The Basics
Games 29-31
Houston Baptist (6-21, 4-12 Southland) at
Oral Roberts (12-16, 5-3 Summit)
Dates: April 9-11, 2021 |
ORU Sports Network |
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Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
(J.L. Johnson Stadium)
TULSA, Okla. – After a five-game road trip, the Oral Roberts baseball team will return to Tulsa to take on Houston Baptist, beginning Friday, April 9. The two teams will play a three-game series with single games on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
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Summit League Notes: Week 8
About the Opponent
- Oral Roberts leads the all-time series against Houston Baptist, 2-1.
- Houston Baptist comes into the weekend with a 6-21 record overall and a 4-12 record in Southland Conference play.
- Throughout the first weeks of the season, Houston Baptist took on in-state powerhouses Rice, Texas Tech, and Texas A&M.
- Last weekend, the Huskies dropped three of four games at home to conference-foe Lamar.
Quick Hits
- The three-game set is sandwiched between two different five-game road trips for ORU.
- Joshua Cox, Blake Hall, Evan Kowalski, and Isaac Coffey have all earned Summit League Player of the Week honors in the 2021 season.
- ORU's offense has exploded in the last three games, scoring 40 runs and launching 10 home runs.
- Nine different Golden Eagles have hit home runs in the last three games – Cox (2), Anthony Martinez, Alec Jones, Caleb Denny, Jordan Wiley, Coffey, Ryan Cash, Brody Gibson, and Jake McMurray.
- This will be the last non-conference series for the Golden Eagles in 2021. ORU will conclude non-conference play on Tuesday when the team travels to Stillwater to take on No. 11 Oklahoma State.
- Last weekend, ORU went to Macomb, Illinois took three of four games from Western Illinois.
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