Oral Roberts baseball powers up to beat Wichita State 7-4
There was no power outage for Oral Roberts on Tuesday night in Tulsa.
The Golden Eagles slugged five solo homers, two doubles and a triple in beating Wichita State 7-4.
Despite yielding five homers, which tied for the most allowed in Shocker history, WSU had its chances to win.
Trailing 6-3 in the seventh, Gunner Troutwine and Alex Jackson singled. Josh DeBacker reached on a fielder’s choice, putting runners at first and third. Jordan Boyer struck out, but Jacob Katsfey singled in Troutwine. With the runners on second and third, Luke Ritter struck out.
The Shockers (11-9) pushed across three runs to take a 3-2 lead in the fourth. Katzfey singled, Ritter walked and Greyson Jenista popped up to short. Alec Bohm singled in Katzfey, and Vickers got Ritter home on a squeeze play. Toutwine’s double send Bohm home with the go-ahead run.
Nick Roark, Sam Grellner, Brent Williams, Trevor McCutchin and Cal Hernandez hit solo homers for ORU (13-7). Grellner and Williams hit back-to-back homers in the sixth, the first homers allowed by WSU reliever Adam Keller.
Notes: WSU has been outscored 18-3 in the first innings . . . The Shockers fall to 2-9 on the road. They return home Wednesday to face Sacramento State. WSU has won 10 in a row at home, the sixth longest streak in the nation. . . . In the seventh, second baseman Ritter failed to pick up a ground ball. It was WSU’s first error in four games. . . . Bohm’s hit with runners in scoring position in the fourth, broke an 0 for 22 streak with runners in scoring position. WSU finished 3 for 15 batting with runners in scoring position. Bohn has now reached base in 16 straight games (via hit, walk or hit-by-pitch). . . . The most home runs allowed by Shocker pitching came in 1980 by UNLV with six. . . .WSU leads the ORU series, 33-29 and is 12-12 in Tulsa.
WSU | ORU | ||||||||
ab | r | h | bi | ab | r | h | bi | ||
Katzfey lf | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | Snypes ss | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Ritter 2b | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Roark 2b | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Jenista rf | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Whatley dh-c | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Bohm 1b | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Cummings cf-rf | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Vickers ss | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Grellner rf | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Troutwine c | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | Shelton cf | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Croft pr | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Williams c-1b | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Jackson cf | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | McCutchin 1b | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Dugas dh | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Hungate lf | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
DeBacker dh | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Hernandez 3b | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Boyer 3b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Totals | 33 | 4 | 9 | 4 | Totals | 33 | 7 | 10 | 7 |
WSU | 000 | 300 | 100 | — | 4 9 1 |
ORU | 101 | 022 | 10x | — | 7 10 0 |
E: DP: WSU, ORU. 2B: Jackson, Troutwine, Jenista, Hernandez, Hungate. 3B: Snypes. HR: Roark, Hernandez, McCutchin, Grellner, Williams. S: Vickers. SB: Roark, Snypes. CS: Katzfey.
Wichita State | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Barnhouse L,1-1 | 4 2/3 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
Keller | 1 1/3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Evans | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Heuer | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Oral Roberts | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Michaels W,1-0 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
Varnell | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Howe | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Stout S,2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
WP: Michaels, Varnell, Howe, Stout. HBP: Grellner (by Evans), Troutwine (by Stout). T: na. A: na.
This story was originally published March 21, 2017 at 10:10 PM with the headline "Oral Roberts baseball powers up to beat Wichita State 7-4."