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Gunner Halter
Gunner Halter drove in two runs Sunday.
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Viterbo (Wis.) VITU 0-4
14
Winner Oklahoma City University OCU 6-5
Viterbo (Wis.) VITU
0-4
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Final
14
Oklahoma City University OCU
6-5
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Viterbo (Wis.) VITU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1
Oklahoma City University OCU 7 0 4 0 0 3 0 14 14 0

W: Wright, Jacob (1) L: Bergstrom, Ian (1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Stars blank Viterbo 14-0

OCU wrap up second consecutive shutout

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City University routed Viterbo (Wis.) 14-0 on Sunday at Jim Wade Stadium.
Cross Factor drove in a team-best three runs. The Stars, ranked 16th in NAIA baseball, improved to 6-5.
Oklahoma City reached double figures in runs for the second consecutive game and fourth time this year. The Stars had double digits in hits (14) for the fifth time in 2021. OCU shut out Viterbo for the second contest in a row. The Stars held Viterbo to four hits.
The Stars plated seven runs in the first inning. Frederic Walter touched off the scoring by crushing an RBI triple into deep right field. Factor followed with a run-scoring double to right, and Dalton Reed knocked in a run on a base hit to right-center field. Tanner Sparks added a two-run single. Sparks put OCU ahead 7-0 by reaching home plate on a wild pitch.
In the third, OCU built an 11-0 advantage. Dylan Taylor launched a double deep into left field to bring in two runs. Factor doubled to right-center to tack on two more runs.
In the sixth, Jared Hazeldine hit a sacrifice fly, and Gunner Halter smacked a two-run base hit to center for the final margin.
OCU's Jacob Wright, Riley DeMarco and Matthew Turpen combined on the four-hit whitewash. Wright, a senior left-hander from Cass City, Mich., kept Viterbo scoreless on two hits and two walks through five innings. Wright struck out seven.
DeMarco, a redshirt freshman lefty from Yukon, Okla., preserved the shutout by working out of a bases-loaded jam in the sixth. Matthew Turpen, a redshirt freshman righty from Owasso, Okla., struck out the side in the seventh.
Factor, a senior from Yukon, Okla., went 2-for-4, while Sparks, a junior from Shawnee, Okla., turned in a 3-for-4 day with three runs scored and two RBIs. Halter, a senior from Overland Park, Kan., had a 2-for-4 performance, scored run and knocked in two, and Taylor, a senior from Tulsa, Okla., went 2-for-4 with two runs driven in. Reed, a senior from Roff, Okla., went 2-for-4 with an RBI.
Oklahoma City meets Northwestern (Iowa) in a 2 p.m. doubleheader Monday at Jim Wade Stadium.
 
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