Box score

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (Feb. 29, 2008) – The Oklahoma Christian baseball team dropped a 19-3 decision to the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma on Friday afternoon at Dobson Field.

The loss snapped OC's four-game win streak and dropped its overall record to 5-6-1 and 0-6 in the Sooner Athletic Conference.

OC and USAO will square off again tomorrow in a 1 p.m. doubleheader in Chickasha, Okla.

The Drovers led 6-0 through 2.5 innings after putting two runs on the board in each of the first three frames.

Nick Hollrah led off the bottom of the third with a double into leftfield, but the Eagles went down in order from there and stranded Hollrah at third base.

Two more USAO runners crossed home in the fourth before Tyler Sutton gave way to Bret Rodgers with no outs in the inning.

Six straight Drovers reached base, then Andrew Brock got out of the jam with a fly out to right field and groundout to third.

USAO led 13-0 through four full innings of play, then tacked on another three runs to take a 16-0 edge through 5.5.

In the home half of the sixth, Jordan Price started a two-out rally with a line-drive single over the shortstop's head.

The next batter was Ray Long who reached on an error by the third baseman, then Jeff Davis plated both base runners with a towering double to the centerfield fence. Price and Long scored easily to make it 16-2.

Austin Reid pinch ran for Davis and found his way home when Josh Balch singled through the right side to cut USAO's lead to 16-3.

But three Drover runs in the seventh sealed the run-rule victory.

Davis was 1-for-3 with the two RBI's, while Balch was 1-for-3 with a single run driven in.

Hollrah (1-for-2), Price (1-for-4) and Chris Miller (1-for-1) each recorded hits.

USAO pounded out 20 hits. Cody Hines was 3-for-3 with two runs scored and two RBI's. 11 Drovers had at least one hit in the game.