: Bennefield, Chris (1-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

OCU falls twice in Tennessee

Stars face Cumberland at 2 p.m. Sunday

LEBANON, Tenn. – Oklahoma City University suffered a 3-2 loss to Madonna (Mich.) and a 9-8 setback to Cumberland (Tenn.) on Saturday at Ernest L. Stockton Field-Woody Hunter Stadium.
Fredric Walter, a junior from Montigny, France, drove in both runs against Madonna before hitting a home run against Cumberland. The Stars, ranked 10th in NAIA baseball, dropped to 5-5 on the year.
Cumberland coach Woody Hunt notched career victory No. 1,600 against OCU. OCU coach Denney Crabaugh and Hunt hold the top two spots on the NAIA's win list among active baseball coaches. Crabaugh owns 1,504 wins.
Against Madonna, Walter spearheaded a rally in the bottom of the seventh inning. Walter nailed a two-run base hit to left field. Tyler Williams led off the seventh by reaching on an infield single, while Peyton Crispin drew a walk. Madonna held on for the win.
Adrian Reed hit a two-run homer in the third, and Frankie Lucska added an RBI double in the fifth for Madonna.
Walter went 1-for-3 with two runs driven in, while Williams, a senior from Peoria, Ariz., was 1-for-3 with a run scored. John Anthon, a senior from Dublin, Calif., turned in a 1-for-2 performance.
Noah Barks and Cross Factor each went 1-for-3. Jake Patterson took the loss, and Bryson Lierle pitched two innings in relief.
Against Cumberland, OCU bashed five homers. Walter hit his first homer as a Star, while Gunner Halter added his first two for OCU. Williams had two homers for his third multi-homer game for the Stars.
Williams put Oklahoma City ahead 2-0 by crushing a two-run blast beyond the right-center field wall in the first. Halter's first solo shot to right put the Stars on top 3-1 in the third.
Halter hammered a two-run homer over the left-field wall to give OCU a 5-4 edge in the fifth. Williams' RBI single added to OCU's lead in the fifth.
In the sixth, Walter pounded a solo shot over the right-center field wall for a 7-4 OCU advantage.
After Cumberland tied the game in the seventh, Williams responded with a solo blast in the top of the eighth for his sixth homer of the year. Cumberland used a hit by pitch and an error to regain the lead 9-8 in the bottom of the eighth.
Williams posted a 3-for-4 stat line with two runs scored and four RBIs. Halter, a senior from Overland Park, Kan., went 2-for-4 with two runs scored and three runs driven in. Chris Bennefield absorbed the loss, moving to 1-1.
OCU wraps up the series against Cumberland at 2 p.m. Sunday in Lebanon, Tenn.
 
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