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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (April 1, 2008) – The Oklahoma Christian University baseball team did its best Jekyll-and-Hyde impression on Tuesday with a two-game split against Hillsdale Free Will Baptist College (Okla.) at Dobson Field.

The Eagles rebounded from a 12-4 defeat in the first game to score a 15-11 win in game two. OC is now 12-20-1 in the school's first baseball season since 2001.

OC tallied 15 hits and capitalized off seven HBC errors to take the second game.

A seven-run fourth was the Eagles' crushing blow. The runs would be needed though after the Saints outscored OC 8-1 over the final three innings.

In the fourth, HBC committed four errors to go with seven OC hits. Quaid Johns delivered the first runs with a bases-loaded single to score Tyler Gipson and Jeff Davis. Later in the inning, Jordan Price brought another pair in with one of his three hits in the game.

OC led 14-3 when the dust cleared. The Eagles tacked on another run in the fifth on a Chris Burshek double, but HBC cut its deficit down to 15-9 thanks to three-run outputs in the fifth and sixth.

In the seventh, Stephen Sutton got out of a bases-loaded jam with a groundout to short to end the game.

In one of the wilder games OC has played all season, five players had multi-hit showings.

Price was 3-for-5 with three RBIs and two runs scored. Burshek finished 3-for-3 with four driven in and two scored.

Davis (2-for-3), Gipson (2-for-4) and Johns (2-for-3) all reached the two-hit plateau.

With pitching coming at a premium, regular catcher/designated hitter Davis (1-0) picked up the win after relieving starter John Ihle in the fifth inning. Making his first collegiate appearance, the freshman from Edmond, Okla., went one inning and allowed one run on three hits.

In the first game, OC was done in by a six-run HBC sixth inning.

The Eagles held an early 1-0 lead after Price was hit by a pitch, then scored on an error.

But the Saints outscored the Eagles 11-1 over the next 5.5 innings.

OC got one back in the fourth when Ray Long shot an RBI double down the left-field line to score Chance Nichols.

After the Saints' big sixth frame, the Eagles scored twice in their half on a fielder's choice RBI by Josh Balch and another HBC error.

Long's 2-for-4 output was OC's lone multi-hit performance in the first game. The center fielder drove in a run and scored another.

The Eagles resume Sooner Athletic Conference play at home on Thursday against Oklahoma Baptist. The Eagles and Bison will play twinbill beginning at 2 p.m.

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