FORT WORTH, Texas-
Chris Elder's one-out grand slam in the bottom of the
sixth inning lifted Oral Roberts to an 8-4 elimination game victory
over TCU, Sunday at Lupton Stadium. The Golden Eagles next face
Dallas Baptist at 7 p.m. Sunday, and will need to win in order to
force a decisive second game on Monday night.
Coupled with Saturday's 7-0 win over Oklahoma, the Golden Eagles
eliminated one-quarter of the 2010 College World Series field in
their last two games.
With ORU (38-21) clinging to a 4-3 lead, Elder drove a 1-2 offering
from Teddy Nowell over the wall in right field for his second
career post-season grand slam to give the Golden Eagles an 8-3
lead. The home run was the sixth career post-season homer for Elder
in 12 career postseason games.
TCU (43-19) scratched across a run in the top of the ninth but got
nothing more
After both teams failed to score in the first two innings, TCU
broke through with two runs in the top of the third. The first run
scored when leftfielder
Chris Elder mishandled a ground ball single by
Jantzen Witte, allowing Jerome Pena to score from second. Joe Weik
followed two batters later with a sacrifice fly to give the Horned
Frogs a 2-0 lead.
ORU answered with four runs in the bottom of the third. RBI singles
by
Brandon King and Cam Schiller, a sacrifice fly by
Jared Schlehuber and a
T.J. Bennett run-scoring base hit gave the Golden
Eagles a 4-0 lead.
TCU cut the lead in half in the sixth.
Sean Johnson relieved
Joe Spring - who tossed three shutout innings - and
allowed a lead-off walk, a balk and an RBI double as the Frogs
pulled to within 4-3.
ORU finished with 12 hits, with
Brandon King 3-for-3 effort leading the way. Baligod
and
Bennett Pickar each had two hits.
Spring (5-1) got the win after allowing one hit in 2.2 innings. In
all, six ORU pitchers allowed just eight hits.
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