Box Score The Basics
Game One: Oral Roberts 9 – Northern Colorado 5
Oral Roberts (19-12, 7-4) – Northern Colorado (10-22, 3-10)
Location: Jackson Field (Greeley, Colorado)
Win: Easton Teel (3-1), Brady Hudson (1-1), Save: N/A
 
 
GREELEY, COLO.  - The Oral Roberts baseball team scored six times in the eighth inning to rally and take the series opener 9-5 over Northern Colorado.
 
Right-hander Easton Teel put together another quality start by going 6.0 innings giving up just three hits, three runs, one walk, and struck out two en route to his third win of the season.
 
The Golden Eagles, just as they did in Stillwater, started fast opening the scoring in the second inning on an RBI ground out from Keaton Campbell which scored Jack Schark who advanced to their earlier in the inning on a throwing error. 
 
After going eight up, and eight down, the Bears struck back with a solo homer to tie the game at one in the third.  Two innings later, Northern Colorado would use the long ball again hitting a two-run homer taking a 3-1 lead.
 
As both starters found their groove the two-run lead would be taken to the top of the seventh where ORU would get back on the board with a Cooper Combs sacrifice fly scoring Owen Coil to cut the deficit in half.
 
Then, in the eighth, the Golden Eagles bats really came to life, scoring six times on Martell Davis's hit by pitch with the bases loaded, a Will Edmunson sacrifice fly scoring Tyler Borderick, a Combs three-run homer, and a Makani Tanaka RBI single. Jared Ure would shut down the eighth inning with a 1-2-3 bottom half and a pair of punch outs out of the bullpen.
 
In the top of the ninth Coil gave ORU an extra run of insurance with his fourth homer of the season making it a six-run lead.  In the bottom half the Bears wouldn't go away quietly scoring two more runs but that would be all they'd get as Oral Roberts took game one 9-5.
 
Inside the Box Score 
-           Will Edmunson's hit streak extended to 11 games
-           Cooper Combs grabbed four RBIs to grow his team-leading total to 28
-           Easton Teel grabbed his fourth straight quality start of the season
 
Game Notes
-            ORU has now won four straight after losing four straight
-            The Golden Eagles still have never lost to the Bears (14-0-1 all-time)
-            Ryan Folmar is only 11 wins away from becoming the winningest head coach in program history
 
Up Next:
The Golden Eagles look to capture the weekend series at 1 p.m. (CST) over Northern Colorado from Jackson Field in Greeley, Colorado
 
 
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