OKLAHOMA CITY (April 3, 2021) – The way Oklahoma Christian has been slamming home runs recently, a six-run deficit in the fourth inning on Saturday afternoon against Cameron hardly seemed insurmountable.

Sure enough, the baseballs off the Eagles' bats kept flying over the fence at a rate high enough to lift them to a 12-9 win over the Aggies at Dobson Field, giving OC its second straight series sweep and extending its winning streak to six games – its longest since early in the 2019 season, when OC also won six straight.

The Eagles hit four home runs Saturday – two by Coleton Hinkle and one each by Blake Empkey and Michael DiFiore – to raise their series total against Cameron (4-18, 4-14 Lone Star Conference) to 12. DiFiore, a freshman from Lucas, Texas, hit four of them against the Aggies and has hit seven of his league-leading 12 dingers during the last two weeks.

With the sweep, OC (14-9, 13-8) moved into a tie for fourth place in the LSC standings with Texas A&M-Kingsville.

OC trailed Cameron in all three games this weekend. The Aggies, who hit five home runs in the game, used five unearned runs in the fourth inning – two on a homer by Julian Macias and three on a homer by Erik Ohman – to take a 7-1 lead.

The Eagles began their comeback in the fifth, when Empkey hit a two-run homer – his second longball of the series – and DiFiore followed with a solo shot to pull OC within 8-5. Jayce Clem's RBI double in the sixth extended Cameron's lead to 9-5, but the Eagles answered with an unearned run in the bottom of the inning.

Jordan Harrison's solo homer in the seventh again gave the Aggies a four-run advantage, but OC jumped on three Cameron relievers for seven runs in the bottom of the inning. Hinkle – who had hit a leadoff homer in the second inning – contributed a three-run shot during the seventh-inning outburst that pulled OC within 9-8.

Cameron reliever Kalen Haynes (0-1) hit Empkey with a pitch with the bases loaded to tie the game, then walked DiFiore to force in another run that put OC ahead for the first time. The Eagles tacked on two more runs to make it 12-9. The pitching beneficiary of the rally was Robbie Suhr (1-0).

Three other relievers – Brent McDonald, Bob Britton and Noah Bates – combined to limit the Aggies to two hits over the final two innings, with Bates earning his third save of the season. OC starter Julien Ly recorded a career-high 10 strikeouts in six innings and allowed only three earned runs.

OC will close its season-long 10-game homestand on Tuesday at 6 p.m. against nonconference rival Central Oklahoma before returning to LSC play in Odessa, Texas, on Friday against Texas-Permian Basin.