OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma City University split two games on Saturday. They had a wild 6-5 extra inning win over 21st ranked Concordia.
The Stars, ranked 11th in the NAIA split Saturday's games with a 5-1 loss to 6th ranked Bellevue in the night portion. OCU moved to 3-5.
The Stars and Bruins had three hits combined through five innings of play. Bellevue got the scoring off with an RBI single in the 5th. OCU responded in the bottom of the 5th with an RBI groundout by
Jesse Fonteboa, scoring Barret Daniel.
The seven-inning game went into extras tied at one until the Bruins added three runs off a single and a two-run homerun to give them the advantage going into the bottom of the 8th.
OCU never gave in and fought all the way back tying it with a little bit of help from two passed balls and a game-tying home run from
Chad Pike with two outs. The Bruins homered again in the top of the ninth, but again OCU rallied tying it with a leadoff home run from
Hunter Brown, the Yukon, Okla., natives second of his career. After a walk to Daniel and double from Felix-Chenier-Rondeau,
Trent Kiraly walked it off with a bloop single to shallow right center. Kiraly, a junior from Farmington, N.M. has eight RBIs in the season, Chenier-Rondeau, a junior from Blainville, Quebec, Canada has eight and Pike, a senior from Southampton, N.Y. has seven RBIs and four home runs in the early going of the season.
Kiraly, Chenier-Rondeau each picked up two hits. Brown, Pike, and Daniel had the Stars other three. Starting pitcher,
Eli Davis threw six innings picking up seven strikeouts.
Grant Harrison claimed the win for the Stars picking up six strikeouts in three innings.
In the second game, the Stars offense dwindled after the almost four-hour break. OCU tallied one run on six hits.
Noah Kang had two along with Fonteboa and Frankie Daniel III.
The Stars lone run came in the ninth inning off the bat of pinch hitter Frankie Daniel III. Daniel III, a freshman from Guthrie, Okla., saw his very first collegiate pitch and casually hit it out beyond the fence in right field to get the Stars on the board.
Andrew Limbaugh and
Isaac Horstman combined for eight strikeouts in the loss.
OCU will conclude their series with both Bellevue (Neb.) and Concordia (Neb.) with two games Sunday starting at 11 a.m. at Jim Wade Stadium.