Box Score
The Patriot Baseball Team bats explode in a 19-6 victory over Oral Roberts University on Friday night. DBU used 18 hits, including six home runs to run away with the victory. With the win, DBU is now 12-6, while ORU fell to 12-5.
DBU started the scoring early when Sophomore Austin Knight led off the game with a single and Junior Evan Bigley hit a two run home run to make the score 2-0.
The Patriots pushed their lead to 6-0 in the top of the second inning after Junior Trevor Head led off the inning with a solo home run to right field. Sophomore Ryan Goins and Junior Brandon Bantz then walked, while Junior Clay Kelly reached base on a bunt single to load the bases. Goins then scored on a single by Knight and Bantz scored the third run on a ground out by Freshman Jason Krizan. Bigley drove in Kelly on a ground out to finish out the scoring.
ORU scored two runs in the bottom of the second and third innings on four hits and one Patriot error to make the score 6-2 after three innings of play.
Knight singled to center field to start off the fourth inning and like the first inning, Bigley drove him in on a two run home run for his second of the day, which extended the Patriots lead to 8-2.
The Golden Eagles scored an unearned run in the bottom of the fourth inning on two DBU errors, which cut the lead to 8-3.
Head hit is second home run of the game in the top of the fifth inning and Senior Drew Pirtle smashed a two run home run in the sixth inning to make the score 11-3.
Ryan Groth hit his second home run of the series in the bottom of the sixth inning, while a walk and a single in the seventh inning by the Eagles allowed one run to score to cut the Patriots lead to 11-6.
Krizan started off the seven run eighth inning with a double to right center field and then Bigley reached base on an error. Senior Nick Santos then drove in Krizan on a single and Head was hit by a pitch to load the bases for Sophomore Ryan Goins. Goins in return hit his first grand slam of his career over the right field wall. Kelly and Knight then walked to bring up Krizan again, who hit his second double of the inning, which allowed each base runner to score. Heading into the middle half of the eighth the Patriots held an 18-5 lead.
DBU added one more run in the top of the ninth inning when Santos singled, advanced to second on a walk by Freshman Bradshaw Perry, and scored on a single by Goins.
Picking up his third victory of the season was Junior Chris McMullen, who pitched 6.1 innings, allowing four earned runs, on seven hits.
Eight of the nine starters for the Patriots had hits, including seven of them having at least two hits. Bigley led the way going three for six, with two home runs, and five RBI, while Goins finished his night two for five, with four RBI. Head went three for four, with two RBI, two home runs, and three runs scored, while Knight was three for five, with three runs scored, and an RBI.
DBU will wrap up their three game series with ORU on Saturday afternoon at 2:00.
