The Basics
Score: Oral Roberts 10 – Northern Colorado 1
Records: ORU (26-14, 10-4), Northern Colorado (10-30, 6-11)
Location: Greeley, Colo. (Jackson Field)
Win: Ledgend Smith (6-3) | Loss: Iain Isdale (1-4) | Save: Andrew Roach (1)
 
GREELEY, Colo. – The Oral Roberts baseball team registered their seventh straight road win Saturday afternoon as they defeated Northern Colorado, 10-1, in Summit League action from Greeley, Colorado. With the victory, the Golden Eagles secured the series win against the Bears.
 
Ledgend Smith picked up his league-leading sixth victory of the season after allowing one run over five innings on the bump and striking out four. In relief, Andrew Roach collected his first save as a Golden Eagle after throwing four scoreless frames and fanning five.
 
Joshua Cox, Brody Gibson and Jake McMurray each plated a pair of runs to lead ORU offensively. Caleb Denny totaled a game-high three hits, while Holden Breeze and Isaac Coffey tallied two.
 
A sacrifice fly by Gibson opened the scoring in the second as the senior plated Coffey to make it 1-0, ORU.
 
After Northern Colorado tied it in the third, AJ Archambo put the Golden Eagles back in front, 2-1, with an RBI single to left in the top half of the fourth. Three batters later, McMurray ripped a double to left-center to plate two more ORU runs.
 
In the fifth, Breeze crossed the plate on a throwing error by the third baseman, extending the advantage to 5-1.
 
An RBI double by Jackson Loftin followed by an RBI single from Breeze in the sixth pushed the Golden Eagle lead to 7-1.
 
Joshua Cox roped a two-run double down the right-field line in the eighth to stretch the lead to 9-1. Gibson followed with an RBI double that plated Cox and made the final tally 10-1 in favor of the Golden Eagles.

Inside the Box Score
- Ten different Golden Eagles registered a hit in the win.
- Denny (3), Breeze (2) and Coffey (2) registered multiple hits.
- The trio also crossed the plate two times each.
- Coffey recorded his first career triple in the fourth.
- Cox, Gibson and McMurray each plated two runs apiece in the win.
- Gibson pushed his hit streak to five games and has driven in multiple runs in back-to-back contests.
- Loftin extended his hit streak to 12 in the victory.
- Connor Beichler drew a career-high four walks.
- Smith worked five innings, allowed one run and struck out four en route to his sixth win of the campaign.
- Roach picked up the save in relief after punching out five in four scoreless innings of work.
 
Notes
- With the win, ORU is now 9-0 all-time against the Bears and have outscored Northern Colorado 100-24.
- The series win is the Golden Eagles' fifth of the season.
- ORU now sits only two wins away from 2,000 as a program after the victory.

Up Next
The Golden Eagles and Bears conclude their three-game set tomorrow at 1 p.m. central time from Jackson Field.

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