Senior Pitcher Terrance Jackson won his pitching debut of the year vs. Lindenwood (Mo.) on April 10.
OKLAHOMA CITY – OCU blitzed Lindenwood (Mo.) 15-2 April 10 at the Lou Brock Sports Complex.
Terrance Jackson won in his pitching debut of the year, while Matt Presley nailed a home run for the Stars. OCU, ranked No. 1 in NAIA baseball, improved to 32-6.
Jackson, a senior left-hander from Greenville, Ala., shut Lindenwood out on three hits, a hit batsman and a walk through four innings. Jackson notched four strikeouts. Clint Maune followed with two innings, while Steve Styck pitched the seventh and struck out the side for OCU.
The Stars built a 15-0 lead and scored each inning the first five innings. OCU plated five first-inning runs using Miguel Beltran’s two-run base hit, Presley’s RBI single and Chad Carman’s two-run double.
In the second, Beltran drove in a run on a fielder’s choice grounder. Scott Dalrymple added a sacrifice fly before Presley pounded a two-run blast for his fifth homer of the year.
Julien Pollard doubled to put OCU ahead 10-0 in the third. Carman drew a bases-loaded walk in the fourth.
Dalrymple had an RBI base hit, then Presley hit a sacrifice fly in the fifth. Dearth Parker put the Stars up 15-0 on a two-run single.
OCU totaled 13 hits. Presley, a senior from Colorado Springs, Colo., went 2-for-2, scored twice and drove in four runs, while Beltran, a junior from Long Beach, Calif., was 3-for-5 with three runs scored and three RBIs.
Parker, a senior from Roff, Okla., was 2-for-3 with two RBIs, and Pollard, a senior from Tacoma, Wash., went 2-for-3 with two runs scored and a run driven in. Ruben Sosa, a junior from Lawrence, Mass., went 2-for-3 and scored three times, while Carman, a junior from Midwest City, Okla., drove in three runs. Dalrymple, a senior from Beaverton, Ore., brought in two runs.
OCU resumes Sooner Athletic Conference play with a 3 p.m. contest Tuesday against Southern Nazarene in Bethany, Okla.
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