Box Score The Basics
Oral Roberts  9 – South Dakota State 2
Oral Roberts (34-20, 21-9) – South Dakota State (16-34, 12-18)
Location: Erv Huether Field
Win: Brendan Asher (2-2), Loss: Dylan Richey (1-2), Save: N/A
 
BROOKINGS, SD. - The Oral Roberts baseball team dominated offensively to sweep South Dakota State and clinch a share of the Summit League regular season title on Saturday afternoon.
 
It is ORU's 21^st Summit League regular season title and they are the one seed heading into the Summit League Tournament in Omaha starting Wednesday at Noon. 
 
The Golden Eagles were active with the bats early, compiling five hits across the first three innings but having no runs to show for it. They got on the board in the fourth inning as Martell Davis drove in a run with a single and Will Edmunson knocked another in with a sacrifice fly.
 
Oral Roberts would come back with two more in the fifth with Ethan Fender's sacrifice fly and Keaton Campbell with an RBI single moments later. 
 
Freshman right-hander Brendan Asher put together another quality start, tossing 6.0 innings, giving up five hits, two runs, one earned, two walks, and striking out four in his ninth start this season.
 
The Jackrabbits would get on the board in the bottom half with two of their own, with an RBI single and a sacrifice fly, but that would be all they would get.
 
In the sixth Jack Schark hit a sacrifice fly scoring another run making it a 5-2 ballgame, he reached four times on Saturday.
 
The Golden Eagles put the game out of reach in the eighth with four runs, started by a solo homer from Edmunson, a two-run single from Makani Tanaka, and then a Matthew Brandt RBI double down the right field line.
 
Dalton Patten came out of the pen in the ninth to close the door, and that he did, securing a 9-2 win for the Golden Eagles and grabbing their 21^st Summit League regular season title.   
 
Inside the Box Score 
-            ORU has scored nine or more runs in their last five games, hitting 18 homers in their last eight
-            ORU put up their second-highest hit total of the season with 17 on Saturday
-            Brendan Asher tossed his fourth quality start of the season
 
Game Notes
-            ORU has won Summit League regular season titles in two of the last three years
-            ORU has hit 18 homers in their last seven games
-            The Golden Eagles finish the regular season winning eight straight conference games
-            Oral Roberts is a season-best 14 games above .500 and is 5-0 against SDSU
 
 
Up Next:
The Golden Eagles are the one-seed in the Summit League Tournament. They will kick off postseason play at Noon on Wednesday against the four-seed, South Dakota State, in Omaha, Nebraska.
 
 
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