The Basics
Oral Roberts 10 – Northern Colorado 18
Oral Roberts (20-13, 8-5) – Northern Colorado (11-23, 4-11)
Location: Jackson Field (Greeley, Colorado)
Win: Jake Storey (1-2), Loss: Brendan Asher (1-1), Save: N/A
 
 
GREELEY, COLO.  - The Oral Roberts baseball team dropped game three against Northern Colorado in a high-scoring affair losing 18-10.
 
Cooper Combs hit his fifth homer of the year in game three a part of a two-hit, three-RBI afternoon for the Kansas transfer.
 
The Golden Eagles started fast yet again in the series finale in Greeley scoring twice in the top of the first off of Combs' two-run shot scoring Will Edmunson on the big fly.
 
In the bottom half, however, it was all Bears sending 13 to the plate scoring nine runs on nine hits which surpassed their hit total from game two.  ORU was forced to go to the bullpen in the first.
 
ORU would get one back in the top of the second as Jack Schark scored on a throwing error to home plate cutting it to a six-run deficit. 
 
Northern Colorado would come back with two runs in the second and third innings however and they'd take a 13-3 lead after just three innings. 
 
After both offenses settled down, the ORU bats came to life in the sixth, scoring four times to bring the deficit to six, highlighted by Martell Davis' bases-clearing double. In the seventh, the Golden Eagles got two more in on Ethan Fender's third homer of the season, shrinking the Bear lead to four. 
 
However, that would be as close as the Golden Eagles would get, as the Bears took back control scoring once in the bottom of the seventh and four times in the bottom of the eighth, taking the series 18-10.
 
Inside the Box Score 
-            Will Edmunson's hit streak extended to 13 games on an infield single in the eighth
-            Owen Coil put together a four-game, just the third Golden Eagle to do so this season
-            Braydon Sanford put together 4.0 innings of shutout baseball allowing one hit and striking out five
 
Game Notes
-            ORU has had at least 10 hits in the last five games
-            18 runs is the largest total given up by the Golden Eagles this season
-            Oral Roberts dropped their first game to UNC in the all-time series
 
Up Next:
The Golden Eagles look to get back in the win column as they face Air Force in Colorado Springs at 2:00 p.m. (CST) to wrap up this portion of the nine-game road trip.
 
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