Box Score
TULSA, Okla. - Home runs by Joey
Migliaccio and Chris
Williams helped lift the Oral Roberts University baseball team
on Saturday as the Golden Eagles rolled past McNeese State,
7-2.
ORU improved its Southland Conference record to 14-9 and 13
21-27 overall, while the Cowboys fell to 21-27 on the season with
an 8-15 SLC mark.
Freshman hurler Guillermo
Trujillo (2-0) earned his second victory of the season out of
the pen as he replaced Drew
Bowen following a weather delay. Trujillo threw 3.1 innings
with six hits and allowed one run to score, while Bowen finished
three innings, gave up just two hits and an earned run.
Kurt
Giller replaced Trujillo in the top of the seventh and allowed
just one hit in the final 2.2 innings.
Migliaccio got the first big fly of the afternoon with the
Cowboys leading the Golden Eagles, 2-1, in the bottom of the
fourth. After Williams reached on an error to start the inning,
Migliaccio turned on the first pitch of his at bat for a two-run
home run, his second of the season.
Migliaccio, Logan
Domenico and Tyler
Boss each finished with two hits.
After recording just four hits in the series opener on Friday,
the offense rattled off 11 hits in the contest.
ORU also made McNeese pay for a couple mistakes, turning two
errors into runs, including the first Golden Eagle run in the
bottom of the third. With Kevin
Cho standing on third, Jose
Trevino hit a dribbler back to the pitcher that was misplayed,
which allowed the runner to score.
Soon after the run was scored, a small thunderstorm sent the
contest into a one-hour and 27 minute weather delay.
Out of the delay, in the top of the fourth, Lucas Quary blasted
the second home run of the afternoon by the Cowboys. Andrew
Guillotte started the game for McNeese with a solo home run.
In the home half of the sixth, Domenico stepped in with the
bases loaded and delivered a one-out singled to right, driving in
Migliaccio and Graham
McIntyre. Williams then delivered the second ORU homer in the
game in the seventh to straight away center to plate Boss.
Tyler Parke (3-2) entered the game for the Cowboys after the
delay and took the loss in 2.1 innings of work. He allowed four
runs, three of which were earned, on five hits.
The Golden Eagles and Cowboys play the series victory on Sunday
afternoon at 1 p.m at J.L. Johnson Stadium with ORU Senior Day
festivities immediately following the game.