GOLDEN, Colo. (April 1, 2019) – After a week at No. 7, Oklahoma Christian moved back up to No. 6 in the South Central Region rankings released Monday by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association.

The Eagles have been ranked sixth or seventh in six of the seven regular-season region polls in 2019. Three sports information directors from each of the region's three leagues – the Heartland, Lone Star and Rocky Mountain Athletic Conferences – vote in the poll. OC wasn't listed in the preseason poll.

Last week, OC won 8-5 at Central Oklahoma – giving them a season series win over the Bronchos for the first time since the Eagles moved into NCAA Division II – then took two of three games from visiting Texas A&M International. OC beat TAMIU 7-5 in the opener and fell 11-9 before rebounding to win the series finale 9-3 to improve to 20-8 on the season.

After a home game Tuesday against archrival Southern Nazarene, the Eagles will host Lubbock Christian (Texas), which rose a spot to No. 4 in this week's region poll, for a key Heartland series on Friday and Saturday.

Colorado Mesa (25-5) remained a unanimous No. 1 in the poll, with 90 points. Angelo State (Texas) (25-7) was second with 79 points after splitting a four-game series at No. 3 West Texas A&M (24-8). West Texas A&M had 66 points, followed by Lubbock Christian (23-8) with 64 points and Dixie State (Utah) (22-8) was fifth with 50 points.

OC received 37 points, followed by Metro State (Colo.) (20-7) with 35 points, Colorado Mines (19-8) with 28 points, Texas A&M-Kingsville (20-11) with 27 points and Colorado-Colorado Springs (18-12) with 12 points.