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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (March 14, 2008) – The Oklahoma Christian baseball team dropped two games to No. 15 Wayland Baptist (Texas) Friday.

The Eagles fell to 10-11-1 overall and 3-11 in the Sooner Athletic Conferences with the home setbacks.

Wayland Baptist's bats were alive in a 17-0 thumping in game one of the three-game series which concludes on Saturday at 1 p.m.

Brett Cook led off the game with a home run, then four-straight Pioneers reached base. WBU finished the inning with eight runs on five hits.

Riley Jones (3-2) kept the Pioneers off the board in the next two frames, before a five-run fourth and four-run fifth completed the run-rule WBU win.

The Eagles managed just four hits in the loss, two coming from second baseman Josh Balch (2-for-2).

OC jumped out to a 2-0 lead in game two. Balch singled home Jeff Davis before Tyler Gipson stepped on home plate thanks to an error from WBU pitcher Gary Gates.

WBU responded with five unanswered scores in the second and third innings to claim a 5-3 the lead.

The Eagles kept it close with a solo shot from Chance Nichols in the fifth, and a fifth-inning two-run homer from Balch that cut the deficit to 6-5.

But the Pioneers scored twice more in the sixth, then once in the seventh, to go on top for good.

Ryan Morris (0-3) suffered the loss. The freshman struck out five on the day.

Balch ended game two 2-for-4 with three driven in. The Ada, Okla., product was 4-for-6 on the day.

Nichols was 3-for-3 with his sixth long ball of the season.