Box Score
TULSA, Okla. -- For the second time in two
days, Oral Roberts and Kansas played a one-run baseball game. This
time, ORU came out on top.
Down 5-0 before they ever got a chance to bat, the Golden Eagles
rallied twice, and finally took the lead for good on Eric Keller's
eighth inning RBI single, as ORU defeated No. 17 Kansas 7-6,
Saturday at J.L. Johnson Stadium.
ORU (6-8), still reeling after allowing two runs in the ninth in
Friday's 2-1 loss to the Jayhawks, found themselves trailing 5-0 as
Kansas (17-6) battered ORU starter Kris Kline for five runs and
five hits in the first, before Kline left after retiring just one
batter.
But the Golden Eagles -- thanks in large part to an outstanding
relief performance from junior right-hander Sean Sorrow -- stayed
in the game and pecked away at KU starter Josh Duran, cashing him
from the game with a three-run fourth. An RBI double by David
Castillo and run scoring singles by Matt VanDerBosch and Josh Lex
put ORU within 5-3.
Castillo tied the game in the fifth with a two-run homer, his
third dinger of the season.
The Golden Eagles took a 6-5 lead with an unearned run in the
bottom of the sixth. VanDerBosch singled, stole second and advanced
to third on a groundout by Lex. He then scored when KU third
baseman Travis Metcalf misplayed Scott Campbell's grounder.
But the Jayhawks tied the game at six on Matt Baty's pinch-hit
single in the top of the eighth.
