OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City University swept the Sooner Athletic Conference baseball series vs. Southwestern Assemblies of God (Texas) with 6-4 and 10-8 wins during Saturday's doubleheader at Jim Wade Stadium.
Hunter Brown played the hero as he went 2-for-3 in the second game with two home runs and four RBIs. The Stars moved to 18-16, 10-5 in the SAC on the year and took all three games against 24th-ranked Southwestern Assemblies of God.
OCU came from behind in the first game after the Lions scored four runs in the first inning. OCU shut Southwestern Assemblies of God out the rest of the way. Two runs in the first inning came on a two-run double from
Tristan Williams.
Reese Ratchford singled in two more runs in the fifth. He stole third and scored on an error for the fifth run.
Chad Pike smacked a solo shot to right-center for a 6-4 lead in the sixth.
Aiden Alexander and
Jesse Fonteboa both had two hits. Williams, Ratchford, and Pike got all of the Stars' RBIs off one hit each.
Tyler Polk (1-1) led the way as he struck out six while allowing three earned runs. Polk, a senior right-hander from Duncan, Okla., won the pitching battle against preseason NAIA all-American Michael Watson from SAGU. Watson (8-1) had not allowed more than three runs yet this season before the Stars smacked him for five runs and four earned runs.
In the second game of the double header, OCU and SAGU went back and forth, but it was OCU's long ball that helped them get the win. Fonteboa hit his third home run in his last four games in the first inning, giving the Stars a 3-1 lead. Williams scored later on a wild pitch.
The Lions came back and tied it 4-4 in the second, but OCU retook it with Browns solo homer in the third. A rough fifth inning for the Stars resulted in SAGU regaining the lead 8-6. That was until Brown, a junior from Yukon, Okla., hit his second bomb of the day giving OCU a 9-8 lead. A sacrifice fly from
Barrett Daniel summed up the Stars scoring in their 10-8 win.
Four pitchers were used for OCU as
Andrew Limbaugh got the start. He last two innings before
Connor Ferguson came in for the next two, striking out two.
Noah Kang picked up the win. Kang, a freshman from Edmond, Okla. came in the fifth and pitched 2.1 innings with two strikeouts.
The Stars meet Southwestern Christian at 2 p.m. Friday at Dolese Park in Oklahoma City.