Box Score For the second time in three games, #7 Oklahoma City University used a late rallly to pull out a win against Wayland. On Saturday, the Stars crossed the plate five times in the top of the ninth inning to take an 18-14 victory and complete a three-game sweep of the Pioneers at Wilder Field.
The Pioneers trailed OCU 6-1 after the Stars scored four in the first and added two more in the fourth. Wayland tied it up with five runs in the bottom of the fourth, highlighted by Miguel Pagan's three-run blast over the left centerfield fence.
Oklahoma City regained the lead in the fifth on back-to-back home runs by Scott Dalrymple and Chad Carman, but WBU exploded with a seven-run fifth and then got one more in the sixth to pull in front 14-9.
Oscar Rivera led off the bottom of the fifth with a walk. Calvin Bass followed with his third infield single of the game, and Eddie Allen walked to load the bases for Aldo Mendez who took the first pitch he saw and launched it over the fence in right field.
The Pioneers got two more unearned runs in the inning on a run-scoring fielder's choice by Rivera and a RBI single by Bass. Brian Embery doubled home Pagan in the sixth to complete scoring for WBU.
The Stars closed the gap to one with two runs in each of the seventh and eighth innings. In the ninth inning rally, they got six hits, including two doubles and a home run, before ever recording an out.
The two teams combined for 38 hits in the game. OCU had six doubles and four home runs among its 23 hits, while the Pioneers got one double and the two homers among their 15 hits. Eleven WBU batters also reached base via the walk. Bass and Allen each had four hits in the game. Mendez drove in five runs, and Pagan knocked in four. The junior third baseman had just the one hit, but walked three times.
Wayland left the bases loaded in the first, second, and eighth innings, and 11 batters were retired with a strikeout.
The Pioneers, now 9-10 overall and 0-3 in league action, host McMurry University in a nonconference game on Tuesday afternoon. First pitch is scheduled to be thrown at 3 pm.
