OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City University upended Texas Wesleyan 6-2 on Saturday at Jim Wade Stadium in Sooner Athletic Conference baseball tournament. 

Tyler Polk kept Texas Wesleyan, ranked 14th in the NAIA, off balance through eight-plus innings, while the Stars pounded three home runs. Oklahoma City (28-19) takes on Southwestern Assemblies of God (Texas) at 1 p.m. Sunday with a spot in the conference tournament title game at stake. OCU improved to 12-7 against ranked opponents this season.

Polk earned the victory by logging 8.1 innings, allowing two runs on six hits and three walks. Polk (4-2) struck out 10 and recorded 140 pitches. Polk struck out the side while escaping a bases-loaded jam in the seventh. Polk retired Texas Wesleyan in order in the third, fifth and eighth innings.  

In the ninth inning, Chad Pike struck out Texas Wesleyan's No. 3 hitter Greyson Barrett before getting the final out with the bases full. Pike, a senior right-handed business administration major from Watermill, N.Y., collected his first save. 

Polk, a senior righty from Duncan, Okla., majoring in aerospace operations, improved his career statistics in the postseason to a 2-1 record, 2.57 earned run average and 25 strikeouts in 35 innings pitched. 

In the second, OCU scored the first run as Trent Kiraly belted a 1-0 pitch over the left-field wall leading off the bottom half of the inning.  

The Stars extended their lead to three runs as Pike hammered a two-run blast beyond the left-field wall in the fifth. 

Barrett Daniel smacked an RBI double to the wall in left with two out in the sixth.  

Felix Chenier-Rondeau crushed a two-run homer beyond the right-field wall to put Oklahoma City ahead 6-1 in the eighth.