TULSA, Okla. �€" The Oral Roberts University baseball team completed its three-game sweep of the University of Texas-Pan American with a 6-0 shutout Sunday afternoon at JL Johnson stadium. Outfielder Ricky Rivera's (Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico) bases-loaded double in the eighth broke open a 1-0 contest as the Golden Eagles (12-6) have now won five games in a row.

Pitchers Rene Recio (Corpus Christi, Texas), Daniel Greenwalt (LaHabra, Calif.), and Tim Robertson (Huntington Beach, Calif.) combined to toss a two-hitter for ORU, never allowing the Broncs (8-19) to get a runner past first base. After Recio pitched five innings of one-hit baseball, Grennwalt (2-0) came on in relief to earn his second win of the year.

Neither team could muster much offense through the first seven innings, as the game remained a scoreless tie as the Golden Eagles came to bat in their half of the eighth.

Shortstop Michael Hollimon (Dallas, Texas) led things off with a single and advanced to second on second baseman Brian Hanson's (Kelseyville, Calif.) sacrifice bunt. Third baseman John Tackett (Tulsa, Okla.) then singled through the right side, scoring Hollimon from second.

The next two batters walked, setting the stage for Rivera's bases clearing double and a 4-0 ORU advantage.

Rivera would score two batters later on a sacrifice fly by catcher Brian Aguailar (Lompoc, Calif.).

Designated hitter Travis DeBondt (Bakersfield, Calif.) would finish off the scoring with a single to center field that plated right fielder Kevin Lamb (Owasso, Okla.), stretching the Golden Eagle lead to 6-0.

Robertson came in and worked a perfect ninth to finish off the game.

ORU will return to action on Tuesday night, when they host #22 Wichita State in a mid-week affair with first pitch set for 7:00 p.m. The game can be viewed locally on Cox Cable channel 3 or on the radio on KCFO 970. It can also be heard via the internet at www.orugoldeneagles.com.

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