Oklahoma City University Athletics

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City held off Texas Wesleyan 7-6 on Friday to advance to Saturday's Sooner Athletic Conference Championship game at USAO.
 
The SAC final begins at 6 p.m.
 
Oklahoma City got an RBI single by Kaiden Spidell to break a scoreless tie in the second inning and in the fourth, Gabby Moreno stole second and scored on two throwing errors for a 2-0 lead.
 
The Rams tied the game in the bottom of the fourth but OCU went ahead 6-2 with four runs in the top of the fifth. Hadley Gibson sored on a wild pitch, Peyton Barrow had a two-run double and Moreno doubled in a run for a 6-2 lead.
 
TWU made it a 6-5 game in the fifth, but Tara Hoehner came up with an RBI double for a 7-5 lead.
 
TWU scored a run in the bottom of the sixth and got the potential tying run to first base with one out in the seventh before Morgandee Sawatzky started a 1-6-3 double play to earn the save.
 
McKenna Snyder got the win, pitching five innings.
 
The Stars had eight hits, including three by Moreno.