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Korey Floyd
Korey Floyd
6
Fort Hays State FHSU 6-10, 0-5 MIAA
13
Winner Central Oklahoma UCO 12-2, 4-1 MIAA
Fort Hays State FHSU
6-10, 0-5 MIAA
6
Final
13
Central Oklahoma UCO
12-2, 4-1 MIAA
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Fort Hays State FHSU 3 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 6 4 1
Central Oklahoma UCO 1 1 0 0 3 4 1 3 X 13 15 1

W: Wusterbarth, Ben (1-0) L: Palmer,Easton (1-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Bronchos Rally Past Fort Hays State

EDMOND (March 4) – Ben Wusterbarth shut down Fort Hays State with his longest pitching stint of the season and Central Oklahoma's offense came alive down the stretch to carry the Bronchos to a 13-6 Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association victory Saturday afternoon at Wendell Simmons Field.
 
UCO overcame a 6-2 deficit, scoring 11 unanswered runs over the final five innings as Wusterbarth dominated the Tigers after coming on in the fifth.  The junior right-hander threw four no-hit innings, striking out four and walking one to earn his first win of the season before Drake Harper pitched a perfect ninth to close out the game.
 
Jon Kamies led a 15-hit offensive assault against six FHSU pitchers with a 3-for-5 performance at the plate.  Korey Floyd, Dayne Sommer, Glenn Reeves and Brenton Washausen had two hits apiece.
 
The Bronchos improved to 12-2 on the season and 4-1 in the league while staying unbeaten (5-0) at home.  UCO goes for a sweep of the three-game series Sunday at noon.
 
"We struggled to get going at the start of the game, but I was proud of the way we stayed patient and didn't get frustrated," head coach John Martin said.  "Ben kept us in the game and our bats finally came alive.  We showed some grit and it was a good comeback win."
 
The Tigers managed just four hits on the day, but took advantage of several walks, a couple of hit batters and a key error to take a 6-2 lead in the top of the fifth before Wusterbarth came on to get UCO out of the inning.
 
The Bronchos began their rally in the bottom of that frame, with back-to-back singles by Caleb Peters and Kamies getting things started.  Washausen's hard-hit single up the middle scored Peters and Anthony Alvarez's sacrifice bunt advanced the runners before a wild pitch and Reeves' RBI groundout made it 6-5.
 
UCO moved in front to stay with a four-run volley in the sixth.
 
Jake Dyer banged a double off the center field wall to ignite the outburst and Floyd walked, with Kamies' bloop single to center field plating Dyer to tie it.  Washausen walked to load the bases and a wild pitch allowed Floyd to score the go-ahead run, with Sommer's two-out, two-run double down the left field line pushing the lead to 9-6.
 
Floyd made it 10-6 in the seventh with his fourth home run of the season, this one a solo bomb to left field on the first pitch he saw.  UCO put the game away with three runs in the eighth, getting a two-run single from Reeves and an RBI base hit from Floyd.
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