OKLAHOMA CITY – No. 1-ranked Oklahoma City University swept Friends (Kan.) 4-1 and 10-2 on Saturday at Ann Lacy Stadium.
Oklahoma City, top-ranked in NAIA softball, moved to 8-2 on the season.
Kaitlyn Jones and Analise Rayborn crushed home runs for the Stars in their 4-1 win.
OCU erased an early 1-0 deficit, going ahead in the third inning after
Brooklyn Mason doubled. Rayburn, the freshman from Yukon, Okla., studying business administration, hit the tying home run, giving her consecutive games with homers. Jones provided Oklahoma City the lead in the fifth with her first homer on the season.
Shelbey Cornelson struck out 11 while allowing one run on five hits. Cornelson, a senior exercise science major from Tuttle, Okla., improved to 4-2 this year.
In the second portion of the doubleheader,
Kamryn Garvie doubled home
Tiffany Paul and
Brooklyn Mason in the first. Garvie would eventually get home off a stolen base. OCU gathered two more runs in the second off ground balls and another stolen base.
Rally Radacy put OCU ahead by eight runs on a double down the right-field line that scored
Carlee Mollet.
Lexi Duff and
Brynlee Alsip combined to hold Friends to two hits as Alsip struck out one.
Oklahoma City will play Our Lady of the Lake (Texas) in a 2 p.m. twin bill Monday at Ann Lacy Stadium.