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CHICKASHA, Okla. (Feb. 27, 2009) – Oklahoma Christian University gave Science and Arts of Oklahoma everything it wanted for a third-straight game Friday before the Drovers pulled out a 6-5 comeback win.

The score was tied 5-5 in the eighth inning when USAO got a sacrifice fly from Greg Ylda to go on top for good. The Eagles drop the season series to the Drovers after splitting two games yesterday at Dobson Field. OC's 7-6 win in the series opener snapped a 10-game USAO win streak.

The loss takes the Eagles to 6-8 overall and 2-4 in the Sooner Athletic Conference. USAO improved to 17-2 and 5-1 in the SAC.

Oklahoma Christian tied the game at 1-1 in the fourth inning when Tyler Gipson touched home on a Zac Coshow sacrifice. Then in the sixth inning, the Eagles rallied for four runs to assume a 5-2 advantage.

Coshow doubled in Gipson to tie the game at 2-2 before Ryan Harper drove in the go-ahead score with an infield hit to the shortstop. Josh Balch then scored on a wild pitch, and Quaid Johns made it home a miscue by the shortstop to put the Eagles ahead by three runs.

But USAO starting pitcher Ryan Duke (3-1) held OC scoreless through the final three innings, and the Drovers pushed three runs across in the seventh inning to tie the game at 5-5. USAO got a leadoff double from Daniel Wood to start the eighth, then Wood's courtesy runner Shea Hall scored on Ylda's sac fly for the go-ahead run.

Starter Ryan Morris kept OC in the game by giving up only two runs in the first six frames. He went all eight innings and struck out five while surrendering six runs (three earned). The sophomore right-hander falls to 2-1 on the year.

Harper was the only Eagle with two hits, going 2-for-4 with a RBI. Coshow finished 1-for-3 with a run scored and two driven in. The Drovers outhit the Eagles 9-6, and OC committed four errors to USAO's two.

The Eagles continue SAC play when they open a three-game set against Southern Nazarene (Okla.) on March 5. The nine-inning game is scheduled for 4:30 at Dobson Field. OC and SNU will play a doubleheader in Bethany on March 7 at 1 p.m.

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