ARLINGTON, Texas (March 17, 2010) – The Oklahoma Christian baseball team dropped their second match against the University of Texas-Arlington on Wednesday in a 17-9 decision.

The Eagles were able to score runs against the Mavericks but found themselves outscored by eight runs at the end of nine innings.

UT-Arlington was the first to get on the board scoring five runs in the second inning. The Eagles responded, however, in the top of the third with four runs of their own.

Taylor Parcus, batting third, hit a double to send home Justin Ebert and Dillon Andrews. Four batters later, Zac Coshow connected on a single with the bases loaded sending in both Parcus and Jordan Price for two more scores.

Heading into the fourth inning the Eagles trailed by a run at 5-4 before the Mavericks sent home five more runners to take to a 10-4 lead.

After a scoreless fifth, the Eagles tallied another three scores attempting to stay in the game. Tyler Gipson scored the first run of the inning after Dillon Andrews hit a single and second base made an error on a throw allowing a run for home. Jeff Davis followed to tally a second score on the play. Dillon Andrews made the final score of the inning on a sacrifice fly by Parcus.

The Eagles came back with two more runs in the seventh inning to make the score 10-9 to again trail by only one run. Dustin Andrews made the first score heading home from second on a Chance Nichols' double. Nichols proceeded home three batters later when Davis hit a single.

UTA tallied one run in the bottom of the seventh before sending a devastating blow to the Eagles in the bottom of the eighth when six runners reached home.

Then trailing 17-9, the Eagles failed to score in the ninth leaving the victory in the hands of the Mavericks.

Chance Nichols led the Eagles at the plate hitting 2-for-3 and adding one run and an RBI. Dillon Andrews went 2-for-4 with a run and two RBI.

The loss is the Eagles' second to UTA and leaves their record at 10-9 and remains at 6-3 for the conference.

The OC baseball team will head home to host Wayland Baptist University on Thursday at 5 p.m. in a single nine-inning game.

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