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Anthony Alvarez
7
Central Oklahoma UCO 28-12, 20-6 MIAA
17
Winner Emporia State ESU 20-16, 11-12 MIAA
Central Oklahoma UCO
28-12, 20-6 MIAA
7
Final
17
Emporia State ESU
20-16, 11-12 MIAA
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Central Oklahoma UCO 0 3 0 0 0 1 3 0 7 12 1
Emporia State ESU 8 0 0 0 1 3 3 2 17 19 0

W: Holman,S. (4-2) L: Lemoine, Ryan (7-2)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Chris Brannick

Bronchos Downed In Emporia

EMPORIA, Kan. - The University of Central Oklahoma baseball team opened a three-game Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association series at Emporia State with a 17-7 loss Sunday afternoon.

The Bronchos drop to 28-12 with the loss and are now 20-6 in league play. The teams will play a doubleheader Monday beginning at noon to finish the series. Weather pushed the games back from the originally scheduled Friday-Saturday-Sunday series.

"We let them have too much too early," UCO head baseball coach John Martin said. "You can't give up big innings like we did today and especially in the first inning. That sets the tone for the game and we weren't able to recover. We have to come back and be ready for tomorrow."

Ryan Lemoine got the start for the Bronchos and it was one he'd soon like to forget. Lemoine gave up eight runs on seven hits and a walk in the bottom of the first.

UCO answered back in the top of the second, scoring three runs to shorten the Hornet lead. Anthony Alvarez doubled down the right field line to score Kyle Miskovsky and Xavier Freeman. Caleb Peters scored the third run of the inning on a Jake Dyer groundout. 

Peters scored again in the top of the sixth. After Emporia added a run to its lead in the fifth, Justin Brown hit a sacrifice-fly to score Peters and make it 9-4.

Lemoine was done after five. He threw five full innings, allowing nine runs on 10 hits. The senior righty struck out three and walked just one batter.

Connor Sweeney replaced Lemoine to start the bottom of the sixth inning, and had a very similar start to the day. Sweeney gave up three runs on four hits in his only inning of work.

Central, trailing 12-4 in the seventh though, kept pushing back. Freeman scored Dayne Sommer with an RBI-double to left field, and Alvarez got his third RBI of the day with a single to score Glenn Reeves. Brown then scored Freeman with another single to make it 12-7 at the stretch.

But a similar situation followed. Landon Bond came on to relieve Sweeney and he gave up two unearned runs. Tabor Charles also gave up a run and Emporia State had scored three runs in both the sixth and seventh innings to go up 15-7.

Drake Harper pitched the eighth, and allowed one run on a wild pitch and another on an bases-loaded RBI-single that put Emporia up 17-7 and gave the Hornets the run-rule victory.

Alvarez led the way for the Broncho offense Sunday, going 3-for-4 with a double and three RBIs. Sommer, Reeves, and Freeman each added two hits for Central.

Game 2 Monday is set for a noon first pitch. Central will wrap up an eight-game road trip Tuesday in Joplin, Mo. when the Bronchos visit Missouri Southern.
 
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