The Basics
St. Thomas 3 – Oral Roberts 2 | St. Thomas 8 – Oral Roberts 2
Oral Roberts (15-11, 4-4) – St.Thomas (13-10, 7-1)
Location: Chapman Park (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
Game 1: Win: Marcus Kruzan (4-0), Loss: Easton Teel (1-1), Save: Zak Endres (1)
Game 2: Win: Walker Retz (3-0), Loss: Nathan Love (3-4), Save: N/A
 
 
ST. PAUL, MINN. —The Oral Roberts baseball team was swept in Friday's doubleheader dropping the first two games of the series 3-2 and 8-2 against St. Thomas.
 
Runs were hard to come by for ORU throughout the afternoon and gin ame one they found themselves in a 3-0 hole.  The Tommies got the scoring started with one in the third on an error and tacked on two more on a homer in the fourth.
 
Easton Teel went 6.0 innings giving up just three runs and striking out five in his start keeping Oral Roberts in it throughout. 
 
The Golden Eagles would strike back in the sixth and seventh innings with Keaton Campbell's RBI single and an Owen Coil solo homer, the second of his collegiate career. 
 
ORU was unable to get anything going in the eighth and ninth and dropped agme one by one, 3-2.
 
In game two it was more of the same, good starting pitching from the Tommies left ORU searching for answers at the dish. 
 
The Golden Eagles had a great opportunity to start the scoring in the first but the run was cut down at home.  In the bottom half, St. Thomas wasted no time scoring three highlighted by a solo homer.
 
In the second it was more Tommie offense scoring two more times on a two-run homer to take a 5-0 lead just two innings in.
 
In the fourth ORU showed signs of life scoring twice on a Makani Tanaka sacrifice fly and an Ethan Fender RBI double scoring Jack Schark to cut the deficit to two. 
 
Dalton Patten came in for long relief for Nathan Love who started the game and retired the first five batters he saw.  In the sixth thought the St. Thomas bats caught up and scored three more times homering for the third time in game two to stretch the lead to six.
 
The Golden Eagles couldn't match the pace offensively, ultimately going 1-2-3 in the ninth and dropping game two of the doubleheader 8-2.
 
Inside the Box Score 
-           Owen Coil hit his second career homer in game one Friday afternoon
-            Ethan Fender recorded an RBI in his first start since March 19^th
-            Easton Teel's first two starts have gone at least six innings
 
Game Notes
-           ORU has now dropped their second conference doubleheader of the season (NDSU)
-            The Golden Eagles are 2-6 on the road and have scored just six runs over their last three games
 
Up Next:
The Golden Eagles wrap up the weekend series with St. Thomas from Koch Diamond in St. Paul on Saturday afternoon at one.
 
 
 
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