EDMOND, Okla. - In the second doubleheader of the season between the NFCA top-15 foes, No. 12 Oklahoma Christian fell to No. 5 West Texas A&M Saturday afternoon, 6-1 and 5-3.
Kallie Rupp continued her elite play, recording her second three-hit game of the weekend in game two against the Lady Buffs, rattling off three RBI across her three hits, including her 12th double of the season. In game two against Eastern New Mexico, Rupp hit her 10th and 11th home run of the season, sitting two shy of tying the single-season program record for home runs.
Danae Lopez extended her hitting streak to seven games for the longest current streak on the team after being the only Eagle to record a base-knock in both ends of Saturday's twin bill. Lopez is second on the team in on-base percentage at .483 behind
Maci George at .494.
No. 12 Oklahoma Christian (33-10, 25-7 LSC) has its second game against No. 18 Central Oklahoma due up when it takes the short drive up north to Gerry Pinkston Stadium Tuesday, Apr. 14 at 5 p.m.Â
Game One: No. 5 West Texas A&M 6, No. 12 Oklahoma Christian 1
Both starting pitchers worked three-up, three-down innings in the first before West Texas A&M plated two in the second off three hits. Jill DIckson did not allow a hit over the next two innings, but OC was unable to do anything with the two hits it got over the next two innings to keep WT's two-run lead intact.
The Lady Buffs added four more runs in the fifth with a two-out grand slam after consecutive free bases allowed by Dickson. The Eagle offense claimed just one more hit prior to the seventh, which is when
Marti Yaerger put the maroon-and-gray on the board with her fourth home run of the season to make the score 6-1.
Game Two: No. 5 West Texas A&M 5, No. 12 Oklahoma Christian 3
West Texas opened with its second 2-0 lead of the day before OC got on the board. An RBI-double from Rupp cut the deficit to one, 2-1, before WT immediately grew the lead back to three in the top of the second, 4-1.
Neither team saw a runner get past second base over the next three innings before Rupp once again came through in the bottom of the fifth with a two-RBI single to once again bring the Eagles within one, 4-3. After a scoreless top of the sixth, the maroon-and-gray put runners on second and third with just one out, but were unable to bring them home as the one-run deficit remained.
A lead-off home run in the seventh added an insurance run for the Lady Buffs before the game-tying run was left at the plate in the bottom of the seventh before West Texas A&M took the season's fourth meeting, 5-3.