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Box Score 2 The Pioneer baseball team snapped a six-game Sooner Athletic Conference losing streak on Friday afternoon with a 10-2 win in the opening game of a doubleheader against Oklahoma Christian University. Wayland dropped the nightcap, however, 11-8.
Marcus Limon picked up his fourth win and third complete game of the season, allowing one earned run on six hits. The senior struck out 11 in seven innings of work.
OC got on the board first with two doubles in the top of the third. WBU tied it at one in the bottom of the inning on Aldo Mendez's eighth home run of the season, a line drive into the left field dugout.
The Pioneer offense finally got going in the sixth, scoring nine runs on seven hits. Mendez led the inning off with a single to left and then stole second. After Miguel Pagan reached on an error, WBU executed a double steal to put both runners in scoring position for Kevin Hennessey. The senior first baseman roped a line drive to the gap in left center to plate both runs.
Nic Shadle and Oscar Rivera picked up a RBI each with singles in the inning. Eddie Allen knocked in two with his second double of the game, Mendez had a one-run double, and Pagan launched a two-run bomb to close out the scoring.
The Eagles started the second game with a six-run first inning. WBU starter Gabe Sandersius lasted just a third of an inning, giving up all six runs on three hits, two walks and two Pioneer errors.
Freshman Mikey Nabarrette came in and got the final two outs of the first. The Pioneers scored one in their half of the frame when Hennessey singled home Allen, who had walked and stole second.
With one out in the second, Nabarrette took a line drive off the right side of his head. The Odessa High graduate was carried off the field on a stretcher and taken to a local hospital for further evaluation.
Junior southpaw Kevin Burbank took the mound once play was resumed and struck out the next two OC batters.
Wayland made it 6-2 when Shadle singled up the middle, advanced to second on a groundout, and scored on a throwing error.
Three more Pioneer runs in the third closed the gap to 6-5. Hennessey blasted a two-run shot over the center field fence, and Ben Christian, who made two outstanding defensive plays in the game, brought home Brian Embery on a base hit.
Neither team's offense could produce a run in the fourth or fifth. OC finally got to Burbank in the sixth, crossing the plate four times on two hits and two Wayland errors. Dustin Andrews had the big knock for the Eagles with a three-run double.
WBU answered with three in their half of the inning to make it 10-8. Aldo Mendez walked and was brought home on Eddie Allen's first homer of the year, and then Pagan followed with his second home run of the day.
OC, which improved to 11-5 overall and 5-2 in conference play, picked up an insurance run in the seventh on a solo home run off the bat of Josh Balch.
The two teams wrap up the series on Saturday with a nine-inning game beginning at 1 p.m.
