Box Score BETHANY, Okla. - It was not a good weekend for the Wayland Baptist baseball team. The Pioneers lost their sixth straight Sooner Athletic Conference game when Southern Nazarene scored six runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to defeat WBU 9-7.
SNU jumped out to a 3-1 lead after three innings. They scored a single run in the first after Pioneer starter Mikey Nabarette walked the bases loaded and then hit a batter with two outs.
Wayland's Nic Shadle tied it up in the second with a solo home run, his second long ball of the season. The home team scored two more in the third on a hit, two more walks, and a fielder's choice, but the Pioneers came back with one in the fourth, two in the sixth, and one each in the seventh, eighth and ninth to take a 6-3 lead.
Despite recording 14 hits in the contest, the Pioneers left the bases loaded in the fourth, and stranded men in scoring position in each of the final four innings.
Nabarratte threw the first 3-2/3 innings, allowing three runs, two earned, on two hits, but walked five. Gabe Sandersius got the last out of the fourth and then retired the Storm in order in the next three innings.
SNU got to the senior southpaw in the eighth with three straight singles. After a strikeout, Sandersius' fifth of the game, number nine hitter Alex Hill roped a two-run double down the rightfield line.
Derrick Sampel came in to relieve Sandersius and promptly surrendered another two-run double to put the Storm back on top for good.
The Pioneers had a chance in the top of the ninth. Kevin Hennessey led off with a single to left center. Brian Embery picked up his second hit of the game with a base hit through the left side of the infield. After a fielder's choice and an error, Hennessey was caught off third for the second out.
Ben Christian got a run-scoring single, his third RBI of the game, to score Shadle and force a pitching change. Oscar Rivera followed with a walk, but Calvin Bass flew out to right to end the game.
Eddie Allen had three hits for the Pioneers. Shadle knocked in two and scored three of the four times he was on base. Embery had the only other extra base hit, a RBI double in the seventh.
The Pioneers (10-13, 0-6) will attempt to get their first conference win of the season this coming weekend with a three-game series at Wilder Field against Oklahoma Christian University. Friday's doubleheader is slated to start at 4 p.m.
