OKLAHOMA CITY – Lexi Duff and Tiffany Paul pounded grand slams to power No. 1-ranked Oklahoma City University to a doubleheader sweep of Southwestern Assemblies of God (Texas) 11-3 and 9-5 on Thursday at Ann Lacy Stadium. 

Duff smacked homers in both ends of the twin bill to propel the Stars, top-ranked in NAIA softball. OCU improved to 31-4, 17-3 in the Sooner Athletic Conference. 

In the first game, Oklahoma City erased a 3-0 first-inning deficit by piling up seven runs in the second inning. Nicole Robinson nailed an RBI double into right-center field to plate OCU's first run of the day. 

Rally Radacy singled through the middle of the infield, then Tiffany Paul hit a run-scoring base hit to right to even the score 3-3. Duff launched her first career grand slam beyond the left-field wall. 

In the third, Kennedy Jackson had a sacrifice fly to right-center. Radacy crushed an RBI triple to right-center, then scored herself on an errant relay throw back to the infield. Paul closed out the game with a sac fly to right. 

Shelbey Cornelson snatched up the win. Cornelson, a junior from Tuttle, Okla., struck out nine in five innings. Cornelson (19-2) struck the side in the third. 

Duff, a senior from Lone Grove, Okla., posted a 3-for-3 performance with four RBIs, equaling her career high of four runs driven in against Oklahoma Wesleyan on Feb. 28, 2020. Robinson, a senior from Rochester, Ill., went 3-for-3 with three runs scored and an RBI, while Radacy, a freshman from Lookeba, Okla., turned in a 3-for-4 showing with two runs scored and two runs driven in. 

In the second game, Paul hammered her first career grand slam over the left-field wall to highlight a five-run fourth inning. The Stars overcame a 4-2 deficit with the outburst. Mallory McCoy reached home plate on an error after Jackson legged out a bunt hit. 

Duff put OCU on the board by belting a two-run blast over the left-field wall in the third. Paul tacked on and RBI single and scored a run on a wild pitch in the fifth. 

Paul, a redshirt freshman from Choctaw, Okla., delivered a 3-for-3 showing, scored three times and drove in five runs. Duff went 2-for-3 with a run scored and two RBIs, and Brooklyn Mason, a senior from Lone Grove, Okla., turned in a 2-for-3 outing with a triple. 

Duff collected the victory, moving to 12-2 on the year. Duff fanned three in six innings. Cornelson wrapped up the game in the circle in the seventh. 

Oklahoma City takes on Mid-America Christian in a 2 p.m. doubleheader Monday on the road.