ORU wins; OU, OSU each snare two - TW 2/22/09

[Bogus Smith]

ORU wins; OU, OSU each snare two

by: Staff and Wire Reports

Chris Elder had two hits, including a two-run home run, during an eight-run sixth-inning outburst for Oral Roberts as the Golden Eagles beat Western Michigan 12-3 on Saturday at J.L. Johnson Stadium.

Oral Roberts (2-0) also picked up home runs from Michael Notaro and P.J. Sequeira and took advantage of four errors by Western Illinois (0-2).

Two of those errors and a hit batsman fueled Oral Roberts' big sixth inning, which came against relievers John Navage and Tim Mowry.

ORAL ROBERTS 12, WESTERN MICHIGAN 3

W. Michigan  020 000 100 —  3 8 4

Oral Roberts 012 008 01x — 12 9 1

Stroud, Navage (6), Mowry (6), Hall (7) and Hess; Sullivan, Dunn (7) and Furnanek, Burch.

W: Sullivan (1-0).

L: Stroud (0-1).

HR: WM, Galbraith (1); ORU, Notaro (1), Sequeira (1), Elder (1)

Sooners sweep Western Illinois: Matt Harughty's third career home run, a grand slam in the second inning, helped Oklahoma complete a doubleheader sweep of Western Illinois with a 15-4 win at Norman.

The Sooners (3-0) won the first game 6-1. They have outscored the Leathernecks 38-7 in this series.

In the second game, Harughty went 3-for-4 with five RBIs, with Tyler Ogle and Ross Hubbard contributing two RBIs each for the Sooners.

OKLAHOMA 6-15, WESTERN ILLINOIS 1-4

FIRST GAME

Western Illinois 001 000 000 — 1 5 2

Oklahoma        000 102 30x — 6 8 2

Sneegas, Lingle (6), Eden (7) and Stewart; Hubbard, Rocha (7), Duke (9) and Wise.

W: Hubbard (1-0).

L: Sneegas (0-1).

SECOND GAME

Western Illinois 100 003 0 —  4  9 1

Oklahoma        152 052 x — 15 10 1

C.Fuchs, C.Stewart (4), C.Myers (5), R.Lingle (5) and D.Laidig; C.J.Blue, T.Sperring (6), K.Herren (7) and T.Ogle, B.Groth.

W: Blue (1-0).

L: Fuchs (0-1).

HR: WI, A.Hagins (1), OU, M.Harughty (1).

ORU Wins...

[MrsSmith]

Looks like the Tulsa World was mixing up Western Illinois and Western Michigan - I have been too.