Box Score
TULSA�€"Oral Roberts University pounded out a
season-high 17 hits, including four home runs, as the Golden Eagles
rolled to a 15-2 win over Creighton on Sunday at J.L. Johnson
Stadium, completing a three-game series sweep.
Dennis Bigley (
Lancaster, Texas), Scott Modeste (Sacramento,
Calif.), Ricky
Rivera (Santa Isabel, P.R.) and Boomer Welles (Beverly
Hills, Calif.) all hit home runs for the Golden Eagles. Welles hit
a 3-run blast in the first, Modeste hit a solo bomb in the fourth,
Bigley hit a solo homer in the eighth, and Rivera followed two
batters later with a two-run shot.
ORU scored six times in
the bottom of the first, turning a 1-0 deficit into a 6-1 lead.
Grant Plumley
(Lake Forest, Calif.) had an RBI double, Rivera drove in a run with
a sac fly, Modeste knocked in a run with a single, and Welles
followed his first home run of the season for a 6-1 ORU lead.
The Golden Eagles made
it 9-1 with three runs in the second as second baseman Brian Hanson
(Kelseyville, Calif.), Bigley and Rivera all drove in runs.
ORU added single runs
in the third, fourth and fifth innings for an 11-2 lead before
Bigley and Rivera connected in the bottom of the eighth for the
final score.
Conner Tinkler (Ada, Okla.)
was strong in relief of starter Taylor McIntyre (Edmond, Okla.),
who failed to make it out of the first inning. Tinkler (1-1)
allowed one run on six hits in 3.2 innings while striking out two.
Tim Robertson (Huntington Beach, Calif.) earned
his first save of the season by hurling 4.2 hitless innings of
relief, fanning three batters along the way.
Six different players
enjoyed multi-hit games, with Bigley and Matt
VanDerBosch (Hastings, Minn.) each getting three hits.
VanDerBosch doubled twice and also scored twice, while Bigley drove
in two runs. Plumley, Rivera, Modeste and Kevin
Lamb (Owasso, Okla.) each had two hits.
Creighton (3-6) starter
Jeff Daneff (1-1) suffered the defeat after allowing nine runs in
one-plus innings of work.
The Golden Eagles
return to action when they host 2003 College World Series
participant Southwest Missouri State, 3 p.m., Tuesday.
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