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The Dallas Baptist Baseball Team got a monumental outing from Joseph Shaw on Tuesday night in a 9-1 win over the Oklahoma Sooners at L.Dale Mitchell Park in Norman, Oklahoma.  In his first start of the season and just the second start of his career, the sophomore from Ennis, Texas, tossed six shutout innings, allowing just one hit, while striking out three. 

DBU (29-15) got on the board in the first inning after Daniel Salters reached on a two-out error by Oklahoma's starting pitcher, Kindle Ladd.  One batter later, Austin Listi ripped a 2-2 pitch over the wall in right field to put the Patriots on top 2-0.  The homerun was Listi's team-leading seventh of the season. 

The Patriots would tack on two more runs in the third when David Martinelli tripled to the gap in right-center, scoring List from first base.  KJ Alexander followed with a sacrifice fly to deep right to hand DBU a 4-0 advantage.

Shaw would cruise through the first four-plus innings, retiring the first 13 batters he faced, before allowing a single to Oklahoma's Mac James.  The right-hander would retire the next two batters to get out of the inning unscathed.

After working a scoreless sixth, Shaw turned the game over in the seventh to Josh Urban.  The redshirt-senior would allow one unearned run in the eighth, which would be the lone Oklahoma (25-21) run on the night.

The Patriots scratched across two more runs of their own in their half of the eighth on an RBI single by Justin Wall and a one-run double from Nash Knight. 
In the ninth, DBU added three more insurance runs, highlighted by a two-run triple by Justin Wall, who would eventually come in to score on a wild pitch.

Austin Listi led the nine hit barrage by the Patriot offense, collecting four hits on the night for the first time in his career.  Knight and Wall also chipped in with multi-hit efforts with two hits apiece.

Sean Stutzman came on in relief of Urban in the eighth and tossed one scoreless inning, before Drew Smith closed out the game for the final two outs.
The win marks the seventh consecutive victory for the Patriots over Oklahoma, dating back to 2011.  The two teams will meet again at Horner Ballpark on May 13.

Dallas Baptist returns home for a three-game series versus Missouri State starting on Friday.  First pitch is scheduled for 6:30 pm.
 
DBU and Missouri State met earlier this year, March 14-15, in a three-game set in Springfield, Missouri, that did not count toward either team's conference records.  The Patriots swept that series, winning all three games in shutout fashion.