Box Scores: Game 1 / Game 2
TULSA, Okla. – While Oral Roberts scored 15 runs on the day to sweep a doubleheader from Purdue baseball and extend ORU's home win streak to 15 consecutive games, it felt like a pair of two-out, run-scoring hits were the most significant game-changing moments of a chilly Friday.
The Golden Eagles (5-3) won the series opener 5-1 and took the nightcap 10-4, scoring first in both games. The Boilermakers (1-8) have held the lead in just one of their last 43 innings played dating back to Feb. 22, getting outscored 24-9 during that stretch.
Isaac Coffey hit a two-out, three-run homer in the fourth inning of game 1. Riley Keizor delivered a two-out, two-run single in the first inning of game 2. Both hits came with two strikes. Those were the two big blows that loomed as the game-changing swings.
Oral Roberts hit two home runs off Dalton Parker (0-2) in five innings after the junior had allowed only one long ball over 78 2/3 career innings entering the day. It was a 1-0 game when Coffey went deep to left field. The home team scored four of its five runs on homers.
In the nightcap, Andrew Bohm (0-1) was one strike away from stranding runners at second and third in a scoreless first inning. Bohm had struck out ORU's No. 3 and 4 hitters with both runners in scoring position, but Keizor hit a line drive back through the box to extend the frame. The Golden Eagles went on to score four times, with Coffey delivering a two-run double down the left field line.
Oral Roberts received a pair of impressive pitching performances. Game 1 starter Josh McMinn (2-1) finished one out shy of a complete game, scattering six singles and keeping the Boilermakers off the scoreboard until the seventh inning. Only a line shot off McMinn's leg direct from the bat of Johnny Sage with two outs in the ninth inning kept the senior from finishing the game. McMinn retired 12 of the first 13 batters he faced and worked four 1-2-3 innings. He struck out six and did not issue a walk.
Colton Larkins (1-0) retired all 11 batters he faced over 3 2/3 innings of relief in the nightcap. The left-hander helped shift the momentum back into ORU's favor after Purdue scored three times in the fifth inning to trim its deficit to 8-4.
Justin Fugitt connected for a pair of opposite-field doubles and scored twice in game 2. The sophomore started both games at first base, marking the first time he was in the starting lineup as a Boilermaker.
Tyler Powers made nifty defensive plays as both a shortstop and second baseman. But the Purdue infield finally committed an error on a ball in play this season. Bohm was able to pitch over consecutive miscues in the third inning of game 2 by striking out the side in the frame. Six of the nine outs Bohm recorded over his three plus innings came via the strikeout.
Kyle Wade regrouped after a rocky start to his relief outing in game 1, retiring eight of the final nine batters he faced over three innings of one-run ball. Fellow freshman Austin Peterson struck out five over four innings for the second weekend in a row, but also surrendered a pair of solo home runs. The Golden Eagles went deep to left, center and right field over the course of their four-homer day.
The series finale is slated for Saturday at 1 p.m. ET.
TULSA, Okla. – While Oral Roberts scored 15 runs on the day to sweep a doubleheader from Purdue baseball and extend ORU's home win streak to 15 consecutive games, it felt like a pair of two-out, run-scoring hits were the most significant game-changing moments of a chilly Friday.
The Golden Eagles (5-3) won the series opener 5-1 and took the nightcap 10-4, scoring first in both games. The Boilermakers (1-8) have held the lead in just one of their last 43 innings played dating back to Feb. 22, getting outscored 24-9 during that stretch.
Isaac Coffey hit a two-out, three-run homer in the fourth inning of game 1. Riley Keizor delivered a two-out, two-run single in the first inning of game 2. Both hits came with two strikes. Those were the two big blows that loomed as the game-changing swings.
Oral Roberts hit two home runs off Dalton Parker (0-2) in five innings after the junior had allowed only one long ball over 78 2/3 career innings entering the day. It was a 1-0 game when Coffey went deep to left field. The home team scored four of its five runs on homers.
In the nightcap, Andrew Bohm (0-1) was one strike away from stranding runners at second and third in a scoreless first inning. Bohm had struck out ORU's No. 3 and 4 hitters with both runners in scoring position, but Keizor hit a line drive back through the box to extend the frame. The Golden Eagles went on to score four times, with Coffey delivering a two-run double down the left field line.
Oral Roberts received a pair of impressive pitching performances. Game 1 starter Josh McMinn (2-1) finished one out shy of a complete game, scattering six singles and keeping the Boilermakers off the scoreboard until the seventh inning. Only a line shot off McMinn's leg direct from the bat of Johnny Sage with two outs in the ninth inning kept the senior from finishing the game. McMinn retired 12 of the first 13 batters he faced and worked four 1-2-3 innings. He struck out six and did not issue a walk.
Colton Larkins (1-0) retired all 11 batters he faced over 3 2/3 innings of relief in the nightcap. The left-hander helped shift the momentum back into ORU's favor after Purdue scored three times in the fifth inning to trim its deficit to 8-4.
Justin Fugitt connected for a pair of opposite-field doubles and scored twice in game 2. The sophomore started both games at first base, marking the first time he was in the starting lineup as a Boilermaker.
Tyler Powers made nifty defensive plays as both a shortstop and second baseman. But the Purdue infield finally committed an error on a ball in play this season. Bohm was able to pitch over consecutive miscues in the third inning of game 2 by striking out the side in the frame. Six of the nine outs Bohm recorded over his three plus innings came via the strikeout.
Kyle Wade regrouped after a rocky start to his relief outing in game 1, retiring eight of the final nine batters he faced over three innings of one-run ball. Fellow freshman Austin Peterson struck out five over four innings for the second weekend in a row, but also surrendered a pair of solo home runs. The Golden Eagles went deep to left, center and right field over the course of their four-homer day.
The series finale is slated for Saturday at 1 p.m. ET.