ORU gets road win over OSU
STILLWATER — The Oral Roberts University Golden Eagles baseball team used the bats to power their way to an impressive 10-6 over the Oklahoma State Cowboys on Tuesday night at O’Brate Stadium.
Will Edmunson continued his hit streak to 10 games behind a pair of doubles and a single in a 3-for-5 effort driving in two runs for the Golden Eagles (18-12).
Nolan Schubart made history and Ian Daugherty homered twice, but it wasn’t enough for the Cowboys (15-15).
Daugherty, Schubart and Brock Thomps...
STILLWATER — The Oral Roberts University Golden Eagles baseball team used the bats to power their way to an impressive 10-6 over the Oklahoma State Cowboys on Tuesday night at O’Brate Stadium.
Will Edmunson continued his hit streak to 10 games behind a pair of doubles and a single in a 3-for-5 effort driving in two runs for the Golden Eagles (18-12).
Nolan Schubart made history and Ian Daugherty homered twice, but it wasn’t enough for the Cowboys (15-15).
Daugherty, Schubart and Brock Thompson each had two hits for the Pokes, while Brayden Smith extended his hitting streak to 17 games.
On the bump for ORU was Conner Johnson (1-2) getting the start, and he did not disappoint throwing three innings surrendering just three hits, an earned run, a walk and a season-high seven strikeouts.
Drew Blake made his first start of the season for the Cowboys and took the loss to fall to 1-2. The southpaw worked two innings, striking out three and allowing two runs.
The Golden Eagles came out firing scoring twice in the first inning taking advantage of one of four Cowboy errors and Makani Tanaka grabbed an RBI with a single.
The Cowboys got on the scoreboard in the third inning, with Thompson knocking a lead-off single and Smith bringing him home with an RBI single.
ORU came back with three more runs in the fourth. Ethan Fender picked up an RBI single driving in Jack Schark who reached on an error, then moments later it was Edmunson getting back to it with a two-run double to make it a 5-1 game.
OSU answered in the bottom of the frame, notching two runs on Thompson’s second hit of the day, this one a double to deep right field.
In the bottom of the fifth, Schubart hit his team-leading eighth home run of the season to make it a 5-4 game. It was Schubart’s 48th career home run as a Cowboy, moving him into the top 10 in program history.
In the sixth freshman Owen Coil stayed hot in the designated hitter spot driving in an RBI with a double a part of a multi-hit effort for a 6-4 advantage.
In the bottom of the seventh, Daugherty cleared the left-field wall for his fourth home run of the season to once again make it a one-run game at 6-5.
The ORU offense put the game out of reach scoring four times thanks to a Wailele Kane-Yates RBI single, Keaton Campbell driving in a run on a groundout and Tanaka picking up his second RBI single as well as Fender for a 10-5 lead.
The Cowboys managed just one more run, that coming on Daugherty’s second homer of the night with two outs in the ninth inning.
The Cowboys will head to Tuscon, Ariz., for a Big 12 Conference weekend series against the host Arizona Wildcats, with the first game at 8 tonight followed by another 8 p.m. game on Saturday and a 2 p.m. Sunday game to end the series.
The Golden Eagles will return to Summit League play with a road series against North Dakota State in Fargo, N.D. The series opener is set for 6:30 tonight, followed by a 2 p.m. Saturday game and a 1 p.m. Sunday contest.
