OKLAHOMA CITY (April 9, 2021) – With a big doubleheader looming on Sunday, Oklahoma Christian could have been tempted to overlook the winless Eastern New Mexico softball team the 13th-ranked Eagles faced on Friday.

OC's coaches kept the team focused on the task at hand, though, and it showed as the Eagles rolled to a pair of wins, beating the Greyhounds 12-0 and 8-1 at Tom Heath Field. Brianna Robinson and Brooklin Bain each hit a pair of homers, Kylie Janzen drove in four runs and five OC pitchers combined for 16 strikeouts in the doubleheader.

With the sweep, OC (25-5, 15-3 Lone Star Conference) moved into sole possession of second place in the league standings. The Eagles trail only No. 5 Texas-Tyler, which has a 16-1 league mark but is ineligible for the postseason, as it's in the final season of transition into NCAA Division II. The LSC regular-season champion – or the runner-up if Texas-Tyler is the champ – will host the league's postseason tournament.

The Eagles, who have won eight straight games, will face another LSC contender on Sunday at noon when they host No. 10 West Texas A&M.

OC batted around in each of the first two innings in the opener against Eastern New Mexico (0-15, 0-14). In the first inning, Bain led off with a solo home run over the right-field fence and Robinson followed with a grand slam to right-center field off ENMU pitcher Maite Bustillos (0-2) to make it 5-0.

The Eagles added five more runs in the second inning, with Robinson delivering a two-run homer to right field. (She nearly had a third home run, sending a deep drive to left field foul before drawing a third-inning walk, and then went 2-for-3 in the second game.)

Meanwhile, Division II's leader in pitching wins, OC sophomore right-hander Kali Crandall (16-1), recorded her first seven outs by strikeout and had eight Ks in her four innings of work while allowing only a pair of singles. Lauren King relieved Crandall in the fifth and struck out the side, ending a game that took only 78 minutes.

The Greyhounds scratched out a run in the first inning of the second game against OC starter Bailey Turner (6-3) but left the bases loaded. OC scored in each of its six at-bats, producing one run in the first four innings and two runs in the fifth and sixth.

Karrah Dean's solo home run to left field in the second off Jordan Bowman (0-2) put OC ahead for good at 2-1. Janzen drove in runs with singles in the first, third and fifth innings. In the sixth, Bain's looper eluded a diving Eastern New Mexico centerfielder Azalea Martinez and rolled all the way to the wall, giving the speedy Bain time to circle the bases for an inside-the-park home run that made it 8-1.

Turner pitched four innings for the Eagles, with Lindsey Stoeckel throwing two perfect innings and Bain finishing off the game by escaping a bases-loaded, no-outs jam without allowing a run in the seventh.