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Oklahoma City University
Home Of Champions|73 National Championships
Dalton Reed
2
MidAmerica Nazarene MNU 5-4
12
Winner Oklahoma City OCU 8-7
MidAmerica Nazarene MNU
5-4
2
Final
12
Oklahoma City OCU
8-7
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
MidAmerica Nazarene MNU 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 4
Oklahoma City OCU 1 0 4 0 3 3 1 12 15 1

W: Schoeninger, Tanner (1-0) L: Kyle Waller (2-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Offense Explodes as Baseball Takes Series from MNU

Top Four in OCU Order Combine for 10 Hits, Nine Runs, 7 RBIs in Romp over Pioneers

OKLAHOMA CITY - The early part of the 2020 season has been feast or famine for the Oklahoma City University baseball offense.

On Saturday, they feasted.

OCU (8-7) rapped out 15 hits and a dozen runs as the Stars' pummeled the MidAmerica Nazarene University Pioneers (5-4)  in the finale of a weekend series, 12-2. The win gave OCU the series win as well after the teams split a double dip on Friday.

After Tanner Schoeninger worked a clean first inning, it took the Stars only three pitches to get on the board in the bottom half. Gunner Halter (4) belted a solo homer to left field to give OCU the 1-0 lead, but that was all the Stars plated in the frame, and MNU came right back with two runs in the second frame to take a 2-1 lead.

From that point forward, OCU was in complete control.

The Stars broke the game open in the bottom of the third inning, when again the long ball ignited things. After a leadoff walk and a single put runners at first and second with none out, Cross Factor smashed a 3-run round tripper to right field to put OCU up 4-2. Tyler Williams reached on an error and scored on a passed ball to push the Stars lead to 5-2 before the inning was over, and in the bottom of the fifth, a trio of doubles led to three more runs as OCU stretched their lead to 8-2.

Factor and Williams added RBI hits in the sixth, and Noah Barks also drove in a run as the Stars moved to the brink of victory, and in the seventh, it was Williams who picked up the walk-off RBI as OCU won the game on the run rule 12-2 in seven innings.

Schoeninger (1-0) allowed two earned runs on seven hits and four walks in five and two-thirds innings with 10 strikeouts, and he earned the win. The loss went to Kyle Waller (2-1), who was tagged for five runs on five hits in four innings of work.

Halter was 4-for-4 in the game and he scored four runs, Factor homered and tripled in four at bats with four RBIs, and Williams and Dalton Reed each had two hits. Reed and Seth Jones also had doubles in the game.

OCU will be back in action on Thursday afternoon when they head to Muskogee, Okla. to take on the Bacone College Warriors (1-14) for the first game of a three game weekend series. First pitch is scheduled for 12 p.m.
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